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Change Hair Color With Photoshop
Change_hair_color_easily80x80 This tutorial will show you how to change the hair color easily with Photoshop. The effect looks natural and beautiful but very easy to achieve!

Step 1: First open the photo you want to make this effect on. In this tutorial I use the photo below:

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Get the full size photo here

Before getting started, you should make here skin smoother by going to Filter>Blur>Surface Blur and use these settings:

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Step 2: Press D and X to reset and swap your foreground and background colors. Enter the Quick Mask Mode (Q) and use a soft brush to color some parts of her hair

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Then exit the Quick Mask mode. Now you can see there are 2 areas: selected area and unselected area as below. The area that we painted on is now turn into unselected area

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Step 3: Press Ctrl-Shift-I to invert the selection areas

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Step 4: Press Ctrl-J to create a new layer with the selected area duplicated so that we can process it as we want

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Step 5: Go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation (Ctrl-U) to bring up the Hue/Saturation box, adjust sliders to achieve the color you want

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Step 6: We should make it smoother and more natural so go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. This tool makes the edges' hair become smoother

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Step 7: Finally change the Blending mode of this layer to Soft Light instead of Normal. It looks cooler a bit!

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This is the end of this tutorial. In fact, this is not a new method but it is really cool and impressive! Hope you enjoy this tutorial!



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Comments
whatever 01-14-2009
There is no layer surface blur in blur options of filter

what are you trying to explain then ???????????????
:(
flana 02-16-2009
very good
lope 03-02-2009
lovelyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Navanath 03-10-2009
very nice.
Thanks
marie 04-02-2009
nice one
mahendar india 05-23-2009
not bad.
Rebecca 05-28-2009
Wow, I love the way that works... :D
deja 10-23-2009
wow very cool
me 10-31-2009
tnx.. thats tutorial is great
Johhny 11-06-2009
I think it is cool
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