Color questions

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Lindsey_Ruffin
Aug 18, 2008
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I am just wondering if anyone knows the best way to change the color or an item. For example if I have a picture of a blue shirt and I need to change it red. I have tried the color replacement tool but instead of turning the color to the color I select (red), it changes it to a lighter shade of my selection (pinkish)

help! I would appreciate any ideas.
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alkine-23577
Aug 18, 2008
Make a selection around the area you want to change color (pen tool is great) go to hue/saturation and check colorize box. you can change color by moving the sliders.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:30:07 -0700,
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I am just wondering if anyone knows the best way to change the color or an item. For example if I have a picture of a blue shirt and I need to change it red. I have tried the color replacement tool but instead of turning the color to the color I select (red), it changes it to a lighter shade of my selection (pinkish)

help! I would appreciate any ideas.
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Freeagent
Aug 18, 2008
Make a mask.

Then you can do whatever you want with the shirt.

See this thread for more on the subject…

<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b62c23/44>
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Curvemeister
Aug 18, 2008
There are a number of good ways to do this. One of my favorites is with Image>Adjust>Hue Saturation. Select ant color from the drop-down menu and then click the eyedropper on the item whose color you want to change. Then move the hue slider around.

This first method will probably get the job done very quickly for you. Fine tune the edges by adjusting the sliders at the bottom of the window. If you want to preserve certain colors, do this in an adjustment layer, and paint the mask black where you want to keep the old appearance.

There is another good way that I’ll just mention. It is a little trickier, but more flexible. It involves converting the image to Lab mode, duping to a new layer, and using curves. Move the Lightness, a, and b curves to get the desired color, then using the layer’s blend-if sliders to limit the color change to the areas you want. This allows you to use the brightness, as well as hue, to control the effect, plus you can use layer masks if necessary.
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Freeagent
Aug 19, 2008
On note of caution with Hue/Saturation:

If the image has some color noise (most do), Hue/Saturation will still go in and pick on a pixel-by-pixel basis. There’s no feathering, and no regard for the neighbor pixel that may be outside the chosen color range.

The net result is that color noise can increase enormously, and in RGB mode this also means introducing luminance noise where none was before (a green that shifts to yellow will become lighter as well). The image can become very grainy before you know it.

The best way to prevent this from happening is to kill color noise before applying Hue/Saturation. Duplicate the layer and either blur or use a noise reduction filter, then set it to color blend mode.

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