Color Replacement tool problems in Photoshop CS for Windows

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Ronald_Larm
Jun 22, 2004
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I have a photograph of the outside of a home while under construction. The front door is white and hasn’t been painted yet. My client needs to use the photograph for marketing purposes and would like the door to be "painted."

The color that the door will eventually be is maroon and this color is already present within the photograph (it’s in the color scheme in the facia of the home) so I thought that I could simply: 1) create a selection outlining the door, 2) use the eye dropper to select the correct color from the facia and 3) use the Color Replacement tool to re-color the door with the correct color as the foreground color. But it doesn’t work.

Instead of the correct dark maroon color I’m getting a light pink color!?!? The home also has some dark brown paint in it and I was playing around and re-colored that to see what would happen…and it worked great! The brown was turned into the perfect maroon!

Why doesn’t the Color Replacement tool work on the white door as well as it works on some of the dark brown accents? Is there some kind of opacity control for the tool that I’m not aware of? What do I need to do to make it work for the white door?

Not knowing what the problem is the following may be overkill! The Options settings for the Color Replacement tool are: 1) Brush diameter=50; Brush hardness=100%; Brush spacing=25%; Brush angle=0; Brush roundness=100%; Brush size=pen pressure; Brush tolerance=off, 2) Mode=Color, 3) Sampling=Continuous; 4) Limits=Contiguous; 5) Tolerance=93%; 6) Anti-Aliased is selected.

Please help…thanks!

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Chris_Cox
Jun 22, 2004
It does work on the white – if you tell it to do the correct thing.

A white door has no saturation, and no hue.

If you replace just the hue, then you’ll get something seriously pastel.

If you replace the hue and the saturation (color mode) you’ll get something light – because the white door is still very light and you haven’t touched the lightness.

So you need to adjust the lightness, then replace the hue and saturation.

Also, if you’ve already got a selection of the door – why are you using the color replacement tool instead of an adjustment? The tool is for when you don’t have a selection.
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Ronald_Larm
Jun 22, 2004
Thanks Chris,
Your reply was teriffic! I was able to follow your direction well enough to get the job done. Re: "…why are you using color replacement…" Because I don’t have a lot of knowledge/training on photoshop and don’t know how to do the "adjustment" you refer to. I have invested in Photoshop CS Bible by Deke McClelland but have not completed it yet!

Thanks again!
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Nick_Decker
Jun 22, 2004
Ronald, if I’m not mistaken, Deke has a brief video tutorial on the Color Replacement Tool on the Video Workshop Training CD that comes with PS CS. You might want to take a look at it; it demonstrates how the selection feature of the tool works.

I find myself using the tool quite a bit. I live on a lake which I photograph often for various publications. In the spring, the lake water is often brownish from runoff and the Color Replacement Tool, used carefully, can turn it to a more pleasing shade of blue-green.
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Chris_Cox
Jun 23, 2004
Ronald – Deke should give you a lot more detail than I did 😉

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