{"id":4961,"date":"2008-04-09T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-change-hair-color-in-photoshop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:32:26","slug":"how-to-change-hair-color-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-change-hair-color-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change hair color in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feel like changing your look? Not sure if that new hair color will fit you? Don&#8217;t worry: now you can have a preview in Photoshop. Just take a picture of yourself and try different looks with this simple tutorial until you find the perfect color for you, without ruining your current style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Open the photo you&#8217;re going to be working with and create a new layer over it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/ps-eyecolor-00.jpg\" alt=\"change hair color in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Go to <em>Layer &gt; New Adjustment Layer &gt; Hue\/Saturation<\/em> and apply a Hue layer on your composition. Tick the &#8220;Colorize&#8221; option and use the sliders to select the new color of your hair. In this case we&#8217;ve chosen a light red.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/ps-eyecolor-01.jpg\" alt=\"change hair color in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Now paint the Hue\/Saturation layer black (using the Bucket tool), grab the Pencil tool and changing to white, start painting over the hair areas. You can paint the whole of it or just a few locks, resizing the brush accordingly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/ps-eyecolor-02.jpg\" alt=\"change hair color in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Enjoy your brand new look!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/ps-eyecolor-03.png\" alt=\"change hair color in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel like changing your look? Not sure if that new hair color will fit you? Don&#8217;t worry: now you can have a preview in Photoshop. Just take a picture of yourself and try different looks with this simple tutorial until you find the perfect color for you, without ruining your current style. 1. Open the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-change-hair-color-in-photoshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to change hair color in Photoshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336213,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/336213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}