How to change hair color with Gimp 2

[Parvati ~ <3]

Okay, so i know that when i first started out, the hardest thing to do for me, was make hair textures. I couldn't figure out how to do it. A lot of people think you need Photoshop to do it, but here is a quick way to do it with gimp(:
Note: This way doesn't work particularly good if you're starting out with dark hair.

Okay, so open Gimp2. And get your texture loaded:

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And now, click on your path tool.

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and start out lining the hair texture.

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Once you finish, click "Select" at the top and then click "From Path"

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Now select "air brush"

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Say you wanted pink hair, so you choose your color.

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Now, we make the size of the brush pretty big. I like to do somewhere around 546.
and Turn the Opacity down to about 75
and lightly airbrush the hair.

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Finishing Product:

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Hope this helped!(:

[ABloodyCanadian]

What also works.

1). Select hair

2). Go to Colors>Colorize

3). Change the various sliders to your liking

DONE!

[Anivernage]

What also works.

1). Select hair

2). Go to Colors>Colorize

3). Change the various sliders to your liking

DONE!

lol true

btw nice tutorial :D
hope this helps people who makes textures with solid colors instead of preserving the details.

[Parvati ~ <3]

What also works.

1). Select hair

2). Go to Colors>Colorize

3). Change the various sliders to your liking

DONE!

Lol, i just did what i find easiest ;P

[Velen]

Nice tutorial. I kinda see an advantage that GIMP has over Photoshop. Dem points on da path tool. : O

[WarioManX]

Nice tutorial. I kinda see an advantage that GIMP has over Photoshop.

I have seen the light! Will totally be downloading GIMP 2 now!

Thanks a lot, Mikuru Baby! ... not gonna lie... I've wanted to say that for years...

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[fierce-link0]

I love you! thanks for the excellent tutorial!! :D

[ABloodyCanadian]

Now that I think about it, Using your method has advantages that what I mentioned doesn't have...

[Chaos_Knight]

It's much easier if you mess around with these and using the paint brush.

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[Moblin]

Here's an even faster way to do quick yet effective recolors.

1. Use Colour Wand to select what you want to edit. Once selected, press Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. This should paste your selection in a new layer. If it pastes it in the same layer, just create a new layer and paste it into there. Move into place if required.

2. Desaturate the new layer completely. This should leave you with a simple gray recolour. Brighten/darken if required (pretty much dark to bright and vice versa will require this)

3. Create a new layer and use the Fill bucket with whatever colour you want. Right click the new layer and click "create clipping mask", and then change the layer type (check Chaos_Knight's spoiler) to "overlay". This layer should be place directly on top of the separated texture.

And there you go. Takes maybe 30 minutes for a full recolour. This method is advantageous because you can save it with everything in the texture separated into layers, making for super-quick recolouring, literally less then a minute depending on the complexity of the your texture.

I normally use Photoshop for recolours so some of this may be wrong for GIMP users. I don't see why GIMP wouldn't have any of the features I mentioned, though.

[Parvati ~ <3]

That. is really confusing.^
I didn't mean to post this to act like it was superior too your guys's ways. This is just my way.

[Moblin]

Confusing, but worth learning. It's easily the fastest way to recolour.

To each their own, however. You can make recolours whichever way you please. I figured I'd just share how I make them, because I've gotten great results using this method.