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Changing Hair Colour In Photoshop

This Instructable is for changing someones hair colour in Photoshop. Im not exactly sure if this will work in Paint Shop Pro but you can always try.

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Step 1Choosing your Photo

This is just a picture off the internet that i used.

When choosing a photo you must remember two things.

1: Pick a picture with the least amount stray hairs. The picture i picked does have stray hairs, but there close to her head so it doesn't matter as much.

2: The other thing you should keep in mind is to pick someone that has light hair ex.blonde. I think darker hair will work but not as good.

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34 comments

Nov 29, 2009. 12:30 PMChromatica says:

Sweet.

Nov 29, 2009. 11:51 AMLowney says:

This is great! So simple yet briliant outcome! This is surely worth 5*, not a common rating I give :P

Sep 21, 2009. 8:38 AMdafrimpster says:

IF you add an adjustment layer and use the mask you made you can change the hair to a different color easily. Non destructive editing....

Sep 10, 2009. 1:32 AMmisprecious says:

i also use this method but i think my way is much simpler. 1.open the picture 2.make a new layer 3.paint the hair on the layer white 4.on the layer select soft light 5.then go to image, adjustments, hue/saturation(ctrl-U) 6.click colourize then choose the colour you want. voila

Jul 29, 2009. 9:45 AMwatermelonhead says:

What I do (in gimp) is just select the hair and change the hue/ saturation.

Jul 29, 2009. 7:21 PMREA says:

yes. keep in mind that the lighter the hair colour, the "odder" it will look. my advice is change each hue one at a time rather than just the master hue.

Jul 30, 2009. 4:59 AMwatermelonhead says:

well, that's ok when I'm making my brother's hair green :D

Jul 30, 2009. 5:00 AMwatermelonhead says:

this isn't the best picture, though. I made it when i was a beginner.

Aug 5, 2009. 7:53 AMcher49_2005 says:

looks like he had to much to drink hehe and he is about to throw up hehe

Aug 5, 2009. 8:33 AMwatermelonhead says:

He was only like 16 :D

Aug 5, 2009. 2:20 PMREA says:

one night in Amsterdam perhaps?

Aug 6, 2009. 8:08 AMwatermelonhead says:

no, he's never been out of US

Jul 30, 2009. 11:36 AMREA says:

it looks like hes raidioactive. O_O

Jul 30, 2009. 1:31 PMwatermelonhead says:

LAWL! The raidoactive hair damaged his brain, obviously :D

Jul 30, 2009. 2:16 PMREA says:

that would explain why it looks as though hes doing something explicit to the guitar.

Jul 30, 2009. 2:19 PMwatermelonhead says:

No, not explicit. He's just tasting it.

Jul 30, 2009. 6:03 PMREA says:

thats not what i see...

Jul 31, 2009. 7:31 AMwatermelonhead says:

You are so immature :D

Jul 31, 2009. 9:45 AMREA says:

it takes someone mature to act immature. ^_

Jul 31, 2009. 10:31 AMwatermelonhead says:

O, whatever :D

Jul 31, 2009. 11:36 AMREA says:

lol 1_1

Aug 6, 2009. 12:45 AMThihabala says:

Nice!! Great guide line... I will try one

Jul 30, 2009. 5:57 PMaussie457 says:

this helped a lot, I've been trying to figure out how to quickmask forever and this is the only thing I've seen that actually gave the shortcut, thanks a ton

Jul 28, 2009. 8:08 PMWard_Nox says:

I Used to do this all the time i even took it a step further and discolored a fur coat to make it grey

Jul 28, 2009. 6:51 PMwhitepinoy says:

The way i have learned to do it is by using an added layer and in the Mode you are going to choose color and paint that layer with the desired color only in the desired area. This will leave all pixel data about the original picture unchanged and only the overlay with any added data.

Apr 14, 2009. 4:09 PMDorkfish92 says:

This works great on cars also. Instead of soft light, try Color Burn for cars. Nice Ible!

Apr 23, 2009. 4:57 PMBrandon555 (author) says:

Its a good way to find a colour that would look good on your car before you spend thousands on a paint job ;)

Jul 28, 2009. 3:52 PMChromatica says:

do you mean hundreds

Jul 28, 2009. 5:11 PM

benthekahn says:

You mean $75<br/><br/><a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Poor-Mans-Paint-Job-or...-How-to-paint-your-c/">http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Poor-Mans-Paint-Job-or...-How-to-paint-your-c/</a><br/>

Apr 5, 2009. 2:35 PMphotomarto says:

great work and very helpful

Apr 3, 2008. 11:14 AMburzvingion says:

Another option is to use the "Replace Color" dialog (Image -> Adjustments -> Replace Color), although this works best when the hair and skin don't have similar hues.

Apr 2, 2008. 6:37 PMBrandon555 (author) says:

Cool, Some times you gotta play around with the overlaying options until you find something that works. Thanks for the comments

Apr 2, 2008. 6:21 PMJakeTobak says:

You can do the same thing when coloring drawings. My friend is insane at drawing so one time I scanned a couple and colored them in with Photoshop. I think I might have used 'Multiply' as the overlay though.