Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Multi-colored Plastic-like Hair Tutorial

In this tutorial, I am going to show you on how to put some colors in the hair in order to have a multi-colored plastic-like hair. And I am going to put some shades and shine to the hair.

Let’s begin! First you need a picture of a woman with a long hair, or any woman with a natural hair. Just search I Google and you will find many images that you can used. Then let’s open it on Photoshop.>>>>> *credits: Photos are from their respective owners. SO DON'T SUE ME. <<<<< -denztriker

Material needed:

 

Then select the Dodge Tool with a Brush: 70px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 30% then brighten some parts of the hair.

Then next, Select the Sharpen Tool and add some sharpness in some parts of the hair.

And then let’s now start coloring the hair. And let’s make of use different colors with multiple strands of the hair. Lets first use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create a selection and fill the selected area with the color of #ef8008 on a new layer.

In order to fill the selected area, SHIFT+F5 then select the color we want.

Then create five layers with any colors like these colors respectively: #f51464, #cd1bd4, #416fb4,#41b0b4 and #b1ce06.

Then merge the Five Layers with different colors. Then apply Filter >>> Blur >>> Gaussian Blur.

Change layer mode into Color and see for the results.

Duplicate the current layer (CTRL+J) and reduce opacity to 30% for this layer.

And we are almost done. Select burn tool and under the image layer (The one with a model), burn some parts of the hair and background. And add some colors if you want by using the same process. And here it is.

Final Result: