changing wall background

dwolf wrote:

Here’s a picture of a piece of furniture I made… I shot it in front of a wall with screws and other things on the wall… I realized I can easily get rid of those, but I thought maybe another color to the wall would be nice… that’s something I don’t know enough about… I could select the wall and fill with a color, but that would lose the shadows, and I know it would look like I replaced the wall color… can someone guide me in doing this. I have not decided what color I would change the wall too….
thanks Joel
http://www.tileandwood.com/html/deco.html

Here’s what I would do:

Copy the background layer and erase the wall (with a mask). There are several ways to do this but I won’t go into that because that’s easily found on the net. And everybody has his or her own ways of masking/erasing.

Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the Background and the Copy. Check "Colorize" and move the Lightness slider a bit down. This way you can change the color of the wall with the Hue slider. (and play with the Saturation slider of course). And this way you will keep your shadows on the wall.

Here’s a snapshot of the way it looks in my PS after I made this (quick) example:
http://tinypic.com/illwlc.jpg

HTH

PS If you want you could also put in something completely different in stead of the background:
http://tinypic.com/ilm3q0.jpg

If I’m asking to much… but
I did search for the answers but could not find it… I never did work with masks… maybe today I will learn a new technique… but you said erase the wall with a mask. Could you direct me where to go or just explain ?? And then … Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the Background and the
Copy this confuses me too… sorry and thanks Joel

"Trace Elliot" wrote in message

dwolf wrote:

Here’s a picture of a piece of furniture I made… I shot it in front of a wall with screws and other things on the wall… I realized I can easily get rid of those, but I thought maybe another color to the wall would be nice… that’s something I don’t know enough about… I could select the wall and fill with a color, but that would lose the shadows, and I know it would look like I replaced the wall color… can someone guide me in doing this. I have not decided what color I would change the wall too….
thanks Joel
http://www.tileandwood.com/html/deco.html

Here’s what I would do:

Copy the background layer and erase the wall (with a mask). There are several ways to do this but I won’t go into that because that’s easily found on the net. And everybody has his or her own ways of masking/erasing.

Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the Background and the Copy. Check "Colorize" and move the Lightness slider a bit down. This way you can change the color of the wall with the Hue slider. (and play with the Saturation slider of course). And this way you will keep your shadows on the wall.

Here’s a snapshot of the way it looks in my PS after I made this (quick) example:
http://tinypic.com/illwlc.jpg

HTH

PS If you want you could also put in something completely different in stead of the background:
http://tinypic.com/ilm3q0.jpg

I think I got the mask layer…
Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the
Background and the copy… How do I do that ?? J

"dwolf" wrote in message

If I’m asking to much… but
I did search for the answers but could not find it… I never did work with masks… maybe today I will learn a new technique… but you said erase the wall with a mask. Could you direct me where to go or just explain ??
And then … Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the Background and the
Copy this confuses me too… sorry and thanks Joel

"Trace Elliot" wrote in message

dwolf wrote:

Here’s a picture of a piece of furniture I made… I shot it in front of a wall with screws and other things on the wall… I realized I can easily get rid of those, but I thought maybe another color to the wall would be nice… that’s something I don’t know enough about… I could select the wall and fill with a color, but that would lose the shadows, and I know it would look like I replaced the wall color… can someone guide me in doing this. I have not decided what color I would change the wall too….
thanks Joel
http://www.tileandwood.com/html/deco.html

Here’s what I would do:

Copy the background layer and erase the wall (with a mask). There are several ways to do this but I won’t go into that because that’s easily found on the net. And everybody has his or her own ways of masking/erasing.

Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the Background and the Copy. Check "Colorize" and move the Lightness slider a bit down. This way you can change the color of the wall with the Hue slider. (and play with the Saturation slider of course). And this way you will keep your shadows on the wall.

Here’s a snapshot of the way it looks in my PS after I made this (quick) example:
http://tinypic.com/illwlc.jpg

HTH

PS If you want you could also put in something completely different in stead of the background:
http://tinypic.com/ilm3q0.jpg

dwolf wrote:

I think I got the mask layer…
Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the
Background and the copy… How do I do that ?? J

Make sure your background layer is selected. Click on the round little black & white icon at the bottom of the layers palette and choose "Hue/Saturation" from the fly out menu. Then the "Hue/Saturation" dialogue box will appear, as I showed you earlier.

Look here:
http://tinypic.com/im1pvn.jpg

Good luck & HTH

PS Do you have a version of this picture with a higher resolution? That will make things much easier to work with and gives much better results.

