Black and White Photo How to Make Hair Brown

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Hi,
I have a black and white photo that I am colorizing and would like to know if there is a way to make the hair or clothing brown either using Lightroom Classic or Photoshop. I am having trouble in trying to achieve this. Thanking you in advance for any advice or suggestions you may provide.
 
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Thank you so much for your replies. I am still trying to learn Photoshop and will have to give that a try in trying to make the hair color brown. I see that there are more color choices in PS than Lightroom and maybe it really can't be done in LR. I really appreciate the videos that you included in your reply. Thank you. Some of the photos that I am trying to restore date back to 1900.
 
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Yes, I watched all three of them. Two of them were done in PS and Anthony Morganti's was done in LR but it was about isolating a color and everything else is in black and white. In your post you indicated to "pull the global saturation to zero and 'paint' in the color with a local brush" but under the color patch there isn't a brown color. Is there a special way in order to make brown? How would you do this? I have colored in all of the other colors but not brown. I'm stuck. Thank you for your help in this matter.
 
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Tinkerbell said:
Two of them were done in PS and Anthony Morganti's was done in LR
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The "tutvid" one is also done in Lightroom, and seems to be what you want?

For brown, choose an orange-y colour (maybe hue 36?), then after painting with the adjustment brush you can reduce the brightness via the "Exposure" slider.
 
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