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looking for a little colorizing help in PS7

Isabella Maginot
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10-02-2006 23:03
Thanks in advance! I am learning how to make clothing and my husband got me PS&. m I have a few great things I finally figured out how to make. But what I cant figure out is how to change the color of the clothing in PS7 any and all help is so welcomed tyty so mcuh in advance
Eloise Pasteur
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10-03-2006 01:37
I'm sure this hasn't changed since PS4.0 or earlier but apologies if it doesn't work quite like this.

There should be a floating palette with marque and move buttons at the top somewhere on your screen. For me it's top left. I'm going to attach a photo so you can see it. Yours may look a little different, but the basics are going to be the same.

About 2/3 of the way down or so there's a couple of blocks of colour, with a bent double headed arrow between them. They're foreground and background colours. Pressing D will bring them back to black and white, pressing X will swap (exchange) them. Clicking on either colour (certainly the foreground colour) will bring up a colour picker for you, choose your colour and click OK, the relevant bit will change and you will paint etc. in your new colour.

looks like pics are down again, try this:

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Govindira Galatea
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10-03-2006 09:38
I think Isabella is looking for a better way of color matching than the Hue and Saturation method she knows. When we were talking last night, I had mentioned to her a PSP function that I like to use called "manual color" which uses a source and target color chosen by the dropper. Is there a better way in PS to do color matching than using what she uses now: Hue and Saturation?
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10-03-2006 11:33
There are a million ways to re-color in Photoshop, ranging from simplistic to highly sophisticated. The method that most closely resembles what Govindira seems to be talking about is called "Replace Color". My memory could be a little off, but I'm 99% sure it hasn't changed since PS7.

Activate the layer you want to affect by clicking once on its name, and then go Image -> Adjustments -> Replace Color. A window will pop up, giving you two tools with which to select your source color (an eyedropper and a color picker), and a second color picker with which to choose your result color. As with practically all dialogged tools in Photoshop, make sure the Preview option is turned on in order to see what the results will look like before you commit by clicking OK.

As I said, there are tons and tons of ways to alter colorization in Photoshop; this is just one of them. Isabella, if you're interested in the subject, I'd recommend also exploring the Color Balance, Channel Mixer, and Curves tools (all under Image -> Adjustments) as well as the use of Adjustment Layers and Overlays. You'll find looking up all those topics in your Photoshop Help to be very beneficial.

In addition, this is slightly off topic, but since it sounds like you're using PS 7.0, I'd highly recommend upgrading to 7.0.1 via the free patch at Adobe.com. Photoshop 7.0 was released with many flaws, not the least of which was a significant problem with the way it generates transparency for TGA files. (For more information on that, see the Transparency Guide at the top of this forum.) The patch corrects the flaws, saving you a lot of headaches.
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Isabella Maginot
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10-03-2006 21:23
Thank so much everyone! Will be fiddeling with PS7 tongiht and see what happens. And Chosen thanks for the advice about ps 7.1 will do that tongiht also
Robin Sojourner
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10-04-2006 15:12
Hi Isabella!

Yep, there are dozens of ways to change colors in PS, and have been since PS had color!

But the Hue & Saturation is really more powerful and flexible than a lot of people realize. I'm not saying that it's the best tool for your particular needs, but you might want to take a second look at it.

When you open it, you'll notice that there's a blue box at the top that says "Master." Like all similar boxes in PS, that's really a drop-down menu. Like this.



If you choose a single color from that menu, instead of Master, you can change the Hue and Saturation of just that color. Like this.


But it's even more powerful than that! See the sliders at the bottom? The central part determines exactly which hues get changed completely. The lighter bits to either side allow you to "fade out" the change. You can move the sliders by grabbing the white handles and dragging them left or right.

So, if you want to change just part of the Red hues to green, you can do that, too. Like this.


You can adjust the range like that for all the colors in the menu. So, if you wanted, you could wind up with something like this!


You can also select certain colors using Select > Color Range, and Fill them with whatever color you want. Or you can go to Adjustments, and Adjust the color balance, use Replace Color (as Chosen said,) or use Selective Color to change a single color into a different one.

If you're want to change a small area, you can also just paint the color you want by setting the Brush blending mode to Color in the Brush Options.

In PS CS2, there's also a Color Replacement Brush, that allows you to use the brush to replace whatever color is in the Background swatch with the color in the Foreground swatch. (You can also set it to replace Hue, Saturation, or Luminosity, if you prefer.) But I don't think that was there in PS 7. If it was, I certainly never found it!

But yeah, lots of ways to skin that particular cat! :D

Hope this helps!
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