[Req] [PS] Hair re-coloring

[Brainer]

Hello there! :D

I'd like to know how to re-color hair of a character. For example, I want to make her hair blonde:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p50/TheChromeAngel/Anime%20Girls/Dark%20Hair%20Girls/anime_girl_fav4236.jpg

Can you give me some tips, or maybe the whole solution, please?

[noobie]

What program do you use hun?
either way it could be a tough one,

i would use the magic wand tool, select the hair and do a gradient map over it, or colourize, depending on which program you use

[Blayde]

I'd say, lasso it out, either use variations or hue/saturation w/ colorize on and then use some levelling and contrast to get the right look

edit: dang, noobie beat me to it.

this is what i got w/ variations + overlay and a bit of screen blending layers (the glow is cos i forgot to remove the feather, whoops, but it does work somewhat)

http://pic.phyrefile.com/2008/02/09/animegirlfav4236.jpg

[Brainer]

What program do you use hun?

I use Photoshop, sis! :) I mentioned it in the subject. :D

Blayde, thanks a lot. I'll try and post the results here. :D

[chews]

you can google " Photoshop Hair Colouring Tutorials " too ...it will have lots of link to tuts u want.

[diesel]

there was a tutorial posted by 1 of our members (sorry cant remember who) on how to re color clothing so u can use that method!

[Brainer]

Look at this one:
http://www.onlyphotoshop.com/Tutorial-Change-Hair-Color-c-20.html

Even a noob like me can do it! :D Thanks chews for pointing me out to use the Father Google. :)

[lokifeyson]

that's good you found a tut saying exactly what I was gonna say to do :)

just make a new layer and color over the hair, then mess with the blending options, might need multiple layers since the hair is kind of dark

another way would be to duplicate the pics layer, then render or erase everything but the hair on the duplicate layer, then go to image->adjustments and then either use hue/saturation or color adjust.

good luck with that :D

[Harakiri]

Try this tutorial -> It works for black hair too.
http://www.signaturebar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6956

Here are a few of my outcomes.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/vapor-aoe/adhgai.pnghttp://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/vapor-aoe/rwjwrhhrqhe.pnghttp://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/vapor-aoe/hsgftyyyyyyyyy.pnghttp://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/vapor-aoe/zcb.pnghttp://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/vapor-aoe/bdzbbb.pnghttp://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/vapor-aoe/anime_girl_fav4236.png