Changing colour of lines in outline drawing

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dcole
Aug 25, 2004
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I want to change the colour of the lines in a black and grey line drawing which will be superimposed on other layers in an image. I’d be grateful for advice on how to do this. I can’t find a way of achieving it with the Replace Colour tool but there must be a way to do it.
Thanks.

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Courtney_Armbruster
Aug 25, 2004
Are you trying to change the grey to be one color and the black to be another? If you just want them both to be in a color, try the image-adjustments-hue/saturation and click on "colorize." Then you can use the hue, saturation, and lightness sliders to make them any color you want. Make sure your document is in RGB or CMYK and not greyscale though.

Courtney
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dcole
Aug 25, 2004
That’s excellent! Thanks. I never saw the colorize option until you pointed it out.

That seems to achieve what I was after. What I want to be able to do is take a black outline drawing and convert the line into another colour leaving the white background clear.

David
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rwwilson
Aug 25, 2004
Not seeing the image this may not help, but you can select out the gray areas with the magic wand (quick way)then hit delete on your keyboard, (make sure you change the name of the layer from BACKGROUND to some other name first) then all you have left on the layer is the lines, you can then use image-adjust-hue and saturation as above, this way all you have is the lines.You may have to play with the tolerances for the magic wand a bit to get all the grey selected, if there are some fragments of grey left you can always use the eraser to erase them. Tell me if this helps

Richard

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