Thanks… tonight I will give it a try… yes I do have a higher quality pic.. I notice one thing I’m going to need to perfect before this works.. is selecting the background… I’ve tried many techniques over the years from online tutorials, some much more complicated than other, but I do realize if the background selecting isn’t perfect that will ruin it…. I’ve been using the magic want and then the lasso tools to finish it off… I do notice that the magic want doesn’t always go right up to the edge of the bed… any suggestions ? Thanks So Much…. Joel
"Trace Elliot" wrote in message

dwolf wrote:

I think I got the mask layer…
Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the
Background and the copy… How do I do that ?? J

Make sure your background layer is selected. Click on the round little black & white icon at the bottom of the layers palette and choose "Hue/Saturation" from the fly out menu. Then the "Hue/Saturation" dialogue box will appear, as I showed you earlier.

Look here:
http://tinypic.com/im1pvn.jpg

Good luck & HTH

PS Do you have a version of this picture with a higher resolution? That will make things much easier to work with and gives much better results.

dwolf wrote:

Thanks… tonight I will give it a try… yes I do have a higher quality pic.. I notice one thing I’m going to need to perfect before this works.. is selecting the background… I’ve tried many techniques over the years from online tutorials, some much more complicated than other, but I do realize if the background selecting isn’t perfect that will ruin it…. I’ve been using the magic want and then the lasso tools to finish it off… I do notice that the magic want doesn’t always go right up to the edge of the bed… any suggestions ? Thanks So Much…. Joel
"Trace Elliot" wrote in message

dwolf wrote:

I think I got the mask layer…
Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the
Background and the copy… How do I do that ?? J

Make sure your background layer is selected. Click on the round little black & white icon at the bottom of the layers palette and choose "Hue/Saturation" from the fly out menu. Then the "Hue/Saturation" dialogue box will appear, as I showed you earlier.

Look here:
http://tinypic.com/im1pvn.jpg

Good luck & HTH

PS Do you have a version of this picture with a higher resolution? That will make things much easier to work with and gives much better results.

in this case I would use the Pen Tool to trace the bed (so you can make a real sharp selection and have the possibility to make smooth curves), and make a selection from the Path I created with the Pen Tool. Then use that selection to make the Mask on the copied Background layer. But I have to add that the Pen Tool is a hard tool to work with if you’re not familiar with it. But certainly worth learning.

Thanks so much for your help… Looks great !!! now the hard part.. picking a color. So many colors look great, including black….. thanks "Trace Elliot" wrote in message

dwolf wrote:

Thanks… tonight I will give it a try… yes I do have a higher quality pic.. I notice one thing I’m going to need to perfect before this works.. is selecting the background… I’ve tried many techniques over the years from online tutorials, some much more complicated than other, but I do realize if the background selecting isn’t perfect that will ruin it…. I’ve been using the magic want and then the lasso tools to finish it off… I do notice that the magic want doesn’t always go right up to the edge of the bed… any suggestions ? Thanks So Much…. Joel "Trace Elliot" wrote in message

dwolf wrote:

I think I got the mask layer…
Now put a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer between the
Background and the copy… How do I do that ?? J

Make sure your background layer is selected. Click on the round little black & white icon at the bottom of the layers palette and choose "Hue/Saturation" from the fly out menu. Then the "Hue/Saturation" dialogue box will appear, as I showed you earlier.

Look here:
http://tinypic.com/im1pvn.jpg

Good luck & HTH

PS Do you have a version of this picture with a higher resolution? That will make things much easier to work with and gives much better results.

in this case I would use the Pen Tool to trace the bed (so you can make a real sharp selection and have the possibility to make smooth curves), and make a selection from the Path I created with the Pen Tool. Then use that selection to make the Mask on the copied Background layer. But I have to add that the Pen Tool is a hard tool to work with if you’re not familiar with it. But certainly worth learning.

dwolf wrote:

Thanks so much for your help… Looks great !!! now the hard part.. picking a color. So many colors look great, including black….. thanks "Trace Elliot" wrote in message

Glad it worked out 🙂
Did you use the Pen tool?

Can I see the result somewhere?

dwolf wrote:

Thanks so much for your help… Looks great !!! now the hard part.. picking a color. So many colors look great, including black…..

After going through all the possible colors, I usually end up with the first color I liked. 🙂

I’ll pass on the results soon…. I used the magic wand and then other select tools enlarging the section to get the selection where I wanted it… I’ve never tried using the pen tool….. that takes a steady hand ??? "Trace Elliot" wrote in message

dwolf wrote:

Thanks so much for your help… Looks great !!! now the hard part.. picking a color. So many colors look great, including black…..

After going through all the possible colors, I usually end up with the first color I liked. 🙂

dwolf wrote:

I’ve never tried using the pen tool….. that takes a steady hand ???

No, I would rather say it takes a steady mind….