Actually there is many ways to change the color of an object in photoshop. Earlier, we already looked at how to do this with, and also learned how to change hair color in Photoshop with.
These are not all methods, today I will show two very simple ones, and in future articles I will talk about a couple more methods using other adjustment layers.
Method number 1
Briefly describe the application this method. Open image and create new layer(I recall all the tricks).
Then change the blending mode of this layer by choosing Hue from the drop-down list at the top of the Layers palette (located at the bottom of the list).
After that, select by pressing the B key, click on the foreground color indicator, in the palette dialog box that appears, select a hue and click on the OK button. With the new layer selected, paint on top of the object.
If you paint over too much, you can temporarily select the Eraser tool by pressing and holding the E key. And you can prevent such situations in advance by adding a layer mask to the new layer and hiding the areas that do not need to be changed with black.
Note
If the area to be repainted is surrounded by black, white, and gray colors, you can safely paint over the latter, and they will not change at all. This is because in the Hue blend mode, areas filled with color affect only those areas of the underlying layer that already contain color.
Method number 2
Remember the menu command? Similar menu command Replace color can be used to highlight one shade and replace it with another. This command works very well if the color to be replaced is more or less uniform and concentrated in some area, like the car body in the picture above.
Selecting the command from the menu Image - Correction - Replace Color, you will see the dialog box of the same name.
It already has the Eyedropper tool selected, so click on the hue in the image you want to replace. It will appear in a square with the inscription Color in a group of controls Selection at the top of the dialog box.
In a group of controls Replacement in the lower part of the dialog box, click on the square located above the inscription Result to select a new shade. When you click on the OK button. If you need to correct the selected shade, you can use the sliders Color tone, Saturation and Brightness(also found in the Selection controls group). Here's what happened:
Please note that in addition to an ordinary pipette, there are pipettes with small signs "+" (plus) and "-" (minus) nearby. Use them to widen/narrow the range of shades you want to change.
As you can see, I overdid it a little and my car wheels also turned purple. This suggests that this method may not always be helpful.
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1 voteHello dear readers of my blog. Today we will again comprehend the basics of working with Photoshop. I wonder how you would look if the color of your hair or skin was completely different? I have already talked about.
Today I will tell you how to change the color of a layer in Photoshop without any problems. I won’t mention once again how to work with them, well, I’ll tell you about various tools: a magnetic lasso, a magic wand, and so on.
All the relevant articles are already on my blog, and if you accidentally stumbled upon this publication and want to fill in some gaps, you can easily find out all the information of interest from the materials prepared in advance.
Today we will quickly go over the main tools, at the end you can find a good video instruction, and over the next 5-7 minutes you will meet with a sea of screenshots that will help you figure out what manipulations will be necessary in order to change the color of the picture or her area.
I will work in Photoshop CC, but if you have a different version, then it's okay. All functions are simple. The software is installed in Russian. By the way, if you have an English version, I can also recommend the article "". Very convenient, makes life easier.
Color correction
So, I have already selected the object, or rather the background of the photo, and transferred it to a new layer using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + J.
Now go to the tab "Image" - "Correction". There are a lot of options here that will help you change the hue: Brightness / Contrast, Color Balance, Photo Filter, and even Gradient Map. You can try each of them in order to understand from your own experience how this or that tool works, choose an interesting method that you like specifically.
I'll use Hue/Saturation.
You can pull on different sliders, achieving an excellent effect.
As you can see, the differences cannot be called striking, but you don’t need to fool around with the selection so that the layers look uniform and professional, and the object does not stand out from the general background.
Striking changes
To make the background a completely different color, I will use the "Color Replacement" tool in the same "Correction" tab (how to draw a black background for Photoshop -).
After opening the dialog box, your cursor will change. The pipette tool will be hidden in it. Just click on the color you want to change. Use the Scatter slider to define the area you want to work with, and then click on the color box above the Result entry, or work with the Hue, Saturation, Lightness sliders again.
I chose the first option. I clicked on “Result” and now I choose a shade and color on the palette so that the soft blue turns into pink.
Professional, fast, easy
The most successful tool for working with flowers in my opinion complex objects- color replacement brush. Long hold the left mouse button on a regular brush until an additional menu opens.
Now select the shade to which you will change the color of the layer.
It remains only to paint over the necessary areas, as you can see, all the shades are preserved. Very fast and convenient.
Can be repainted to any suitable option.
Video instruction
Bonus
Another way to change the color with a new layer does not impress me too much, but I guess that it may appeal to some and certainly someday come in handy in the future. So, I create a new layer, and then select the blending mode for it "Color tone".
This is how it should end up.
