Changing Colors

You could use Image >Adjust > Hue/Saturation, but if the car is in a layer with other "non-car" stuff, this other stuff will change color too. Or you could make a selection around the car using the Lasso Tool(s), and then do the same thing. Or, after making the selection, you could click on the Layer mask icon on the bottom of your layers palette to "hide" the rest of the image and then apply a layer style of "color overlay" to the car. Add the layer style by clicking on the Add Layer Style icon at the bottom of your layers palette. Select a blend mode of "color" and play with the opacity.

Another option is Image > Adjust > Variations.

Peadge 🙂

"td" wrote in message

Very novice using ps 7.

I have a car in a pict and I want to change the color of the car from, for example, red to blue.. I want to keep all the highlights, etc.
Sorry if this is a really stupid question of if it doesn’t make sense.
🙂

TIA

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or …
image – adjust – selective color.

if the car is red, use the sliders on the "red" menu to change the color for the reds… use the black slider to see what will be affected, but dont make a final adjustment too far from zero with the black.

if there is other red stuff in the image, draw around the red car first.

very basic but if you play with it, you will get the point.

Peadge’s methods are probably better, but this is another method I use sometimes to change yellow grass to bright green, or to take the reds out of a bad digital pic, as it only affects the color range named.

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Michael Evangelista
Southern Utah Web Design
www.suwebs.com

"td" wrote in message

Very novice using ps 7.

I have a car in a pict and I want to change the color of the car from, for example, red to blue.. I want to keep all the highlights, etc.
Sorry if this is a really stupid question of if it doesn’t make sense.
🙂

TIA

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[re changing the color of a car]

Good ideas from Peadge and Michael. I would add that you may get some good results converting the image to Lab mode, and swapping the ends of the a and b curves. If that gets the car looking the way you want, copy and paste the a or b channel, bump the contrast with levels, and use that as the basis of a mask to limit the color change to just the car.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

wow… will have to try that some time…

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Michael Evangelista
Southern Utah Web Design
www.suwebs.com

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

[re changing the color of a car]

Good ideas from Peadge and Michael. I would add that you may get some good results converting the image to Lab mode, and swapping the ends of the a and
b curves. If that gets the car looking the way you want, copy and paste the
a or b channel, bump the contrast with levels, and use that as the basis of
a mask to limit the color change to just the car.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

td wrote:

I have a car in a pict and I want to change the color of the car from, for example, red to blue.. I want to keep all the highlights, etc.
Sorry if this is a really stupid question of if it doesn’t make sense.

An easy option is to use the Color Replacement Tool for this. That’s why Adobe added this tool, but hardly anyone seems to use it. The advantage over other methods is that you don’t need selections or masks (unless the car is against a background with more or less the samen color).

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

also paintbrush in ‘color’ mode…

Cheers, Jason
Folio: www.gadgetaus.com/photos

Mike Russell wrote:

[re changing the color of a car]

Good ideas from Peadge and Michael. I would add that you may get some good results converting the image to Lab mode, and swapping the ends of the a and b curves. If that gets the car looking the way you want, copy and paste the a or b channel, bump the contrast with levels, and use that as the basis of a mask to limit the color change to just the car.

To be even more creative – dulpicate the car layer, do the a and b adjustments and then play with the layer blending options to limit the change to the car 🙂

/Per

The Gadget Shop wrote:

also paintbrush in ‘color’ mode…

Not quite. The difference between a paintbrush in ‘color’ mode and the color replacement tool is that you have to be very careful not to touch anything that isn’t the car if you use a paintbrush like that. The paintbrush will paint *everything*. The Color Replacement Tool will only paint those pixels that were in the original color, leaving anything else (highlights, glass, chromium) alone.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Have you considered using the colour range?? once u have identified all of the bodywork u wish to change then use hue/saturation and either use the hue slider or colorize, I did this on a photo of the net changing it from yellow to red in less than five mins without the need for any other tools, masks or modes. Hope this can be a helpful suggestion I think its the same as Johan but he called it a colour replacement tool

Mark M

"Johan W. Elzenga" wrote in message

The Gadget Shop wrote:

also paintbrush in ‘color’ mode…

Not quite. The difference between a paintbrush in ‘color’ mode and the color replacement tool is that you have to be very careful not to touch anything that isn’t the car if you use a paintbrush like that. The paintbrush will paint *everything*. The Color Replacement Tool will only paint those pixels that were in the original color, leaving anything else (highlights, glass, chromium) alone.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Mark Mannering wrote:

Have you considered using the colour range?? once u have identified all of the bodywork u wish to change then use hue/saturation and either use the hue slider or colorize, I did this on a photo of the net changing it from yellow to red in less than five mins without the need for any other tools, masks or modes. Hope this can be a helpful suggestion I think its the same as Johan but he called it a colour replacement tool

No, it’s not. The color replacement tool is a special brush, that picks up one color and replaces it with another while you paint. It leaves other colors untouched. It’s a bit hidden, that’s why you apparently don’t even know it exists. You can find it under the popup where you can select the Healing Brush and the Patch Tool. The third one is the color replacement tool. Its icon is a brush with an eye (because it’s often used to remove red eyes in photographs).

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Thanks Johan I found thanks I have played about with it and can see what u mean 🙂

Mark M

"Johan W. Elzenga" wrote in message

Mark Mannering wrote:

Have you considered using the colour range?? once u have identified all of
the bodywork u wish to change then use hue/saturation and either use the hue
slider or colorize, I did this on a photo of the net changing it from yellow
to red in less than five mins without the need for any other tools, masks
or modes. Hope this can be a helpful suggestion I think its the same as Johan but he called it a colour replacement tool

No, it’s not. The color replacement tool is a special brush, that picks up one color and replaces it with another while you paint. It leaves other colors untouched. It’s a bit hidden, that’s why you apparently don’t even know it exists. You can find it under the popup where you can select the Healing Brush and the Patch Tool. The third one is the color replacement tool. Its icon is a brush with an eye (because it’s often used to remove red eyes in photographs).

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/