Elysian vs. Alexi

ok, here i go :D

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-|Testament|- said:
can you edit the hair on photoshop by the way? if so can you teach me?
Sure! It usually depends a lot on how much detail you have on the hair though. It's really easy in focused shots of blond hair.
 
-Gavin- said:
it's easy... cut it with lasoo tool then adjust colour balance.
Not quite.

Add a new layer and set it to colour mode and paint over it with a soft brush. Once you finish that, change the layer opacity settings to make the colour look the way you want. You might have to blur the edges a little bit.

That works very well on blond hair. It's harder on dark hair because it usually doesn't have enough detail to look convincing. If it DOES have enough detail, one way to do it is to lighten the hair quite a lot (dodge tool, something like that) and then apply the previous technique over it.
 
Brown/dark hair has the tendency to turn pure black in the shadows whereas blond/coloured hair usually retains some level of details. This makes conversions based on dark hair look fake at times.
 
Here's one dark brown to blond-ish conversion attempt using layer masks and color balance.

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See what I mean about the lack of detail in the shadow?