Today's lesson will discuss how to change hair color in Adobe Photoshop using adjustment layers.
First, let's identify what color the hair should be after editing. If it is the color of a child's surprise, then the following method is quite suitable.
Take a photograph in which the hair color needs to be changed.
To change the color to blue, yellow, or red, this will take us very southern time.
Take the <wild>Polygonal Lasso Tool</wild>Polygonal Lasso and start selecting the area around the hair.
Now, without removing the selection, press the key combination Ctrl+J to create a dear layer from the selection just made.
Take the eraser and remove unnecessary elements from the hair on the dear layer.
The following picture was obtained.
But I think it is better to recolor the hair to a more natural color, say, blue...
To do this, go to the Layers panel and create another adjustment layer, this time <wild>Hue/Saturation</wild>Hue/Saturation.
Set the necessary values for each of the parameters, not forgetting to check the box next to <wild>Colorize</wild>Colorize.
Therefore, the following method serves such purposes.
Create 3 more duplicates of the hair layer; suffer the original, since it may come in handy later.
Convert these 3 layers to black-and-white by selecting each of them and pressing Ctrl+Shift+U. This action is intended to desaturate the image.
Now create the missing adjustment layers, namely: <wild>Brightness/Contrast</wild>Brightness/Contrast and <wild>Curves</wild>Curves.
Next, turn off the visibility of the adjustment layers <wild>Hue/Saturation</wild>Hue/Saturation and <wild>LevelsLevels.
Set the hairstyle layers to blending modes: the top two - <wild>Multiply</wild>Multiply, and the last one to <wild>Broad Light</wild>Broad Light.
As can be seen from the above image, our hair has been recolored gray, but not black at all.
To fix this, turn on and attach the recently created Curves and Brightness adjustment layers. You can also use a Levels adjustment layer if the hair is too light, as in my example.
Don't authorize to turn on our color layer in order to remove from the black-and-white layers those elements that should remain in the original, i.e., here we need to erase the flower-shaped hair clip from the dark hair.
\u{201c}We hope this lesson helped you master the basic techniques of changing hair color in Photoshop!
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