changing color of hair?

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Oct 26, 2004
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Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko

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GT40
Oct 26, 2004
On 26 Oct 2004 04:13:32 -0700,
(Gaikokujin Kyofushso) wrote:

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What program are you trying to do this in?
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Gadgets
Oct 26, 2004
Maybe a dark brown soft-edged brush on color mode, low transparency, multiple strokes being careful to not stray ‘outside the lines’. Can get some more contrast into the hair by burning shadows and dodging highlights too…

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Kingdom
Oct 26, 2004
(Gaikokujin Kyofushso) wrote in
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Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko

in CS use the colour replacement tool

in v7 select area, copy to new layer, use Select menu > colour range, adjust the opacity.


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Frank ess
Oct 26, 2004
Gaikokujin Kyofushso wrote:
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko

On April 9, 2004 CreativePro showed an article that might be helpful: http://www.creativepro.com:80/story/feature/21155.html


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Harry Limey
Oct 26, 2004
There is a tutorial about adding colour to a black & white image here, but it may be useful for changing hair colour (you would presumably have to desaturate the selected hair first!!)
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=160986&print=1 There are also a wealth of other tutorials you may find useful?

Harry

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Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko


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jjs
Oct 26, 2004
"Gaikokujin Kyofushso" wrote in message
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). […]

Humm, turning a blond into a brunette or darker – sounds like another plug-in I should develop. I will call it "Adding Artificial Intelligence".
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Owamanga
Oct 26, 2004
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:50:24 -0500, "jjs" wrote:

"Gaikokujin Kyofushso" wrote in message
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). […]

Humm, turning a blond into a brunette or darker – sounds like another plug-in I should develop. I will call it "Adding Artificial Intelligence".

The name is too long, it’ll never sell. How about "IQ++" ?


Owamanga!
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Frank ess
Oct 26, 2004
Owamanga wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:50:24 -0500, "jjs" wrote:
"Gaikokujin Kyofushso" wrote in
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Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). […]

Humm, turning a blond into a brunette or darker – sounds like another plug-in I should develop. I will call it "Adding Artificial Intelligence".

The name is too long, it’ll never sell. How about "IQ++" ?

Let me know when you get "Couth++" working. I have a couple candidates in mind…


Frank ess
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Tom Nelson
Oct 26, 2004
Also check out http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html and click "Blondes Have More Fun"

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http://www.creativepro.com:80/story/feature/21155.html
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Neal
Oct 26, 2004
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:33:22 -0500, Tom Nelson
wrote:

Also check out http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html and click "Blondes Have More Fun"

That link isn’t there.
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Ced
Oct 26, 2004
Frank ess a exprimé avec précision :
Gaikokujin Kyofushso wrote:
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko

On April 9, 2004 CreativePro showed an article that might be helpful: http://www.creativepro.com:80/story/feature/21155.html

Nice trick, thank you




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Frank ess
Oct 26, 2004
Neal wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:33:22 -0500, Tom Nelson
wrote:

Also check out http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html and click "Blondes Have More Fun"

That link isn’t there.

Way down in the Tutorials choices.
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Leonard Lehew
Oct 29, 2004
On 26 Oct 2004 04:13:32 -0700,
(Gaikokujin Kyofushso) wrote:

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko
It is difficult to be very specific. This type of "adjustment" is feasible, but usually takes a bit of "playing around." Since you posted this to one of the photoshop groups, I’m assuming you are using that program.

The first task is to isolate the hair from the rest of the photo. There are quite a few ways to do this in Photoshop. My general approach would be to duplicate the image to a new layer and create a layer mask to hide everything on the new layer except the hair. Then I would change the hair color on the new layer.

Creating the mask will be the most challenging part. Again, there are a bunch of ways to approach this. The most successful will depend on the photo and perhaps your patience and skill.

As alternative, you might try duplicating the photo to a new layer and using the extraction filter to remove everything on the new layer except the hair. If that gets you pretty close, you can clean up the new layer using the history tool and eraser and then manipulate the hair color on the new layer.

Good luck,

Leonard
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templar
Oct 29, 2004
Simple make a mask to select just the hair, make sure the mask is made using a soft brush and then just use Hue/Saturation (Adjustment Layer) to choose a color. Now use a Curve (Adjusment Layer) to set the lighting. Finally Color Balance (Adjusment Layer) and set the color. Make sure all the Adjustment layers have the ‘hair’ mask. It’s as simple as that 🙂
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Ken Tough
Oct 30, 2004
Gaikokujin Kyofushso wrote:

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Taking a slightly lateral approach, can you take a different/new photo? If so, take him against a uniform colour background and it will be a snap to isolate him from the background. Then you can paste him on whatever you want.


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Mike Russell
Oct 30, 2004
Ken Tough wrote:
Gaikokujin Kyofushso wrote:

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to realisticly change the color of hair in a photo. I would like to change this guys light brown hair to dark black (like Asian). I have played around with selective color adjusting, masking, etc but can’t seem to get the right effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

There are two issues – the one you seem to be having problems with is the most common one, the masking. There are several techniques for dealing with this. If you haven’t tried the Extract tool, now is the time. There is a good tutorial at www.myjanee.com, and Dr Brown at
http://www.russellbrown.com also has a good video tutorial.

Another method that works well if you have a contrasting color behind the hair is to use either the a or b channel of Lab as a mask – use levels to see which of the two is better. For that matter, check all the channels: r,g,b,c,m,y,k,l,a, and b for the best mask, remembering that you have any number of cmyk channels depending on your gcr / ucr settings. The curvemeister demo is a fast source for these channels, using the copy channel command, which is 100% functional in the demo.

Another technique is to painstakingly paint the mask – this is done often for glossy ads, and although great skill is required, it remains the best, final, way to get a mask.

Once you have your mask, the second problem is getting realistic colors. Brown hair has warm highlights. Black hair, particularly Asian hair, has cold highlights. Getting this to look "realistic", as you say, is probably going to be even more difficult than the original mask, but requiring an aesthetic judgement rather than technical expertise.

Which is why some have suggested that you take a more direct approach of cloning hair from another image. Or pose someone with hair similar to what you want, pick a contrasting background, duplicate the lighting, and simply add the hair in a single operation. This seems like a lot of work, but in the end it will be easier, and yield a much more convincing result. —

Mike Russell
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