How can I avoid hair-edge color contamination when changing clothing color in Photoshop?

Asked 12/23/2023

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I’m changing the color of clothing with a Hue/Saturation adjustment in Photoshop, but where long hair overlaps the clothing, the hair edges pick up unwanted color and turn purple/gray. The image was processed from RAW in Lightroom and then sent to Photoshop. What’s a good way to keep the clothing recolor from bleeding into fine hair detail?

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I was able to do somewhat better by using luminosity masks... I used "apply image" to create the mask and then edited the mask for contrast. But there are many ways of creating luminosity masks; including some free plugins/actions.

This is what one of the masks looked like. enter image description here

And this is my result next to your result.

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A good approach is to refine the adjustment with a luminosity-based mask instead of relying only on a broad Hue/Saturation selection. One community answer reports better results by creating a mask with Apply Image, then increasing the mask’s contrast and editing it so the recolor affects the clothing more cleanly while protecting the fine hair edges. In practice, the fix is to build a better mask for the adjustment layer, then manually refine around the hair where needed. Luminosity masks can help separate overlapping tones and reduce the purple/gray fringe caused by the color adjustment bleeding into semi-transparent hair detail.

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