OT: Hair colour in photoshop

[Anesthesia]

I have been messing around with photoshop (first time ever), using the quick mask dealy and layers to change the colour of my girlfriend's hair.

 

I was wondering how I can change her black hair to a sandy blonde colour, just for {censored}s and giggles.

 

What I have been doing is 'quickmasking' all of her hair, inversing the selection then adding a solid colour layer (soft light), but it looks pretty dodgy for brighter colours (most probably due to my lack of PS skill)

 

Any tips on what I can do to improve the result?

[rummy]

Select

Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation (ctrl +U)

 

Mess with the sliders on that with Colorize option checked.

[Anesthesia]

Select Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation (ctrl +U) Mess with the sliders on that with Colorize option checked.

 

i'll give it a go

[Goofball Jones]

 

I have been messing around with photoshop (first time ever), using the quick mask dealy and layers to change the colour of my girlfriend's hair. I was wondering how I can change her black hair to a sandy blonde colour, just for {censored}s and giggles. What I have been doing is 'quickmasking' all of her hair, inversing the selection then adding a solid colour layer (soft light), but it looks pretty dodgy for brighter colours (most probably due to my lack of PS skill) Any tips on what I can do to improve the result?

 

 

The problem you'll run into is that black hair usually doesn't have a ton of detail in it...like you would see in a photo of lighter colored hair. So when you try to lighten the color of dark hair, it usually comes out flat.

 

Try using the Curves. Peg down the 3/4 - shadow tones and then bring up the quarter and mid-tones to a lighter color. Try using it as an adjustment layer instead of directly on the image so you can play around with it.

 

EDIT: I'm an idiot. If it's black hair, there will hardly be any light or quarter tones in it, so adjusting that won't work that well. So in curves try this, in the highlight area, just bring up the hightlights from 0% to like 30% or so, but leave the shadow alone.

[thelurker]

You could mess with it for days or you could just tell her to go color it herself.:D:D

[SteveyDevey]

I've personally had an awful time trying to lighten hair like you're talking about.

 

For the reasons goofball mentioned, it's much easier to go darker than it is to lighten.

[Anesthesia]

For the reasons goofball mentioned, it's much easier to go darker than it is to lighten.

 

I thought this would be the case

[Mudbass]

 

I have been messing around with photoshop (first time ever), using the quick mask dealy and layers to change the colour of my girlfriend's hair.

 

 

Just hit the button on the upper right that says "New girlfriend".

[Anesthesia]

Just hit the button on the upper right that says "New girlfriend".

 

Ah, I was missing that one

[Jim-Bass]

get her a wig....and then you can dye the wig whenever you want.