Stop Repainting Objects by Hand — Use Photoshop's Hue/Saturation to Color Match in Minutes

Stop Repainting Objects by Hand — Use Photoshop's Hue/Saturation to Color Match in Minutes

Client sends you a product photo. The widget is blue. They want it pink. You open Photoshop, grab the Brush tool, and spend forty minutes hand-painting over it like some kind of digital house painter. The result looks okay at 50% zoom and terrible at 100%. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit, and for a while I thought that was just the job. Turns out there’s a smarter way, and it takes about five minutes once you know the workflow.

Paint Over It: The Lazy-Smart Way to Recolor Hair in Photoshop

Paint Over It: The Lazy-Smart Way to Recolor Hair in Photoshop

There’s a certain kind of client request that makes every retoucher pause before responding: “Can you make the hair a different color?” It sounds simple. It is not always simple. I’ve gone down the channel-masking rabbit hole, spent twenty minutes wrestling with Select and Mask, and once produced what I can only describe as a hair-shaped disaster. So when I came across this Jessica Kobeissi tutorial on transforming portrait photos, specifically recoloring dark hair to a vivid pink, I was relieved to see a method that actually respects the fact that most of us are working against a deadline.

Master Color Gradients in Photoshop Without Destroying Your Subject's Skin Tone

Master Color Gradients in Photoshop Without Destroying Your Subject's Skin Tone

The Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s something that happens to Photoshop users constantly: you try to change the color of someone’s clothing and suddenly their face looks like they’ve been in a tanning booth accident. It’s because Photoshop’s color tools are too good at finding every instance of a color—including the ones you didn’t want to touch. In this excellent tutorial, Aaron Nace (PHLEARN) shows us how to surgically recolor specific objects while keeping skin tones looking natural.