Now I take any color, for example, yellow, the Fill tool and fill the newly created layer.
You can try other blend modes as well. Don't be afraid to experiment.
With the help of an eraser, you can return the girl to a normal complexion.
By the way, do not forget that many professionals use . Still don't know how to work with her? Then the post I linked to will come in handy.
Well, if you want to learn the maximum about all the tools that are in Photoshop, I can advise the course of Zinaida Lukyanova " Photoshop for beginners in video format ". You don't have to wait for anything. Just a few weeks and you will know everything that this program is fraught with.
See you again and good luck.
Everyone knows that in order to change a photo or picture, you should "go" straight to Photoshop. The graphics editor able to work miracles, because in his arsenal - great amount all kinds of tools. All of them are aimed at something for each user.
By the way, in this application you can not only add brightness, contrast, etc., you can generally change the color in it, say, turn a yellow car into a red one. Moreover, this is done very simply, and generally does not require any skills or specific knowledge. Intrigued? In this case, I think the topic of how to change the color of an object in Photoshop will be interesting for you.
Replace color
There are several ways to “conjure” a color in Photoshop, and in this article I will talk about the two most popular ones. The first method uses the Replace Color tool, and here is how it is implemented in practice:
Hue/Saturation
I bring to your attention another way to change the color. After opening the image in the layers palette, click on the small icon at the very bottom in the form of a half-filled circle, then select "Hue / Saturation". Next, select the color that will be replaced. Next, use the eyedropper cursor to click on this color. Now move the slider in the Hue field until you get the desired hue, don't forget to adjust the brightness and saturation as you do so. 
Now activate the layer mask. With a black brush, go over those areas where a color change is not required. Save your changes and enjoy the result.
When editing images in Photoshop, it often becomes necessary to change the color of an object or part of it, and do it in such a way that it retains its texture, shadow, transition effects, and other attributes exactly. For obvious reasons, simple repainting with a brush is not applicable here, this method is only valid when working with solid objects.
When replacing the color of textured or non-uniform objects without using additional tools not enough. So, how to replace the color of an object in Photoshop.
Replacing color with changing layer blend mode
The easiest way to replace a color in Photoshop is to use the Blend Mode. Now we will not analyze exactly how the interaction of colors works when using different modes, it is better to get down to business right away. In our example, we will change the color of the inner circle of the hand-drawn gear. Right now it is blue, but we want it to be red and still retain all of its gradients and effects.
Open the images in Photoshop, create a new layer and change its blend mode to .
Select the desired color in the palette and start painting with a regular brush directly on top of the object. Isn't it too easy?
Yes, if the areas adjacent to the object being edited are black, white or gray (of any gradation). In all other cases, the area to be repainted must first be selected with a lasso, magic wand, or mask.
Color replacement by color correction
This method is more suitable for replacing the color of objects that have a more or less uniform tone, such as clothing, a flower, a car body, and the like. Open the image in Photoshop and choose from the menu Image -> Correction -> .
In the window that opens, take the eyedropper and click on the color you want to replace, after which it will immediately appear at the top of the window.
Then click on the square with the color (Result) at the bottom of the dialog box and select the desired color in the palette that opens.
Changes can be viewed in real time. To more accurately determine the object to be repainted, you can use the scatter and pipette option «+» and «-» , allowing you to add and remove adjacent areas.
Replacing color with a special brush
AT latest versions Photoshop has a special brush that allows you to replace the selected color, including neutral, with any other. It is located in the same tool group as the regular brush. The essence of its work is to replace the color of adjacent pixels, the error of which is determined by the user himself. Yes, with permission 1 percent only one particular color that is in focus of the brush will be replaced.
With admission 30 percent The brush will replace the color of not only those pixels that will be in its focus, but also adjacent pixels that have a similar color tint. At 100 percent tolerance, all colors will be replaced. The main difficulty when working with a brush "Color Swap" in that the user has to select the tolerance empirically. As in our opinion 14-17 percent for starters, it’s enough, if necessary, this threshold can always be raised.
The ingenious developers of the Adobe gem probably did not suspect that the Color Replacement tool in Photoshop would become, among other functions, one of the leaders in terms of frequency of use.
Recolor brush
You will find a brush called "Color Replacement" / Color Replacement in the "Brush" tool group (in Photoshop versions CS3 and younger). This tool is good for its simplicity (for recoloring objects, you can do without laborious selection), but at the same time it is not entirely predictable.
In essence, this circle-and-cross cursor color substitute works like a regular brush, painting the area first, preserving the textural and structural features of the image, but with some caveats.
