- Click the brush in the toolbox. Or press the B key. We’ll use
the brush to paint away the weird green highlights. - Eyedrop a representative hair color. With the brush
active, press Alt (or Option) to temporarily access the eyedrop-
per, and then click someplace where the hair appears a natural
blonde. To see what color you lifted, bring up the Color panel
by pressing F6. Mine was in the neighborhood of R: 90, G: 70,
B: 50. But hair has so much variation that you may end up with
something different. Feel free to use your eyedropped color or
enter the values suggested here—either should work fine. - Select the Hue blend mode. Go up to the options bar and
change the Mode setting to Hue, or press Shift+Alt+U (or
Shift-Option-U). You can now paint in new hue values while
leaving the luminosity and saturation unchanged, which will
lead to the most organic effects. - Paint the hair. Set the brush dia meter to 70 pixels or so; leave
the Hardness set to 100 percent. Then paint the green hair and
watch it change to blonde, as illustrated in Figure 4-16.
Figure 4-16.
- Select the red eye tool in the toolbox. Your final task is to re-
move the now controversial red eye. Click and hold the band-
aid below the eyedropper tool icon in the toolbox, and choose
the red eye tool from the flyout menu (see Figure 4-17 on the
facing page). - Retouch one of the pupils. Zoom in on the one of the pupils
and then just click it with the red eye tool. Just like that, the
red eye goes away. So eager is the tool to obliterate red eye that
Greenish hairBack to blonde
102 Lesson 4: Retouch, Heal, and Enhance