On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 04:39 PM, simonmartin wrote:
I have a job where I need to slightly change a model's hair colour, from blonde to strawberry blonde and brunette to a copper tint.Going from Blond to strawberry blond should be fairly easy and you could probably swing it with a curves adjustment layer. I would work it in whatever color space the original file is in - no need to move into LAB for this one.You just need to make the hair slightly redder.
Going from Brunette to copper is a little harder because its always a little tricky coloring from dark to light. You'll have to lighten the midtone quite a bit without flattening out the highlights.The hair might be a little lighter in the red channel of an RGB image (if the original is in CMYK duplicate it and convert the duplicate to RGB) - copy that red channel out as a separate document and apply it back over the color image in luminosity mode then apply a light copper color (fairly bright or it will darken it) over the hair in overlay mode. Overlay will colorize without completely obliterating the natural color variation in the hair but you have to be careful because it will boost saturation - use a less saturated color for your copper tone. You'll probably still need to adjust with curves to finish it off. Keep everything in layers and you can always adjust with opacity sliders - have fun.
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Lee Varis
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