Tuesday, 8 October 2013

How to : Change Hair Colour


1. Open a file

(picture was taken from kantal0upe.tumblr.com/tagged/perf)

2. Click on the quick masque mode (or press Q on your keyboard)
 This button   and when you click it, it will turn in to this 

3. Select the brush toolor press B on your keyboard
4. Select the brush size as you want ( you can change it while you're painting it too) and paint the hair
   area. The selection area will be red


5. Then use an eraser tool (or press e on your keyboard) set up the eraser size and then  to         erase the unwanted part
 

6. Click the quick masque mode again () and then it will make a selection
7. Click Select > Inverse or  ctrl+shift+i (or command+shift+i on mac) to inverse the selection

8. Click this button  on the layer panel to create new layer 
9. select the hair colour you want on the foreground colour
10. Click Edit>Fill and choose foreground colour and press ok (or alt+delete for quick way)


11. Press ctrl+d (or command+d on mac) to deselect the selection

12. on the layer panel choose the effect to be hue or color

13. In this case, I choose color. you can also change the Opacity 
*tip* if you want to change the hair colour and don't want to redo everything click Image>Adjustment> Hue/Saturation or press ctrl+u on your keyboard and change things around!

14.you're done!
you can use this technique to experiment on hair colours before you actually dye your hair!







5 comments:

  1. Love your tutorials! They're really well done and easy to understand.

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  2. Your tutorial was not clear enough and I am now on stuck in a ceiling fan... But other than that great, straightforward tutorial I will soon be the best photoshop hair dyer in the world.

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    1. I'm a goat and this tutorial helped me feel like the woman i've always wanted to be. yeah. nice. good job. excellent. m8. should use this to teach photoshop in digital media 11.

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  3. With this tutorial I can make anyone look like Katy perry! really cool!

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