How To Change A Specific Color In Photoshop

This Photoshop Color Replacement tutorial, shows how to change the colors in a photograph, or parts of a photo. It'south really like shooting fish in a barrel to modify colors and the big heros are Hue/Saturation and color blend manner. This tutorials shows how to supersede private colors too as how to get nice looking color looks on your images. Check out the video for step by step details and and so see the written steps for reference.

1. Fractional Colour Change in Photoshop

This technique will alter the color, merely nosotros will blend the color change gradually.

Offset with a photograph (This is from Adobe Stock, like all the images in this tutorial).

Pace i.

Choose the Quick Pick tool

Make a pick around the more than solid background.
Press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+I to inverse the selection, so just the dress is now selected. Don't worry about the person nosotros aren't changing that part of the photo.

Footstep 2.

Press Cmd/Ctrl+J to copy selection to a new layer.

Step 3. Irresolute the color

Press Cmd/Ctrl+U for hue saturation.
Move the hue slider to change the color, until y'all become a color you like.

Step four. Blending the color

Add together a new layer mask in the layers panel. (Click the add layer mask button to the right of fx)

Step5.

Cull the gradient tool

Make sure it's ready to foreground to background, and linear. Normal manner and 100%opacity.

Stride half dozen.

With the mask selected, drag the gradient horizontally through the image and you will se a overnice seamless alloy (this is demonstrated in the video if this is hard to grasp).

I like how the blue and red become purple where they are blending.

2. Changing groundwork color in Photoshop

Often we want to change a groundwork color and some people waste lots of time, trying to make unnecessary selections (I used todo this a long fourth dimension ago).

Step 1.

Brand a hue/Saturation Aligning layer

Step 2.

Open up the properties panel and click the finger nether preset.

Click on the yellow color. You will see in the gradient, that some sliders have appeared around the yellow tones, nosotros have isolated yellow.
(Or just choose yellows from the driblet down, simply non quite every bit accurate)

Step 3

Move the hue slider and notice that but the yellows are changing.

Brand it any colour you want. That's clutch, right? No selections needed.

3. Changing the colour of an object in a photo in Photoshop (changing article of clothing colour)

How often do we need to modify the color of wear? Its a cinch with this method.

Step i.

Make a hue saturation Adjustment layer.

Click the finger and click on the cherry coat to sample the colour.

Spoiler alert: this is just like the previous technique, but shows y'all how to tighten upwards the color and ready areas that are changed that we don't desire to change.

Footstep two.

Motility the hue slider to make the coat a different color, in this case we are changing red to a dainty hot pink/magenta.

Observe that their hair and pare as well changed color, we don't want that.

Step 3 refining the colour choice

Move the sliders in the gradient to refine the color choice. Some things like her lips and reflections on their faces can't be fixed in this stride, just it definitely looks a lot ameliorate.

Step 4.

The Hue/Saturation has a layer mask that we will employ.

Cull a brush and set the foreground color swatch to blackness.

With the mask selected, pigment out any of the areas that you want to restore to their original colors.

4. Painting in a new colour in Photoshop (recolor a car)

Sometimes, you only want to paint in the colors by hand. You can use this tutorial to pigment in the colors freehand, or use selections to assist you.

Stride 1.

Im going to select the color of the car's paint to make it easier.

Choose Select > Color range

With the eyedropper, click on the principal color.

Use the eyedropper+ to add to the color selection (How to use Color Range)

Refine the pick with the fuzziness slider.

Click ok to run into the marching ants selection. We demand to make clean up a petty flake.

Stride 2.

Press Q for Quick mask. You volition see a red overlay, indicating the selected areas.

Footstep 3.

Paint with white to add together to the selection, or blackness to subtract from the selection.

Step 4.

Create a new layer and change information technology to color blend way (click where it says "normal" and cull color)

Footstep 5.

With the choice active, choose a paint brush.

Click on the foreground color swatch to cull color.

Start painting and notice that the tones don't modify, just the colour. Yay color blend way.

Proceed going until you take painted the color.

The nice thing about using Color Range is that the reflections were also selected so it looks more than realistic in the chrome when nosotros change the color of them too.

Pace vi

You lot can as well choose Hue/Saturation and change the hue of the new painted payer at any time, to instantly punch in unlike colors.

Ok, that's how change the physical colors on the photos. Let's loos at some color furnishings.

5. Adding color overlays and color grading in Photoshop

Pace 1.

Open up the Gradients panel (Photoshop 2020 + only)

Drag a gradient onto the image.

Change to Color alloy style in the Layers Panel and change the opacity to suit.

A lower opacity gives a more realistic result.

Step two. Gradient Maps

Let's look at gradient maps, this gives a different upshot.

Cull A Gradient Map adjustment layer

Choose the aforementioned gradient as earlier

The left of the gradient (orange) is the shadows and right (Highlights) is red.

Change to color blend mode.

Click on opposite, then that orange does into highlights and cherry-red into shadows, looks much better already. You always want the lighter colors in the highlights.

Lower the opacity and run into how nice that looks.

For actress punch, y'all tin always combine the gradient map with the gradient overlay, don't forget to tweak the opacity on both aligning layers though.

6. scaling gradients for a color overlay outcome in photoshop

Here is a variation of the slope overlay. In this case, we utilize a gradient overlay adjustment layer instead of a straight slope layer.

The advantage is beingness able to easy scale the layer and alter its angle. Besides try dragging on the gradient in the image while the Gradient Fill box is open. Pretty bully huh? {You lot tin can meet this in activeness in the video.)

Cheers for checking this out. I hope y'all learned some new things about working with color. If you did, subscribe and tell you lot friends about PhotoshopCAFE! Spread the word 😉

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