Exercise 3 Changing Hair Color in An Image With Photoshop: First Semester, A.Y. 2014-2015 Photoshop CS3 Exercises
Exercise 3 Changing Hair Color in An Image With Photoshop: First Semester, A.Y. 2014-2015 Photoshop CS3 Exercises
Exercise 3 Changing Hair Color in An Image With Photoshop: First Semester, A.Y. 2014-2015 Photoshop CS3 Exercises
Click on the “New Adjustment Layer” icon. Select a “Hue/Saturation” adjustment layer.Then
select Hue/Saturation from the list of adjustment layers that appears:
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As soon as you select the Colorize option, you’ll see your entire image become colorized with a shade of
violet.
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the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, and anywhere we leave black will keep the effects hidden. First, we
need the Brush Tool, so either select it from the Tools palette or press the letter B on your keyboard to select
it with the shortcut:
We need to paint with white on the layer mask to reveal the colorizing effect on the hair, and Photoshop has
already set our Foreground color to white for us, as we can see in the Foreground and Background color
swatches near the bottom of the Tools palette (the swatch on the left is the Foreground color and the swatch
on the right is the Background color):
Photoshop’s Tools palette showing white as our Foreground color and black as our Background color.
Shortcuts:
} (bracket) – to change
the diameter of the
brush or eraser
Ctrl + - Zoom in
Ctrl - - Zoom out
Paint with white over the hair to reveal the colorizing effect from the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.
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For trickier areas where there’s only loose strands of hair, go up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen
and lower the Opacity of the brush down to about 25% or so:
Zoom into the areas of loose strands if needed and paint over them a couple of times with a lower opacity
brush.
The woman’s hair is now colorized while the rest of the image is not.
BEFORE AFTER
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