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Photoshop CS / Color Replacement




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Subtitles of the Movie (Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration / Photoshop CS / Color Replacement)

þÿ [00:00:00.0] Let us take a look now at a questionable tool that is brand new in Photoshop CS. And I say questionable because the color replacement tool I think was intended with the best of goals in mind [00:00:12.0] but it would appear upon using this tool quite extensively that Adobe hurried it into Photoshop CS as if to get before they were due to release it because it is very non-intuitive and the adjustments are not very good. [00:00:25.0] They don t give the result I think they were intended to give. So I think Adobe has a bit more work to do on this tool. I think in subsequent versions of Photoshop you will see it refined. Now let us take a look at the way that it works right now. [00:00:37.0] Photographers really are not going to have a whole lot of applications for this tool. You might see it in pre-press and you might see it in line art and graphics and that sort of thing. But in photography I think it really has very limited usage. [00:00:49.0] But one of the areas that I think it'll work very well is in correcting eye color. If you ever have the occasion to do that the color replacement tool can work very well. The color replacement tool resides up here in the healing brush tool area, [00:01:02.0] along with the patch tool. You click on it and you can immediately see that the brush is a cross hair surrounded by a circle. Before we do the corrections on Brandi s eyes let me demonstrate to you the way that this is intended to work. [00:01:15.0] What happens is that whatever color the cross hair touches is going to change. And it will ignore colors that are not part of the cross hair is touching. So let us enlarge this even further and we are going to go up here and make sure that the mode is in color mode which it is. [00:01:34.0] We have chosen the color that we want to change Brandi s eyes to. But let us just demonstrate how this is supposed to work. Now you see in this particular demonstration that it's coloring what it touches. [00:01:52.0] And that is because way up here the tolerance is at 54% meaning that it is going to change everything that touches it pretty much. So let us go back and start over and we are going to reduce the tolerance to say 19%, just arbitrarily. [00:02:07.0] Try it again and we see that it does a better job in segregating the areas that are changed. Any area that the cross hair touches are going to change to the new color that resides in the foreground swatch. [00:02:23.0] And you can see that Brandi s eyes have not been effected by this change. And this was the way that it was intended to work. [00:02:36.0] Trust me folks when I tell you this thing is not working the way it should be. I have played with this tool and played with this tool and it just does not give the result that it is supposed to. [00:02:51.0] There is a nice special effect on Brandi s eyes but it just, it is not what it was intended to be. I am very sure. Right let us go back start over and do what we originally set out to do and that is to change the eye color for Brandi. [00:03:09.0] So what we are going to do. So here is what happens if you attempt to use that large circle on Brandi s eyes. It also changes areas around the eyes which is what we don t want. [00:03:22.0] We don t want to change anything other than the iris color in the eye. See how sloppy that is. It's not supposed to work that way. So the only way to get around that is reduce the size of the circle [00:03:39.0] and then we can zero in on the specific area that we want to change and we simply click hold down and drag around. And voilà, we have got dynamite. [00:03:51.0] New blue eyes for Brandi, let us zoom that out. Take a look at it and those are intense blue eyes. Probably a little more so than we would have enjoyed but you get the idea. Be careful about this tool. [00:04:05.0] The color replacement tool-- it is a flawed. It does not work the way it is supposed to and I think Adobe has a lot of work to do on this but what the heck, we found one use for it. [00:04:15.0]

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration
Author: Phil Hawkins
SKU: 33473
ISBN: 1932072705
Release Date: 2004-01-27
Duration: 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons
Captions: No
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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