Photoshop Cs2 Hair Color Tutorial

You can make someone's hair any color of the spectrum in Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for enhancing or adjusting digital photography. The program blurs the line between imagination and reality. With a vast range of capabilities, Photoshop makes smaller aesthetic adjustments a quick and simple process. Changing someone's hair color is one such adjustment, utilizing Photoshop's selection tools and blending options.

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Adobe Photoshop software
• Digital image(s) with hair

Instructions

1. Open the image file with the hair you want to recolor by opening Photoshop and selecting "File > Open" from the application menu.

2. Pick one of the selection tools ("Quick Selection," "Magic Wand," "Magnetic Lasso") or the "Pen Tool" from the Tools Panel at the left of your screen. Make a selection of the hair you want to recolor. Use a small brush size (5 pixels or smaller) if you use the "Quick Selection Tool." Right-click ("Ctrl" + click on a Mac) inside the path and select "Make Selection" if you use the "Pen Tool."

3. Click on the "Layers" palette at the right of your screen and select the "Create a new layer" icon, just left of the trash can icon, at the bottom of the palette.

4. Select "Edit > Fill" from the application menu. Set the "Use" drop-down menu to "Color" and choose the color you want the hair to be in the color picker dialogue box. Click "OK." You should see a solid block of the color you selected over the area of the hair you selected.

5. Return to the "Layers" palette and set the blend mode drop-down menu, at the upper left-hand corner of the palette, to "Color." This will restore the shading and texture of the hair, while leaving the new color intact.

6. Select "File > Save As" and create a name and save location for your recolored hair image.

References

• Adobe Photoshop: Select with the Quick Selection tool
• Adobe Photoshop: List of blending modes

Resources

• Adobe Photoshop: Draw curves with the Pen tool