Firstly, unlike a normal brush, in its settings, in addition to size and hardness, you can set the intervals (when moving), the angle of inclination and the shape of the print, as well as adjust the pen pressure (when using graphics tablets).
During the painting process, the program continuously analyzes the paint within the brush print, replacing it with the specified as the main color in accordance with the selected mode.
By default, the "Chroma" mode is set, in which the color and saturation change, but the brightness remains the same, and the new hue, of course, will not exactly match the selected color.
In the "Brightness" mode, the original tone is preserved, but the brightness changes.
In the "Hue" mode, the color will change tonally to the declared paint, while the original brightness and saturation will be preserved.
By selecting the "Chroma" option, we will change the saturation, while maintaining the brightness of the original paint.
The Saturation mode retains the brightness but changes the original color's hue and saturation.
To the right of the mode window on the settings panel at the top, there are three options for sampling.
By selecting the first one ("Continuous"), we instruct the program to continuously scan the color in the brush print area while we hold the button, painting over the object.
If we specify "Once", the color sample taken at the first click will be used as a sample. This option is suitable for uniformly colored areas.
In the third option ("Background Sample"), only areas related to the background color will be repainted.
The Limits setting determines the extension of the replaced color as the mouseover tooltip asserts.
The "All Pixels" option replaces all pixels in the "target" area of the brush. With "Adjacent Pixels" selected (default), we will paint within the brushprint only those that are adjacent to the color pixels directly below the cross. In the "Edge Selection" mode, all the pixels of the sample will be recolored, but with emphasis on the edges.
In principle, by choosing the appropriate brush size, you can confidently repaint in the boundary zones of the object, even accidentally getting into a different color, if the "Tolerance" parameter is correctly selected, which determines the error when choosing relative colors, as the hint says. As the tolerance increases, the range of replaced tones expands, and vice versa.
Thus, we can conclude that the "Color Replacement" brush in "Photoshop" is a rather flexible tool, and, despite its "straightness", in skillful hands it can do a lot.
All commands that can radically change the color without destructive consequences for the image are in the "Correction" list in the "Image" menu. These are functions such as "Color Balance", "Hue/Saturation", " Selective correction colors" and "Replace color".
In the "Color tone" mode - the "chameleon" object
Another undeservedly rarely mentioned and infrequently used way of color transformation lies in the modest "Hue" blend mode. By selecting the "Color" adjustment layer and specifying the desired paint, the blending mode on this layer is then changed to "Color tone". The object, of course, will not be repainted exactly in the specified color, but the hue will change. If you then double-click on the fill thumbnail of the adjustment layer, the color picker opens and you can cycle through the options while watching the chameleon effect on the canvas.
The excess is erased with a soft black brush on the mask of the adjustment layer, which is what it is good for.
Of course, there will be more fuss with colorfully colored objects, so it’s better to repaint objects that are more or less uniform in color in this way.
Instead of an adjustment layer, you can create a new layer, change its blending mode to "Color tone" and, choosing the desired color, paint over the object with a brush, then correcting the flaws with an eraser.
A word about color balance
By selecting "Color balance", we can pre-colorize the selected object using the Cyan - Red, Magenta - Green and Yellow - Blue color pair engines. Tonal balance is adjusted in shadows, highlights and midtones.
Hue and Saturation
The hue and saturation adjustment functions are very commonly used for tasks such as color replacement in Photoshop.
The color change algorithm in the dialog box called by the "Hue/Saturation" command is based on adjusting the hue, saturation, and brightness parameters. Here we can shift the overall color scheme a picture or a selected fragment (object) and adjust the colors separately in different parts of the color range by selecting the desired tone with a pipette.
In the list of ranges below (under "Style"), where the default is "All", there are six more color ranges that can be processed at the same time, but with separate parameters.
Given the power of the tool in terms of color correction, it will not be difficult to recolor the selected object here.
Selective color correction
This function allows you to change colors from the HSB (hue, saturation, lightness) model, but CMYK, by controlling the amount of cyan, magenta, yellow and black in the selected color. Having selected the object to be repainted in the image, select the required color group in the "Colors" box and use the sliders to adjust its composition.
Sometimes, instead of the command "Selective color correction" (Selective Color) in the menu "Image"\u003e "Correction", it is better to use the adjustment layer of the same name (Layers> New Adjustment Layer or the button on the layers panel at the bottom). In this case, it becomes possible to correct the effect on the mask of the adjustment layer by removing everything superfluous with a black brush.
Replacing white and black
While changing the color with the corrective functions, you may notice that the white color cannot be recolored in this way. Replacing the white color in "Photoshop" is solved very simply: if this area is pre-selected, and then, having deleted, repainted.
