recoloring black object/design? 1

[Nicole0000]

I knew how to do this but I think it was mostly with designs not black in color.

I am looking to recolor a black object/design to red (or blue etc.), changing hue doesn't work....again if it's originally a color other than black, it works fine, but not with black. Recolor option under image menu, same thing.

I know this is one of the most basic things in photoshop and looking up "recolor in photoshop" went the hue/sat or recolor route, but all had objects not black.

Thanks in advance for the answer.

Nikky

 

[mezzi5]

If its CMYK why not move the channels around...copy the black channels to M+Y=Red, delete the black channel.
Then change colour mode to CMYK to affect the change.

 

[apepp]

...is this for print work?

...if so you can colorise the greyscale image in a layout application perhaps?

...be handy if you can post a screen capture of the image in question, as techniques can differ, to get what you want...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...if you have to do it in photoshop, and the image is greyscale, one way is to convert to multichannel, add 3 white alpha channels above the black channel, then convert to CMYK...

...make a selection of the black channel (apple/command + click the channel), then on a new layer, invert the selection and fill with a color...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...if it is a black area inside an already color image then a different approach is required, in that you need to isolate the area first...

...if this is the case then it might be as straight forward as we wish it could be...

Andrew

 

[cebebe]

Hi Nicole, if you have a grayscale image you have to change mode in color first, I choose RGB here. But Hue/Saturation don't works in this case. Select the black area you want to change, take Curves, select the color you want in the channel box and raise the black side of the curve. Needs to adjust 2 curves for not primary colors (for example blue and red for pink). Hope this helps you, cb

 

[Foamcow]

Try using a gradient map layer to assign different colours to grey values.


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[Nicole0000]

thank you everyone.

Nikky.