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| V1nc?nt 2004-05-20, 9:28 am |
| 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
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| Larry Preuss 2004-05-20, 9:28 am |
| in article wH%qc.1626$Bb6.34558@zonnet-reader-1, V1nc?nt at
something@somewhere.com wrote on 5/20/04 6:23 AM:
> 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 2004-05-20, 7:28 pm |
| "V1nc?nt" <something@somewhere.com> 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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| michael 2004-05-20, 7:28 pm |
| 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" <doormouse@att.net> wrote in message
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> "V1nc?nt" <something@somewhere.com> wrote:
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> 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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| /\\BratMan/\\ 2004-05-20, 7:28 pm |
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"V1nc?nt" <something@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:wH%qc.1626$Bb6.34558@zonnet-reader-1...
> 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/photoshopah...=photoshop.html
Scroll down to, "Blondes have more fun!"
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| arrooke1 2004-05-20, 7:28 pm |
| > 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 2004-05-20, 11:28 pm |
| LOL =)
The Doormouse
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| V1nc3nt 2004-05-22, 7:28 am |
| 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 2004-05-22, 7:28 pm |
| 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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