Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials
Color Correction / Replace Color
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It's really nice to be able to replace the colors of pixels in an image while retaining shadows, highlights as well as midtones. And if we put our mouse over the brush to hold it down you'll see just that tool. This is the color replacement tool and it works in a remarkable way and it also gives you some options to change up here. So the first thing I'm going to do is change my foreground swatch to this blue here and this actually picks something like this. Now the way this tool will work is in one of these a sampling methods here. The first one is a way to sample continuously while the second one is a way to sample once and this one will allow you to sample a backward swatch. Let me talk about each one of these here. If we paint with this guy here which is continuous the brush will constantly evaluate what pixel it is currently over and then change it with this color. So let's go ahead and try that, so currently I am clicking on red and it's painting the blue on the red and as I hover my mouse and move it and paint on the other parts of the image it's going to swap all the colors to this blue. That's not what I want in most cases. So I'm gonna go to once, it will stay in the first color I click and paint those colors that I selected. So I'm gonna go ahead and paint on the red and you'll notice that it's not leaking into the background at all. Its gonna try it's very best to stay in the sampled color which is red. That can change of course how far or how close it stays to that by changing a tolerance. So I increase my tolerance a little tiny bit I can paint more of that red. And you have to be very careful tolerance because you could eventually make the number so high, let me go to like a hundred for example I'm painting everything anyway. So that's what tolerance will do for you, let me bump that back down to something reasonable like 30 or 40. What I can also do is I can paint with the background swatch, so I can choose to click here and I'm gonna move this over a little bit and show you that I'm gonna click in this leaf here or this petal and that is the color that I'm going to sample from. So I am going to make sure I have this on and when I paint it's going to look at the color that I have selected in the background and it's gonna fill just that area, now of course it grabbed some of this because some of that orange is in those parts of the leaf as well. So that's what that would do for you. We also have some other options available to you, which are discontigious, contiguous and fine edges. Now what discontigious will do is it will change the sampled color that is under cursor so that it will change as you paint. We also have contiguous and contiguous will change the colors to the one directly under the cursor and we also have fine edges which tries it's best to look for the edges and try to stay in that region as well. So these tools are very, very powerful and it just requires a little bit experimentation and also a little bit of getting used to the tolerance. You also have the ability of course to turn anti aliasing on and off while you're working. But in the long run, once you get used to this tool you'll find that as you are able to paint and stick with just the colors you want to change and slowly but surely change the colors of leaves, car paint, light bulbs, people, or whatever you want to, using this great tool which is the color replacement tool, once again that lives under the brush tool.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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