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Offline 3Deep

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changing colors in Photoshop
« on: July 02, 2012, 12:41:12 PM »
Hey guys I know I,ve did this before, but now I draw a blank I need to change this house to a lime green on a purple back ground for a customer to look at.  Noemally I just send them a grayscale and tell them what color will be printed this customer want to see what it looks like on the purple.

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Offline Gilligan

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Re: changing colors in Photoshop
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2012, 01:18:00 PM »
Use a selection tool to select what you want colored and then create a new layer and fill it with the color that you want, then set the blending option on the layer.  Then do the same for the other color.

That's how I would do it.

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Re: changing colors in Photoshop
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2012, 01:20:37 PM »
Not close to a PS expert, but I just did this on a crappy piece of art. With either the wand or color range, select, and change the fill color. If using a tint, first change the fill to white

Grayscale makes the selection a lot tougher through!

I rarely mess with layers simply because I have little to no experience with them, and only output as channels.
« Last Edit: July 02, 2012, 01:23:41 PM by Frog »
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

Offline aauusa

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Re: changing colors in Photoshop
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2012, 01:32:36 PM »
is this what you are wanting?  i use ps cs4 and they a have an premade action called photo toner technique/lab black and white



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Re: changing colors in Photoshop
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2012, 01:34:04 PM »
Grey scale can actually make recoloring something easier.

I removed all the color from a motorcycle that I wanted to experiment with color schemes for this reason.  I wanted to paint my own lines on it and not use their scheme.  Made it all flat grey and the same shade then I was able to draw my own selections and paint those.

Black and red one was the original.

BTW, aauusa, that looks wicked creepy!

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Re: changing colors in Photoshop
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012, 01:48:18 PM »
Ok, I got bored.

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Re: changing colors in Photoshop
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 02:15:20 PM »
Yep that it, but only thing is there won't be any black just the crappy lime green on purple talk about a mess, but that is what they want.

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Re: changing colors in Photoshop
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2012, 05:06:47 PM »
is this what you are wanting?  i use ps cs4 and they a have an premade action called photo toner technique/lab black and white






Looks like a house in my old neighborhood where the guy got busted for storing plutonium or something! lol!
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?