Coloring the hair

Hello peeps.

I'm sorry 'cause I've been off for a while. As I promised in this tutorial we'll do something very cool. Guess what, that's coloring hair. Yuhuuu :))) At last, you can color other peoples hair whatever you like, by just reading the following rows...

So let's begin. Open the Photoshop and desired photo of the person you'd like to paint it's hair. I wanted to color the Eva Longoria's hair into red.




First click on the Edit in Quick Mask Mode or just click "Q" on the keyboard. It should transport you to the Quick Mask Mode. In this mode, as I said in the previous chapters, you can select whatever you like with the brush. Now click the Brush Tool and set these parameters (under the menu bar):

Airbrush Soft Round 50%
Brush Size: 80 px
Mode: normal
Opacity: 100%
Flow: 20%-80%

Then in the Quick Mask Mode just brush her hair, like on this picture:



You can see that I wasn't precise. The reason is that we took the soft round brush, and it will give us smooth result, and when we're going to color it will give us good result. But we shouldn't leave the red brush on the skin. So feel free to take the Eraser, and then just delete the red color where you want. When you're finished, just click Edit in Standard Mode or "Q" on the keyboard, to return to the standard mode editing. When you return it will automatically turn the un-red field in the selection, so you must go to Select-Inverse in the menu bar or hotkey CTRL+SHIFT+I. It will make the red field, that we colored, into the selection. When you did that click CTRL+B or go to the menu bar Image/Adjustments/Color Balance. In the Color Balance menu you'll select desired color. In my case I wanted the red color version of the Eva Longoria, so I set this:

Shadows option:

Cyan - Red = +26
Magenta - Green = 0
Yellow - Blue = 0

Midtones option:

Cyan - Red = +57
Magenta - Green = 0
Yellow - Blue = 0

Highlights option:

Cyan - Red = -70
Magenta - Green = 0
Yellow - Blue = 0

And this is my result:



I really like it. I hope you like it too :) Feel free to ask me if you don't understand something and you should upload your results at Slibe image hoster and give me link to see your result. In the next tutorial, I'll learn you how to make very realistic eye, maybe a little spooky, but it will be cool.

Bye bye, 'till next time.