Use the settings below to darken the image.Ĭlick on the mask of Curves and press CTRL + I to create an inverted layer mask. Now use a Curves adjustment to darken the image. As I said we’ll use the mask throughout the tutorial to preserve the skin color.
so after Reds choose Yellows to desaturate the yellow color.Īgain use the mask of the Hue/Saturation to bring back the skin color by painting on it using a black brush. We need to remove that as well to do so target the yellow highlight using Yellows.
To desaturate the hair color, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation and pick the Reds and now desaturate the red color by dragging the Saturation Slider all the way to left.Īs you can notice that hair has yellow highlights as well. To give a black color to the hair we need to first desaturate the hair color and then we’ll darken it to turn it into a black color. So always use a mask to remove the effect of any adjustment layer on the skin. Note: We’ll be doing this throughout the tutorial to make sure we can keep skin color intact. We need to fix it, to do that, remove the effect of the Selective Color on the skin by painting on the mask using a black brush. If you need to fine-tune settings, feel free to do it.Īs you can notice it has changed the skin color of the model as well as it has red tones. You can see my settings in below image and you can pretty much use the same settings if your model’s hair color is red. Change the settings of the Red & Yellow to turn red hair into brown hair. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color. It’s very easy to pinpoint red hair using this adjustment layer. Now we’ll target red color using Selecting Color adjustment. Turing a hair color into brown is an easy-peasy task because my model has red hair color. Now we’ll change the hair color into brown. If your image has good contrast and color you should be good to go. I just did a basic adjustment on the image just to pop out the colors. At very first sight, the image looks dull and flat as the colors are not popped out. You can download the same image to follow along with the tutorial from the mentioned link in the tutorial resource section.
I am using this woman image and I found it on Unsplash. So, without any further ado let’s get started! Tutorial Resources Once you master this technique you’ll be able to turn any hair color into a different one. I’ll show you how you can create three hair color variation which are Brown, Black, and Blonde. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the hair coloring techniques in Photoshop.
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