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V1nc3nt
May 20, 2004
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Hi,

Does anyone know a good way for changing the hair color of a black woman with black hair into realistic blond, or al least brown. Until now I don’t get very good results with Replace Color and Overlaying colored layers.

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Larry Preuss
May 20, 2004
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Hi,

Does anyone know a good way for changing the hair color of a black woman with black hair into realistic blond, or al least brown. Until now I don’t get very good results with Replace Color and Overlaying colored layers.
TIA
Scott Kelby, in his book "The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers" outlines a technique for colorizing hair on pp. 134-135. Larry
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The Doormouse
May 20, 2004
"V1nc?nt" wrote:

Does anyone know a good way for changing the hair color of a black woman with black hair into realistic blond, or al least brown. Until now I don’t get very good results with Replace Color and Overlaying colored layers.

Due to the fact that you very likely do not have enough shadow detail to edit the color, your only other option is pasting in detail.

Use the current hair as a mask on a photo portion of someone with real blond hair and approximately the same hairstyle. You may have to lighten up the original hair before you notice much. Use this layer of masked hair over the black hair and try adjusting the blending modes. Also work on the opacity. This will let you fake hair detail where there was no detail before.

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michael
May 20, 2004
I just did this to a picture of my son as he wants to learn Photoshop. I made a selection of his hair, created a new layer, set the new layer as color, selected the new color and filled it using the paint bucket…worked really well.

Though he didn’t think it was as funny as I did that I gave him pink hair. 11 year olds! 🙂

mb

"The Doormouse" wrote in message
"V1nc?nt" wrote:

Does anyone know a good way for changing the hair color of a black woman with black hair into realistic blond, or al least brown. Until now I don’t get very good results with Replace Color and Overlaying colored layers.

Due to the fact that you very likely do not have enough shadow detail to edit the color, your only other option is pasting in detail.
Use the current hair as a mask on a photo portion of someone with real blond hair and approximately the same hairstyle. You may have to lighten up the original hair before you notice much. Use this layer of masked hair over the black hair and try adjusting the blending modes. Also work on the opacity. This will let you fake hair detail where there was no detail before.

The Doormouse

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br
May 20, 2004
"V1nc?nt" wrote in message
Hi,

Does anyone know a good way for changing the hair color of a black woman with black hair into realistic blond, or al least brown. Until now I don’t get very good results with Replace Color and Overlaying colored layers.
TIA
Try here
http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html?=photoshop.html Scroll down to, "Blondes have more fun!"
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arrooke1
May 20, 2004
Hi,

Does anyone know a good way for changing the hair color of a black woman with black hair into realistic blond, or al least brown. Until now I don’t get very good results with Replace Color and Overlaying colored layers.
TIA
Shitty thing about being Black (aside from the racism factor), is lack of light reflection in the hair for image altering purposes. I have the same problem taking pictures of my black lab. Unless there’s a lot of light, the results are unspectacularly flat & ugly. Rather like some of the dates I used to wind up with at closing time.
Try lightening your image as much as you can. Select preserve transparancy and experiment with saturation & colour combinations. Good luck. Keith.
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The Doormouse
May 21, 2004
LOL =)

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Jon Danniken
May 21, 2004
"/\BratMan/\" wrote:
"V1nc?nt" wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone know a good way for changing the hair color of a black woman with black hair into realistic blond, or al least brown. Until now I don’t get very good results with Replace Color and Overlaying colored layers.
TIA
Try here
http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html?=photoshop.html Scroll down to, "Blondes have more fun!"

That site makes me think I need to go to the eye doctor.

Jon
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mdocert
May 22, 2004
Hmm.. Try this:
To the entire photo; Go to the Adjustment Layer at the bottom of the Layers pallette and select Color Balance. Move the sliders to the color that you’d like the hair to be. Adjust each of the Highlights, Midtones and Shadows in the Tone Balance section of the Color Balance dialog. Don’t worry that it’s messing up the rest of the picture, we’ll fix that in a minute. Set your forground color to black then press Alt-Backspace. Now pick a soft edged brush, set your forground color to white and paint over the hair. This will make the hair the color that you want. Once the hair is painted, change the blend mode of your Color balance Adjustment layer to Color, then lower the opacity until it looks natural.
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V1nc3nt
May 22, 2004
Thanks for all the replies. I’ve tried it all, but I guess she’ll never be a real blond. A brunette is what I get at the most, and even that looks a bit fake. There’s just too little detail in the hair (it’s all just black) to make a color change that looks realistic and my goal was (is) to keep the original hair, so the cloning from other blond hair is no option for me. Anyway, If I get a ‘eureka’ moment, I’ll shere it with you all.

Thanks,
V1nc3nt
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V1nc3nt
May 22, 2004
Thanks for all the replies. I’ve tried it all, but I guess she’ll never be a real blond. A brunette is what I get at the most, and even that looks a bit fake. There’s just too little detail in the hair (it’s all just black) to make a color change that looks realistic and my goal was (is) to keep the original hair, so the cloning from other blond hair is no option for me. Anyway, If I get a ‘eureka’ moment, I’ll shere it with you all.

Thanks,
V1nc3nt

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