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04/11/2010 06:28:30 PM · #1 |
| I need to make someone's light brown hair grey. What would be the best way to do this so that it looks as close to natural as possible? |
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04/11/2010 06:31:37 PM · #2 |
| You can use powder, like talcum powder, but they make a special powder to do what you want, available where you would get theatre make up. |
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04/11/2010 06:33:37 PM · #3 |
Sorry, should have been clearer -- in post processing. My bad.
I thought about it before shooting, but circumstances didn't permit that. :) |
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04/11/2010 06:38:48 PM · #4 |
| Have them raise 5 kids. ...make that 3 kids - 5 just makes you go bald. |
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04/11/2010 06:40:47 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by karmat:
I need to make someone's light brown hair grey. What would be the best way to do this so that it looks as close to natural as possible? |
You could have him marry my wife, thats all it took for me. :D
Matt |
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04/11/2010 06:45:13 PM · #6 |
oops seeing you actually didn't get a straight answer -
Do you want to make all the hair grey, or just a touch of grey here & there? Either way, I think the best wat is to do you selection carefully and then CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+B for BW conversion on the selection and tweak the color sliders until you get it about where you want it and use dodge & burn to enhance. Hope that helps. |
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04/11/2010 06:50:48 PM · #7 |
| I can send you a self portrait which you could then copy and paste... :) sorry, couldn't resist--i've had grey since about 20 yrs old. |
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04/11/2010 07:06:18 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by karmat:
I need to make someone's light brown hair grey. What would be the best way to do this so that it looks as close to natural as possible? |
most people pay me to get rid of the grey hair...had someone ask me this wk if I could make their hair a "pretty gray" (as apposed to???....)...and I should have come back with Art's smart remark...have kids....lol |
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04/11/2010 07:08:20 PM · #9 |
What an odd question... My question is always the opposite.
But, only when I look in the mirror.
*sigh*
I hope you find help.
Wanna post a photo for us to work on? |
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04/11/2010 07:13:43 PM · #10 |
many tutorials here..
Change hair colour
Message edited by author 2010-04-11 19:13:56. |
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04/11/2010 07:20:53 PM · #11 |
You know, it is just outstanding what you can find on this site. And I mean that (semi) seriously. Thanks,  LVicari, and to Art Roflmao for his 2-ways.
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04/11/2010 07:43:56 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by mpeters:
I can send you a self portrait which you could then copy and paste... :) sorry, couldn't resist--i've had grey since about 20 yrs old. |
Ahh, so like Steve Martin, you suffer from poliosis - premature greying. I just keep a little thingy of gold-brown henna on hand to use as needed...please please PLEASE don't tell Magnumphotography...;-) |
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04/11/2010 09:19:52 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
Originally posted by mpeters:
I can send you a self portrait which you could then copy and paste... :) sorry, couldn't resist--i've had grey since about 20 yrs old. |
Ahh, so like Steve Martin, you suffer from poliosis - premature greying. I just keep a little thingy of gold-brown henna on hand to use as needed...please please PLEASE don't tell Magnumphotography...;-) |
Hehehehe says Ray as he scurries into the shadows :O) |
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04/12/2010 10:16:31 PM · #14 |
| thanks for all the suggestions. in the end, i left it primarily brown, and used the selective desaturation to make some of it look grayer. |
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04/12/2010 10:23:13 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by pixelpig:
You can use powder, like talcum powder, but they make a special powder to do what you want, available where you would get theatre make up. |
This is helpful (checkmark!). I've been entertaining an idea that would involve doing this (not in post). And talcum powder was the best I could come up with. Thanks! |
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04/13/2010 05:56:39 AM · #16 |
| I just did this to a photo for a friend a few weeks ago she had it print made for her brother as a gag gift, He has blonde hair so it was fairly easy but I imagine with a little extra toying around you could do it fairly easy to any color hair. I masked his hair made a couple of dupicate layers of it and greyscaled one and the other I toyed around with the hues and sats then blended them together. turned out very real looking. |
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