Changing certain colours within of a picture

[greeercat]

Hi I've got a picture of some soccer players, and I want to change the colour of one of the strips to make it look like my team. I want it to look completely natural. I've tried the image/adujust/hue_saturation way but it looks naff. Any other ideas????

Cheers,

Chris

 

[leonec]

Goto "select" then "color select". this will mask out the color of your choosing then you can use an adjustment layer of your choosing, like "color balance".

 

[ticke]

Desaturate that section and do a color layer overlay. That works well for me sometime. U can also try out other different layer filters too like multiply or screen.

 

[rpwin]

I would suggest that you make use of the replace color facility. If you roughly mask the shirts and copy them to a new layer you avoid making colour changes to other elements in the image.

With careful use of the eyedroppers, good, natural resuts can be achieved.

I have made a very quick example which you can find here:

http://www.rpwdesign.dk/replacecolour.pdf

(you will need Acrobat Reader to view it)

The pink and green colours in the flowers (bottom image) are the replaced colours.

Have fun!

Ron Winslow

http://www.rpwdesign.dk

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