Change Hair Color in Photoshop

In this photo retouching tutorial, you will learn how to easily change hair color in an image with Adobe Photoshop. This technique is very easy especially for the beginner who want to learn photo retouching in Adobe Photoshop. You can use this method on photos of other people (friend, family photos) or you can just use it for yourself to see what would you look in other hair colors.

Here's The Final Result:

At the end of this tutorial you will find how it easy to change color of your hair in an image, so let's get started

Step 1

Open up your image using Adobe Photoshop and create a new layer.

Step 2

In your toolbox select the brush tool and choose your desired color and select the soft light mode.

Step 2

After you set the brush to soft light mode, you can now apply it to the hair, use the zoom tool or just press ctrl + + to enlarge and ctrl + - to zoom out the image to be sure to fill all hair areas. 

Step 3

After you fully retouch the hair you can use the opacity tool on your layers tab, to adjust the fade effect to make it more realistic

Step 3

If you're not contented with the color and you want to change it, you can use the Hue/Saturation tool without going back to step one. Just select the layer that contains the color and go to Image>>Adjustments>>Hue/Saturation or just press CTRL + U.

The best thing with a hue/saturation tool is that you can easily adjust the color of the selected layer color 

And there we have it! That’s how easy it is to change someone’s hair color in Photoshop!

Drop some comments if you have some question and I give it a shot as soon as possible. Enjoy!