In this tutorial you will learn how to colorize or change hair color using Adobe Photoshop. To do that follows some steps.

Open the image of which you want to colorize hair then click on the channels tab on the layers palette.




And duplicate the blue channel by right clicking and choosing duplicate channel on the channel.






Click o.k. in the duplicate channel dialogue box.




Turn the visibility off of the channels other than the blue copy channel by clicking on the eye icon on the channels palette and start working on the duplicated channel


From tools palette select dodge tool




Set these options for this tool. Range as highlights and exposure to 46%.



Now highlight the image other than the hair. You can also change the exposure of the tool as needed
Now from tools palette again select burn tool.







Set the settings for the burn tool. Range as shadows and exposure to 100%.




Now burn the hair using this tool



After burning the hair click on the Channel by holding down the Ctrl key.



It will make selection of the channel.






And turn the visibility on of the other channels and click on the layers tab.
Press Ctrl J to make a new layer with selected area and turn the visibility off of the original image.



Now use eraser tool to erase the area other than the hair.





Now from the layers palette click on the effects button and choose color overlay from the drop down list.



Set the blend mode to hue and click o.k. turn the visibility on of the original image




Click on the color box and select your own color for the hair.





And see the color of the hair has successfully changed to different color.


You can also change the hair color to any color you want by clicking on the color box and selecting color from the color picker.

Hope this has been helped to you. Send your comments.

To see the video of this tutorial click here

It's a nice tutorial, however you can easily achieve what you did using the Hue/Saturation feature.

When writing a tutorial (especially one that is related to graphics), you should use higher quality images.

I like this post. I can have fun while editing some pictures. Thanks and this is very helpful. Sometimes I am having difficulty using photoshop but I know I will overcome this. Thanks again!

lol, nice tutorial, now, i am gonna see. will i look like with blue hairs

Thanks rebecca125
I just learned a 4th lesson in this day today, I appreciate the short tutorial.
IamShipon1988 has intrigued me with the mention of a second avenue of approach (I'm a magic wand user and that hair would take me about 3-1/2 hrs to get clean enough for an eye-candy blend, not that I'm any good at this) so, I was wondering if the different approaches do actually provide a variant (variance) of graphical representation(al) quality?

Thanks, but I can do that in other way too. By simply cutting, duplicating the layer, and adjusting the color balance, the same thing can be done. But for those who do not know Photoshop, this is a good way to learn.