Photoshop help!

[Incorrigible]

So, apparently I'm too old school with my Corel Draw and am having a series of blonde moments here with photoshop! In time I'll figure it out from random tinkering about and screwing around, but for now I could really use some help if someone could spend 5 minutes to tutor me. I'm trying to do something that -should- be very basic: change the hair color of the picture I am using as an avatar to an orangish red.

[RogueKing]

I dont have Photoshop on this computer >_> Only at school but you  should be able to just select the area you want to change, IE: Hair... and then on the side there should be the CMYK colour bars on the right of the screen or whatever, just tweak them untill you have the colour you want. I cant remember without having ti infront of me

[Caster13]

You'll need to use the selection tool to make a series of lines connecting the area you want changed. From there you should be able to use the colorize/saturation tools.

[Diz-e]

you don't necessarily have to select anything, though if you wanna spend the time to change the hair and only the hair, you can go that route.

try this:

-open the image in photoshop, and go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation

-in the drop-down menu where it says "Master" change it to Magentas. crank the saturation to like +80-90 and the hue adjust to taste

-then change the  drop-down to Reds. crank up the saturation to +50 and the hue to taste

Now you not only swayed the hair color, but you put some real juice into the image too. Here's what I came out with:

[Ebok]

You can also grab one of the drawing tools, and switch the Mode selection from normal to either Color or Hue. Grab the orange color you want and color over the top of it. I'd always recommend keeping the flow lower so you can adjust slowly until you have what you want.



When you have small images like this, it only takes a few seconds to draw over it. And you can shrink the sizes of your brush with the [ ] keys, so you can fine tune the edges and more quickly blot out the center regions. The reason I suggest not using the selection tools for this type of thing is you can easily miss small tufts or hair, or end up with a small halo effect because you might have grabbed part of the background.



As you can see, its really quick and easy to use the same tool to wash over different parts of the image to get different feels.