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#1
11-23-2004, 03:14 PM
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 Brown/Brunette to Blonde? Hello all, I'm new here. It seems like a great forum!  I was wondering if anyone knew a way to colourize brown/brunette hair to blonde. I've tried several ways, but I can never seem to get it. Has anyone ever done this? If so, could you explain a bit? Thanks! I'm going to check out the rest of the forums. -Liv            |
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11-23-2004, 03:34 PM
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| Hi Liv, and welcome to RetouchPro! As with most things Photoshop, there are a number of ways of doing it. Did you have a particular image in mind? If you post it, various ones will likely give it a go and explained how they did it, and you can decide which way you like best. Victoria |
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11-23-2004, 04:39 PM
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| Ooooh, that's not something I've tried before, particularly on such dark hair. For light hair, you'd expect to see more detail, but there isn't a lot of detail in the black. I treated it differently for black and white than I would for colour, concentrating on lightening, but obviously not having to worry about adding any colour to it. I've only spent about 2 mins on it, and I'm not quite happy. I'll continue thinking... In the meantime, what I tried was using one of the channels to create a mask, and applied a levels adjustment so that mainly the hair was selected, and tidied it up with a quick brush over. I used that mask to create a curves layer, lightening the shadows to about 128, and going from there sharply increasing contrast, with it leveling off about midway. I painted the mask back over the eyes slightly too, as they looked too dark, although I think they need a bit more. I'm interested to see what anyone else comes up with! |
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11-23-2004, 07:51 PM
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| Welcome aboard Liv. This is an extremely rough mask that I used. What I did was to duplicate a channel (they're all the same), make a curves adjustment on it to greatly increase the contrast. Inverted the image (mask only). This gave me the white hair I was looking for. Then I painted everything that was not hair with black. Select all, copy, then paste into it's own layer. From there, it was a matter of using a layer mask to take it closer to what I wanted (keep the white hair, but hide everything else). I selected the background, and made it a little darker to contrast with the hair. The mask could be a lot better, but this was done in a hurry. Hope this gets you a starting point for making it a lot better. Ed |
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11-23-2004, 11:24 PM
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| Like the others I created a mask for the hair using a copy of the red channel, duplicated the layer with the selection active added heavy noise to the hair then smudged the noise using a 'hair brush' some in lighten mode some normal. Dodged a bit to further lighten. Christine |
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11-24-2004, 10:19 PM
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| Thanks Victoria, Dave and Ed, The hair brush is one of Trimoons but is basically 6 or 7 small dots randomly spaced. Not sure if it is available for free on his site as I purchased one of the CD's. Ed - I'll think about a tut but the day job is keeping me very busy up til Christmas. Christine |
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11-27-2004, 08:25 PM
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byRo. |
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11-28-2004, 08:28 PM
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Ah, but when I said 'trying out in colour' I more so meant trying to turn a brown to blonde in a colour pic. :P |
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