Tutorial 8: How to Change Someone’s Hair Colour in a Picture

Hello world! Today I will teach you how to “Change the hair color in someone’s picture”.  Our final result would be something like this:

I will be using a picture of an actress Debby Ryan. You can use any picture you want but I will advise that you should use some picture in which hair are prominent so that you can practice better.

Let’s get started with it. Open your software and in your software, open a picture in which someone’s hair is prominently seen. After you open your project picture, your screen would look like the following picture:

Now, Take the Brush Tool from Tools Tab or simply press B. After taking brush tool go to the bottom of Tools Tab and press Quick Masking button. This button is mentioned by the Step 2. After press quick masking button, go to the top of screen and set the rush Properties i.e. size, type, flow, radius and opacity etc. which are mentioned by the Step 3 in the picture below. After setting the brush, go to the picture and apply brush on hair. See following picture, follow the numbered step:

Change the size, opacity and flow of brush where needed. Remember, whatever color you choose for the brush, the hair will be painted red. Don’t worry; this is a part of tutorial.

See following picture:

After applying brush on desired part of picture, go to Tools Tab and select the tool which is mentioned in the following picture with number 1. Now go to the bottom of the Tools Tab and press the button that is mentioned with number 2. This will turn the red hair paint in to a selection on the picture. If you notice, the selection in the picture now includes the area except the hair. To select only hair, go to Menu Bar and click on Select Menu. In drop down menu, click Inverse button.

See following picture for more detail:

 Now the hair area only is selected. Go to Layer Menu and in drop down menu click on New Fill Layer option and in next menu, click Solid Colour. See the following picture:

Now that the hair is selected, go to Menu Bar and click on Layer Menu. In drop down menu, click on New Layer option and in new small menu click on Solid Color.  A small new window will open on your screen like picture:

Set the Mode to Soft Light, Opacity to 100% and click OK button. Now another small window will open on your screen asking you to set the color that you want the hair to be. Just like following picture:

Now set the color and click OK button.  You will have your edit. My edit looks like following:

Now save it in .jpg format and also in .psd format so that you can reuse this project whatever you want.

That’s all for this tutorial. I hope it helped.

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Tutorial 6: Making a Colourful Sunset

Today I will let you know how to make a Colorful Sunset Scene like this:

From this:

Let’s get started. Open you software i.e. Adobe Photoshop CS2. Your starting screen would look like the picture below:

Now open the picture that you want to edit. My advice will be that you download the Original Picture of Sunset that I gave up there so that you understand each step more accurately. So download that picture of sunset by clicking it to see larger size and “save as” and open that.
Your screen would look like the following:

Now click on the first tool in “Tools Tab” and then click on “Add new layer” button on bottom right of the screen. Following picture will guide you in finding it:

Follow the Numbered Steps in above picture and you will do great.

OK now a new layer will form over “Background” layer called “Layer 1”. Click it once only to bring it to focus. (Bringing something to focus means that you tell your computer that you are going to do something related to that thing or on that thing)

Then go to Tools Tab and select Brush tool or just press Ctrl+B on your keyboard without going to tools tab. Then you would see a tiny image on one of the bar on top with a tine arrow pointing downwards with it. See the Sign 2 in the following picture if you do get the last sentence:

Now did you find the tiny image with an arrow and a number under it? Click that arrow and a menu will appear. In that menu, there will be many images. You can choose any one of them. They all are the “Styles of Brushes”. Choose an image of Circle but without shape boundary and set the Radius to 100 and Hardness to Zero.

See the following picture:

Now choose any color from Color Tab. For that, click on the upper color in color tab and a new small window will open. In that window, choose any color and click OK Button. See the following picture and follow that numbered steps:

Now bring the “Layer 1” in focus by clicking it once. And start painting on the picture as I did in following picture:

Repeat the above step with different colors i.e. change 3 to 4 colors and paint on different parts of picture and try to fill it. Don’t add a new layer for new color. Just add all colors on same layer that is Layer 1.

See following picture:

After making all the colors in Layer 1 click it and then go to Menu Bar and click Filter. Then in next menu, Click Blur and then in next menu click Gaussian Blur. Following picture will show you where to find it:

A new small window named “Gaussian Blur” will appear. Set the Radius to 99.5 pixels. And click OK button. Also double click on Background Layer and in small new window click OK Button. The Background Layer will convert into “Layer Zero”. Click on Layer 1 and change its style from Normal to Hardstyle and do the same with “Layer Zero” i.e. change its style from Normal to Hardstyle.

See following two pictures:

Now interchange the places of both layers like the following picture and you will get the desired edit:

Now save the image in .jpg format and also in .psd format. To See how to save a project take a look at https://learntoedit.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/tutorial-3-saving-the-project/

With same technique, you can make many colorful edits like:

Hope this helped
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