Digital Diversity

If you have read the very first post I made here at Digital Diversity you will know why I bought my Panasonic FZ28. I did it because I wanted more out of a camera than my little Canon Ixus 75 could give me. More zoom, more control and better quality images. Well its happened again. I hit that roof where my camera was slowing me down.

Dont get me wrong, the Panasonic FZ28 is a great super zoom bridge camera that can give you some great images but it does have its limits. For example, in low light it really did suffer, I couldn’t shoot in rapid burst while using RAW files, The dynamic range was a bit limited which led to easily blown highlights and so on

Because of this I started to look a bit more into DSLR’s. I was already aware of their advantages from an image quality point of view but I needed to learn more about lens quality, prices and what type of DSLR would sustain my needs.

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In this third instalment of my Portrait re-touching Photoshop tutorials I will be talking about altering the hair. Hair is a big part of some ones over all look and simply changing the colour can give big impact to your photographs.

This tutorial will cover 2 areas. The first is removing stray hairs from around the head and face. The second is changing the colour.

For this tutorial I recommend you have an understanding of the following. Each subject is linked to the appropriate Photoshop tutorial
• Layers and Masks
• Adjustment layers
• Hue / Saturation adjustment layers
• Cloning and healing

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So you have been out taking photos of your family, friends or even for a client. You get home and you have plenty of decent single portrait shots but not a single decent group shot. They are looking the wrong way or pulling faces, generally not giving you the picture you want.

Well you can always save the day by replacing the heads using some other shots you took that did come out well.

Using a combination of photographs that already match up, colour & light correcting, some clever masking and a bit of cloning you should be able to get a result your happy with.

For this tutorial it will help if you already understand the following.
• Layers and masks
• Adjustment layers and colour correction
• Cloning and healing

The images in this tutorial are the property of Blueberry Moon Photography. She was kind enough to let me use these shots for this tutorial. These in no way represent her high standard of work. You can view her excellent photography work here.

Using this technique you can go from this

To this

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