Changing Color

TH
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Tom_Hanser
Jun 15, 2004
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There are several ways to do this, and I’ve done it many ways to images in PS.

The production scenario is this: taking a digital photograph of women’s makeup samples, and altering the color (accurately)in PS to produce color swatches for Ecommerce sites.

Some websites have beautiful swatches, very punchy and crisp. Others don’t.

I’m experimenting with various ways of doing this, such as color fills on a layer set to Linear Burn or Color blending mode. I’m still not happy.

Has anyone out there created these for the web?

I’d like to hear various opinions or suggestions on how you did it, and how it turned out.

Thanks

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LenHewitt
Jun 16, 2004
Tom,

altering the color (accurately) in PS to produce color swatches for
Ecommerce sites.<<

No matter how ‘accurate’ you are, they’re still going to look different on every user’s screen. Where colour is concerned, ‘accurate’ and ‘web’ just don’t go together.
TH
Tom_Hanser
Jun 16, 2004
I’m not concerned about how accurate the color is, I’m looking for the best PS technique to change the color of the swatch.
GS
Gustavo_Sanchez
Jun 16, 2004
Tom

If you are not too keen in accuracy, an index colour table derived from a picture might be what you are looking for.

But as for web colour pickers there are many out there and some of them are damned good <http://pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html> just for free.

Maybe I have not understood your idea.
TH
Tom_Hanser
Jun 16, 2004
Different color swatches:

< http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P61003&ca tegoryId=C108>

There’s lots of ways to do this, but I was wondering if anyone had experience doing this in a production environment, and getting good results.

I’m tinkering with Replace Color right now…

Thanks
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d._wade_thompson
Jun 16, 2004
use a hue/saturation ajustment layer and mask out the areas you don’t want to change
GS
Gustavo_Sanchez
Jun 17, 2004
The hue/saturation is good but I think that a gradient map would be quite effective as well and perhaps a bit more effective. It depends on the picture, of course.

The good thing about a gradient map layer is that you can save, alter and store them quite intuitivelly. A good masking is needed in any case.

For more complex things that would include overlaying a texture or pattern over the affecte objects I’d make a search for tutorials on using the displacement map filter. You can make wonders with it.

Obviously I had not understood you the first time.

Good luck 🙂
TH
Tom_Hanser
Jun 17, 2004
Thank you, all.

I just wanted to hear various opinions on this, and wondered if anyone had any experience at it.

I’ll try a gradient map next…
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BLUDVLZ
Oct 30, 2007
Desaturate the image, then use Levels to punch up the highlights (white slider to left) and Midtone & Black sliders to maintain the tones.

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