RecolorImage
Recolor an image

Change hair colour in a photo

Every pixel is remapped locally — this page has no server to send to.

Paint over the hair, sample it, pick a shade. The hue moves; every strand's highlight and shadow stays where the light put it.

Open an image, then pick the colour you want changed.

Open a photo, paint over the hair with the brush that is already armed, then sample a strand with the dropper.

Drop an image here, or browse for one

JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF decode in every browser; BMP, TIFF and ICO open where yours knows them, and a TIFF usually only does in Safari. HEIC pulls a codec the first time one arrives.

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Sampled
#be241f → #00999d
Coverage
20.9% of the frame
One frame, one selection, and the number that decides it. The paint rotates onto a teal hue at the lightness it already had, so every highlight and shadow in it survives. The brick, the tarmac and the jacket are outside the selection and are the pixels they arrived as. Every figure here is computed by the same function the tool runs on a photograph.

Region first, colour second

This door opens with the region brush armed rather than the dropper, because the hard part of recolouring hair is not the colour — it is keeping the change off everything that shares it. Paint roughly; the colour test inside the painted area does the fine work along each strand.

The mode is hue shift with lightness kept, so the shine on the crown and the shadow at the nape survive. Shade presets in the rail are starting targets named by colour: copper, auburn, burgundy, ash brown, golden blonde, rose, violet and blue-black.

Where a hair recolour goes wrong

  1. Dark hair and a light target: the same chroma floor that stops black cloth taking yellow.
  2. Skin at the hairline is close in hue to brown and red hair; keep skin-like protection on, or use the face finder to protect faces.
  3. Fine flyaways against a busy background carry the background's colour; expect to leave some untouched.

Identity photographs such as passport photos must be unaltered. Do not use a recolour on a photo you will submit as ID.

Questions people bring to this page

Why does the brush open first?
Hair shares its colours with skin, wood, leather and shadow, so a colour selection alone almost always catches something else. Painting “only here” over the hair first fences the selection; sampling inside it then picks the strands. The softness starts at 60% so loose strands fade rather than cut off.
Can black hair become blonde?
Not convincingly. Very dark hair carries little lightness range, and this mode keeps lightness so the strands keep their shine and shadow. A bright target on black hair reads as a tint on dark strands, not as bleached hair. Deep reds, burgundy, violet and blue-black work; pastel shades need hair that is already light.
Is there an automatic hair selection?
Not yet. A hair-segmentation model has not passed this site's licence and measurement checks, so none is downloaded. The person finder in the Regions panel can limit the change to the person, which keeps a same-coloured background out, and the brush does the rest.

Next door

Image data is never posted anywhere: decode, mask, remap and encode all happen inside this tab's memory, and that memory is released when you leave.