How to Change Colors In Paint Shop Pro 8?

[MasterRocko]

Hello I was just wondering how I would be able to change the colors black and white, to blue or any other color I wanted in PSP 8? I can do it in X with the change color tool, but dont know how to do it in 8. I know how to change all other colors except black and white, use the Hue/Saturation/Lightness, but it does not seem to work for those colors.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[MasterRocko]

Could anyone help me out on this..?

Thanks again..

 

[vacunita]

Have you tried the color Swap tool. Not sure, but I think it is under the dropper tool.


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[MasterRocko]

What are you talking about.. know there is no such tool under the dropper tool. I am using PSP 8 not X!

Thank you.

 

[vacunita]

Using Paint Shop Pro 8.

The Dropper Tool, that is the sixth icon on the toolbar from the top-down. It has a little arrow next to it. press it an you get a little menu the second icon is the Color Replacer.

Don't know if I can make it any clearer.

And just so we are sure, it is in Paint Shop Pro 8. not X.





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[MasterRocko]

Ok thank you.. is there anyway to mass change the colors black and white to another color, so it would make doing things a lot easier..

Thanks.

 

[vacunita]

How about just making the replacer Brush really big.

Once you select the Color Replacer, go to the horizontal toolbar and increase the size. Maybe to 300 and the tolerance to say 50 so it also changes anything that might be less than black, but still dark enough to be considered black by the human eye. like dark gray.

With a size like that you should be able to change the color in a couple of strokes.

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[MasterRocko]

Yes Im sure I could, but Im asking if there is anyway to do it all real quick like Hue/Saturation/Lightness. It would make things a lot quicker and much simpler. Im asking if there is a way.

Thanks again.

 

[MasterRocko]

I was also wondering what would be true black and white? Turning an image greyscale or turning the saturation all the way down..

And also does anyone know how I would make it so I could duplicate a layer then greyscale it without it affecting the duplicated layer that I just made.

Thanks.

 

[vacunita]

Depending on what you mean by True Black and White, If you mean utilize only 2 colors to render the image the reduce the color depth two 2 colors. If your talking about a black and white picture type deal, then grayscale is what you want. As it will use varying degrees of gray to render shadows and light. preserving the depth in the picture.

I am not aware of any method of changing black and white with one click. There might be some plugins available that do it, but you are going to have to google for them.

For your NEXT question:

You want to grayscale a layer and then not have it be
affected? This does not make sense.

Or you want to duplicate a layer, and then grayscale the opriginal layer resulting in 2 layers one in grayscale and the other in color?

If it is the second one, just go to the layer pallette and duplicate your origianl layer, and then grayscale the new one, that way you'll have 2 layers,one which is in color, and the other in grayscale. To alternate between the two, you could clikc on the little eye icon on the layer pallete and it will enable or disable whichever layer you are currently looking at.



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[MasterRocko]

Thank you but that does not work, the second one. When I go to change either one to greyscale it changes them both regardless of what layer I choose.

 

[vacunita]

Sorry my mistake, you can't grayscale just one layer. But you can reduce its saturation to 0 and attain the same effect.


Adjust->Hue and Saturation-> Colorize and take the saturation down to 0.



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[MasterRocko]

Thank you I got it, just save the image in greyscle and open it up then make a new layer, covert it to 24 bit colors then open up the same image in color and put it in the new layer. Came to me right away.

Thanks though.