However, this cardinal solution is destructive. It is justified only in the case when it is not the original drawing itself that is important, but its color. Or if you just want to give the white color a different hue, try converting the image to CMYK and using the Selective Color feature, and then back to the RGB color space.
Depending on the uniformity of the color, you can use any tool from the extensive arsenal of Photoshop tools to select (Quick Selection, Background Eraser, Magic Eraser, etc.), but the best option most often it turns out to be "Color Range" in the "Select" menu. And how a new color takes root in place of the removed white depends on the quality of the selection.
By the way, if you need a replacement in Photoshop, all the arguments regarding recoloring the white color are valid for this case as well.
Replace color
This command from the Adjustments list in the Image menu (or the appropriate adjustment layer) is easier to use than Hue/Saturation, and its results are more predictable.
In the dialog box, use the pipettes to select the paints to be changed. Using the "Hue", "Saturation" and "Brightness" sliders, we achieve the desired effect. To control the selection, it is better to select the "Selected area" checkbox (the image will be shown as a mask). The Scatter slider is used to correct the scatter outside the selected area.
This color replacement method is most effective for contrasting and not very colorful images.
Recoloring in Lab mode
One of the most operational and relatively simple ways object recoloring is a color replacement in Photoshop using the Lab color mode, although for effective use For this method, it is desirable to have at least some idea of the Lab color space.
So, the L coordinate specifies the value of brightness (lightness), defined in the range from 0 (the darkest) to 100 (the lightest), and the color parameters are specified by the coordinates A (color in the range from green to red) and B (color in the range from blue to yellow).
Thus, in Lab, the brightness value is separated from the chromatic color parameters, which makes it possible to influence the brightness, contrast, and color of the image separately. It is this circumstance that sometimes makes it possible to speed up the processing of images, for example, if it is necessary to replace the color.
True, this option is not suitable for repainting colorful multi-colored objects and objects with complex contours (hair, fur). Let's say you need to change the color of a car. In Lab, color replacement in "Photoshop" involves, first of all, transferring the image to this mode.
We transfer the picture to the Lab mode (Image> Mode> Lab), then select the desired color from the libraries by going to them double click by the main color on the toolbar, and remember the values of the L, A and B channels.
In the "Pipette" tool group, select "Color Standard" and put a mark (control point) in the representative area of the replaced auto color, thereby calling the "Info" panel.
Now we add an adjustment layer "Curves" and for each channel we find the position of the curve in accordance with the fixed values, referring to the "Info" palette.
The curves of channels A and B must necessarily cross the center of the graph, and the curve of the luminance channel L must necessarily maintain the angle of inclination.
Now double-click on the image layer to open the "Layer Style, Blending Options" window. We transfer attention to its lower part ("Overlay if"). Here, by manipulating the sliders for each parameter (L, A and B), we separate the car from the background or other objects.
Repainting everything
By mastering the methods of color replacement listed above, you can recolor almost any object. Depending on its complexity, one method or another may be preferable. For example, changing the color of hair in Photoshop is easily done using the Hue/Saturation and Color Balance adjustment functions, but here the main task is to qualitatively select an object with such a complex (usually) contour.
Most often, a quick mask is used for selection (a button with a dotted ring at the very bottom). Then, the selection is made using the special features of the "Refine Edge" command in the "Select" menu.
The selected area is usually copied to a new layer (Ctrl + J), then the painting tools noted above are applied to it.
And such simple tasks as replacing eye color in Photoshop, which use standard tools Allocations are generally settled in two accounts. The eye can be selected by selecting "Lasso" or "Oval" (for pupils), then, as in the previous case, replace the color by applying the "Hue/Saturation" correction.
The Color Replacement brush works well for this too.
Everything is the same with color
Most user requests related to recoloring objects in Photoshop, as a rule, do not specify a specific version of the editor, and if they do, color replacement in Photoshop CS6 is of interest much more often than others.
Perhaps this is due to a more significant update of the program in relation to the previous version than it happened before. The changes affected the background save and autosave features, selection tools, cropping, Magic Wand and Eyedropper, brush options, some filters, fill functions, layer editing, interface colors and much more.
There are new possibilities for working with RAW files in new version Camera RAW7, gradient fills, artistic image styling, video editing, layer finder in multi-layered documents, and a new color correction Color Lookup etc.
Nevertheless, the corrective functions in the "Correction" list in the "Image" menu have not changed much during the program modernization, so recoloring objects, for example, in CS2, and replacing colors in Photoshop CS6 are practically no different in essence. for those owners of earlier versions who believe that in new modifications there are more options for replacing colors.
