Hair (4.20 hrs)

Change colour of hair

H/S Adjustment Layer
Targeted Adjustment tool – select bright part of the hair colour that we want to change
Adjust Hue/Saturation/Lightness as needed
Selective Colour Adjustment Layer
Select from Colours dropdown appropriate range to amend to fine tune colours

Fix Hair Roots

Curves Adjustment Layer
To bring up darker tones bring up bottom left point
Mask tab and select colour range and select colour to change, amend range & fuzziness
Amend curve to lighten up a bit if needed
Bring blue curve down to bring in some yellow if needed
To increase effect duplicate layer
Customise adjustments as required & adjust feather of mask if needed
Group layers & create inverted mask
Brush tool – 0% hardness – 50% opacity
Paint in effect
Repeat all above steps as many times as needed (keep within the group though)

Stray Hairs

Individual Stray Hairs

New blank layer
Spot healing brush, small brush, sample all layers and heal stray hairs

Larger Areas

New blank layer
Clone stamp tool, 50% ish opacity, aligned, sample all layers, fairly large
Sample a good area and clone over area to change going up and down back over area
If blending of background needs fixing create new blank layer and fix with clone stamp tool with a large brush & 30% ish opacity

Fixing Frizzy and/or Stary Hairs against complex background

Select some good area of background & copy to new layer
Use free transform tool to cover up area to fix
Create inverted mask
Brush tool, 0% hardness and paint back in the new background to cover up stray hair, adjust opacity to fade in

Select & Mask

Duplicate layer twice (or MERGE TO TOP with 1st one) turn off visibility of lower layers
1st layer name Plate, 2nd layer name Subject
On Plate use clone stamp tool, 0% hardness & 100% opacity, to take out relevant part of subject but make sure sampling and cloning are well aligned for consistency of the background
On Subject layer Quick Select head & torso taking out the frizzy and stray hair bits
Select & Mask view on layers, increase radius, smart radius, smooth it out, feather, refine edge tool to bring back some imperfections,
Output as layer mask
Can adjust if needed by painting on mask