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Changing Hair Color in Pictures

Skill level:

Difficulty - 2/5

Tutorial Rating:

Rating - 4/5

Time Required:

Time Required Icon 0 hrs 20 mins
Colin C

Writer: Colin C

I don't do much since I get John to do my work.



So you want to try out new hair colors? Lets start!


Open up a photograph - I chose a beautiful Asian girl! =D



Choose a soft edge brush.



Press "Q" to enter in quick mask mode. Then mark the hair area with the brush. You do not have to be very accurate around the edges.



Press “Q” again to leave the quick mask mode.


Now we have a selection around the hair, however we need is the selection in the hair.


To do so, go to Select > Invert.



Now we dye the hair. Create a new Fill Layer by going to:


Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color


Under the basic properties of the new fill layer, change the mode to Soft Light, then click OK.


Next you pick the new hair color . For the example, I choose red.



And walla, done!


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There are 31 comments
mahan said on February 02, 2010 - 00:17
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tanx =XX

Rhiannan said on February 01, 2010 - 12:27
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I Donnt Gett Itt :\ How Do You Do It....

eve said on February 01, 2010 - 10:11
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can you change my hair to blonde?if a send u a picture of me with brown, choose one thatt isnt already edited

Sanne said on January 27, 2010 - 14:38
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I just don't understand the 'Q' think.. the quik mode??

louise said on January 25, 2010 - 14:33
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change colour of my hair

lya said on December 21, 2009 - 08:00
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i love this..

taylor said on December 12, 2009 - 22:56
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where do i go to do this

LUZ said on November 17, 2009 - 15:47
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ehy great job.. but i can do it.. can you edit one of mi picture cuz i want to see how i look with blood hair

ig said on November 11, 2009 - 02:18
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wow!great!nice tutorial i can now retouch my photos...hehehe

areialrenee said on November 10, 2009 - 23:43
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i dont get how to do this.. im trying to see what im gonna look like with blonde hair so i wanna edit one of my pictures...?

jess said on September 27, 2009 - 10:11
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well how do u do it then

Nanna said on August 11, 2009 - 06:18
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where can you get adobe photoshop for free?
And there be some problems with the hair color if you've already got stripes in it and want it to be colored a new color with out stripes?

Trend Man said on August 07, 2009 - 07:26
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Great. Thanks

Diptej Saner said on July 08, 2009 - 01:20
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This is very simple, it doesn't take 20 min, its a 10 min job. Thanx colin and john.

Doc said on July 07, 2009 - 02:25
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It's voila, not walla FFS

Sergio said on July 06, 2009 - 13:29
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amazing effects.... simply Mindblowing i really love now 2 play with photoshop

VINIT PRATAP SINH said on July 03, 2009 - 05:24
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very nice .. thankx

tinchoo said on July 02, 2009 - 13:16
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ponganlo en español la concha de la lora

photo retouching said on July 01, 2009 - 21:14
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Another great result. Couldn`t believe how short the tut was!

labaidai said on July 01, 2009 - 04:40
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You can use The gimp to do it. The Gimp is free and very powerful!

Colin C said on March 27, 2009 - 19:28
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For all those who wants to know which program.
All tutorials on this website will focus on Adobe Photoshop

Thanks!

Katy said on March 26, 2009 - 15:25
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Which website do you do this on?

Bonnie 09 said on March 15, 2009 - 07:50
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Can someone tell me what programme i need on my pc to do this
Thanks :-)

osk said on February 16, 2009 - 08:25
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perfect!!

cassandra said on February 07, 2009 - 05:27
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Can someone do it for me, please?:)

Kayleigh A. said on January 27, 2009 - 20:11
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cute

mizmee said on January 03, 2009 - 13:57
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ahh i was gonna highlight my hair red
its so pretty!! but they say red+black hair=long process >.

JOEAN said on January 02, 2009 - 20:18
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pretty simple. awesome!
thnx fer dis :)

adita said on August 11, 2008 - 11:09
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gracias
disculpa tienes algo de diseño de modas algún programa
por si las moscas.
att.
Adita Aldas.

wonderfull said on July 22, 2008 - 11:33
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WONDERFULL NICE JOB

Jade said on July 13, 2008 - 11:00
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ok

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