July 2014

How to Change Hair Color in Photoshop

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Changing Hair Color in Photoshop

There are many reasons why you may want to change hair color in Photoshop. Perhaps your subject has recently dyed their hair and it doesn’t look natural. Perhaps you want to see what you would look like with dark hair.

Changing Hair color in Photoshop is much easier than doing it in real life and by the time this episode is over you will be on your way to color city!

Some Guidelines on Hair Color

It is much easier to make hair dark than light. If you are starting out with a blonde and want to make her a brunette, not too hard. Turning black hair into blonde hair is nearly impossible. The reason is that you have more information to start with in lighter colors. With black you will see very little detail, making it difficult to make lighter colors realistic.

Also be sure to not over-saturate hair color, there is a big difference between yellow and blonde.

Altering Hair Color in Photoshop

One of the best tools to use here is the “Selective Color” Adjustment Layer. You will be able to pinpoint a hair color (usually in the “red” range) and use the sliders to change the color. This adjustment layer is great because it will allow you to change hair color without going too drastic.

To make black hair use the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer and bring the saturation close to zero. Then use a Curves Adjustment layer to make the hair darker. As is often the case when making something darker in Photoshop, you will need to take care of the highlights separately. In this example we paint with white over the hair and use “blend-if” to blend it into the lighter areas of hair creating more defined highlights.

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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Transform a Photo into a Stained Glass Window!

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How to Rock the New Blur Gallery in Photoshop CC 2014

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New Blur Gallery in Photoshop CC 2014

Adobe just released updates to Photoshop CC free for all CC subscribers. The new update is simply given a date to help you identify the updated software. Photoshop CC 2014 is even more powerful and the new tools they added will help you work faster and more precisely in Photoshop.

In today’s episode we will show you how to use some of my favorite new tools in The Blur Gallery.

We will be using different blurs within the Blur Gallery to add style to a BMX photo.

Path Blur

For the first time ever you can blur along a curve in Photoshop. The Path Blur will allow you to create a simple or complex curve and it will automatically figure out the blur. This addition will help out automotive photographers who want to show motion blur around a turn. It will also give you more options for adding style to an image like the one in today’s episode.

Blur effects tend to work well for action images.

Spin Blur

The new Spin Blur in Photoshop CC 2014 is similar to the Radial Blur but allows a bit more control and produces a slightly different effect. You will not need to use the Spin Blur on every one of your photos but if you are shooting bikes, cars, or anything else with wheels this blur makes the process of adding blur much easier.

In this episode we show you how to add a Spin Blur to a bicycle wheel and make selections so as not to blur the bike frame.

Making Selections for Blur

Any selection you make on your image will be carried into the Blur Gallery tools. In this episode we start out by selecting our subject and then applying the inverse so the blur only effects the background.

Adding Style to Images with Blur

While these blurs will not always produce results that are true to “Straight Out of Camera”, they will allow you a lot of creative freedom.

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