Will Hair Color alter my face, skin, hat, or background?

No. The route returns a lossless PNG and assigns new pixels only inside the accepted hair alpha. Face and body skin, clothing, accessories, headwear, and background stay outside that mask and are copied unchanged.

Why can Hair Color refuse a portrait?

It stops when no hair component has strong, face-anchored evidence—for example on a bald head, covered hair, a distant face, or a heavily blurred image. This prevents a guessed box from tinting skin, headwear, or background.

Hair Color applied to the same source image — The same source image before and after applying Hair Color.

Original source image before Hair Color — The same source image before and after applying Hair Color.

Hair Color — Recolor Verified Hair Only Online

Recolor only verified hair while preserving the face, skin, headwear, clothing, background, and original strand luminance.

Upload a photo for the Hair Color effect

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Supported formats include JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, RAW, PSD. Maximum file size: 11 MB.

What you can do with the Hair Color effect

Review the available effect capabilities before you begin.

Apply the Hair Color effect to any photo
Fine-tune the effect strength to taste
Preview your photo live as you edit
Download your edited photo in high quality
Apply Hair Color to many photos at once

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About the Hair Color effect

Hair Color first finds each clear face, then runs a six-class portrait mask on an enlarged head-and-shoulders crop in both the original and mirrored directions. A region is accepted only when strong hair evidence is connected to the head and wins against face skin, body skin, clothing, accessories, and background. The accepted edge is aligned to source detail, then color is changed in LAB while the original luminance variation preserves strand texture. Pixels outside the verified hair mask are copied unchanged in a lossless PNG; the tool refuses uncovered-hair uncertainty instead of regenerating the face.

How to use Hair Color

Upload a photo, adjust the Hair Color intensity, compare its processed preview with the source, and download the finished result.

Why use the Hair Color effect?

Hair Color, tuned to your photo

Use the intensity control to balance the Hair Color treatment with the detail and character of your original photo.

A fast Hair Color workflow

A reduced Hair Color preview keeps adjustments responsive. Free downloads are clean and web-size; Premium or a credit unlocks the original resolution.

Secure Hair Color processing

Hair Color uploads are processed on secure servers and automatically removed under the normal Pixoate retention policy.

How it works

Processing

Hair Color uses an AI action. Any separate allowance is shown before this effect starts processing.

Best for

sharp portraits with a clear face and visible, uncovered hair against a reasonably distinct background.

Less suited to: hats, turbans, large hair occlusions, extremely fine braids or flyaways, severe backlighting, motion blur, distant faces, and hair that closely matches a busy background.

Ways to use Hair Color

Preview auburn, copper, blonde, brunette, black, or creative colors before dyeing hair.
Recolor hair without regenerating facial identity, skin texture, clothing, or background.
Apply the selected color independently to each clearly detected person whose hair mask passes verification.

Hair Color questions

Will Hair Color alter my face, skin, hat, or background?: No. The route returns a lossless PNG and assigns new pixels only inside the accepted hair alpha. Face and body skin, clothing, accessories, headwear, and background stay outside that mask and are copied unchanged.
Why can Hair Color refuse a portrait?: It stops when no hair component has strong, face-anchored evidence—for example on a bald head, covered hair, a distant face, or a heavily blurred image. This prevents a guessed box from tinting skin, headwear, or background.