Adobe developers could not even imagine that the “Color Replacement” tool they invented in Photoshop, among other functions, would be a leader in terms of frequency of use.
A brush called Color Replactment is available in the Brush tools section. This tool distinguished by its simplicity. To recolor an object, you won't need time-consuming selections. However, at the same time, such a tool is not entirely predictable. This color substitute, which has a cursor with a cross in the shape of a circle, works like a regular brush. Paint the area with the main color and preserve the structural and textural features of the image.
Although there are some caveats. If we compare it with a normal brush, then in addition to hardness and size, in the settings it is possible to set intervals, the shape of the print, and the angle of inclination when moving. Among other things, you can adjust the pen if you use graphics tablets. When painting, the program constantly, within the brush, analyzes the paint and replaces it with the main color in the specified mode. The Color mode is the default. Here the saturation and color change. As for brightness, it remains the same. But the new shade purchased will not exactly match the color that the user chose.
By selecting the “Brightness” mode, you will maintain the original tone, but the brightness will change. To maintain the saturation and original brightness, you should use the “Color Tone”, where only the color will change tonally for the declared paint. In the “Color” option, you can change the saturation and maintain the brightness of the paint in the original. The “Saturation” mode will preserve the brightness, but at the same time, the saturation and original tone will change.
At the top right of the settings panel from the mode window there are three sample options. The first one is called "Continuous". That is, the user goes to a program where, in the brush area, the color is constantly scanned as long as the button is held down while painting the object. By selecting the "One time" option, you will get the color that you selected the first time you clicked. This method is more suitable when areas are uniformly colored. The third option, "Background Pattern", only recolors areas that are similar background color.
If you use your mouse to hover over the “Constraints” parameter, you can expand the replaced color. By clicking the "All Pixels" button, the user will have the opportunity to replace all the pixels where the brush's "sight cursor" is located. The “adjacent pixels” option is suitable for painting only the colors under the cross that are adjacent to the pixels. If the user selects Edge Enhancement mode, all pixels will be recolored.
With the appropriate selection of the brush size, it is possible to repaint the object in the boundary zones, even accidentally getting into a different color. But in this case, it is necessary to correctly select the “Tolerance” mode, which determines the error when choosing relative colors. If you increase the tolerance, you can expand or subtract the range of tones. From all this it becomes clear that in Photoshop such an element as a brush, designed to replace color, despite its “straightforward” nature, is a fairly flexible tool and can do anything in the right hands.
All commands that can radically change color without consequences are saved in the “Image” menu in the “Correction” list. These include functions such as Saturation/Hue, Color Balance, Color Replacement, and Selective Color Adjustment.
Another undeservedly mentioned and rarely used transformation option is the blending mode, which is called “Color Tone”. For correction, select the “Color” layer and indicate the required paint, changing the blending mode on this layer to “Color Tone”. Of course, an object cannot be repainted with a given color with precision, but the shade will change.
If you then double-click on the fill thumbnail for this layer, a color palette will appear, with which you can use different options and observe the chameleon effect on the canvas. Anything that is superfluous will be erased with a soft black brush. If the objects are colorfully colored, there will be more fuss with them. Therefore, this method is best used for repainting uniformly colored objects. Instead of an adjustment layer, you can make a new layer and change its mode to “Hue.” To do this, select the desired color, paint over the object with a brush, and correct any errors with an eraser.
What about color balance?
When you select it, you can first change the color of the selected object using the sliders color pairs"Magenta-Green", "Cyan-Red", "Yellow-Blue". Here the tone balance is adjusted in the highlights, shadows, and midtones.
Saturation and color tone.
To replace colors in Photoshop, they often use the “Saturation Adjustment and Tone Correction Functions.” For such purposes, the “Saturation/Hue” function is installed. With its help, you can adjust the parameters of color tone, brightness and saturation. The user here can shift the selection or the overall color tone of the picture and individually adjust the colors in different areas of the color range if he selects the desired tone with the eyedropper.
At the bottom of the list of ranges, you can see the word “All”, which appears under the “Style” item. There are several more color ranges that can be processed simultaneously, but the parameters should be separate. Repainting the desired object in the required color will not be difficult, since the color correction tool has great power.
The Selective Color Correction feature helps you change colors and control the amount of magenta, cyan, black, and yellow in a selected color. In the image, select the object that needs to be repainted. In the “Colors” window, select the desired color group. Then, using the sliders, adjust the composition. It happens that in the “Adjustment” / “Image” menu, instead of defining Selective Color, it is better to use an adjustment layer of the same name (Adjustment Layer / Layers or the button located at the bottom of the layers panel). Then you can adjust the effect on the layer mask and remove all excess with a black brush.
How to replace white and black?
Using the corrective functions and changing the color, the user noticed that, therefore, the white color cannot be repainted. However, replacing the white color in Photoshop is a very simple task. It is enough to first select this area, then remove it and repaint it. But this drastic decision will be justified only when the color is important, and not the design itself. If you want to make a white color with a tint, convert the image to CMYK and use the selective color correction function.
Then return to RGB. Of the many Photoshop tools, you can use any tool: Quick Selection, Magic Wand, Magic Eraser, Background Eraser, and so on. Everything will depend on the uniformity of color. However, the most commonly used option is “Color Range,” which is found in the “Selection” menu. The quality of the selection will determine how the new color will take root in place of the white one that was removed. If you need to replace the black color in Photoshop, then the same steps will do as when repainting the white color.
Changing colors.
In this case, the “Correction” button (or this adjustment layer) is applied in the “Image” menu. It's easier to use than Saturation/Hue. In addition, its result is more predictable. Using the eyedroppers in the dialog box, select objects that need to be painted. The desired effect is achieved using the Saturation, Hue, and Brightness sliders. To show the image as a mask, select the “Selected area” checkbox for control.
The Scatter slider is used when scatter correction is needed outside a certain selected area. This color replacement option can be effectively used for both contrasting images and not very variegated ones.
Lab mode and recoloring in it. This method of repainting is relatively simple, but very efficient. To use effectively this method, you need to have some idea of the Lab space. The letter L stands for brightness, which is defined in the range from 0 to 100. The letter A stands for color parameters in the range from red to green. B – color range – from yellow to blue. It turns out that in Lab you can separately influence the brightness, color of the image and contrast.
Thanks to this circumstance, images can be processed in an accelerated form. Eg. If there is a need to change the color. However, this option is not suitable for repainting objects with complex contours (fur, hair), colorful objects. For example, it is necessary to change the color of a passenger car. In order to implement your plan in Photoshop in Lab mode, you should switch the picture to Lab mode, select the desired color from the libraries and double-click on the main color in the toolbar.
Next you should know the meanings of the letters in the word Lad. Go to the “Pipette” tool group and stop at “ Color standard" Here, in the color of the car to be replaced, we put a control point (mark). To do this, call the “Info” panel. Next we need a “Curves” adjustment layer. Consulting “Info”, we find for each channel.
The position of the curve that corresponds to the recorded values. The center of the graph must be crossed by the curves of the channels of two designations A and B. At the same time, the L curve must adhere to the angle of inclination. Next, double-click on the image layer and open the “Style” window. Next, pay attention to the “Overlay if”, which is located in its lower part. For each parameter there are sliders, by manipulating which we separate cars from any objects or from the background.
How to repaint everything?
Having learned listed methods By changing the colors described above, you can practically recolor any object in any way. The method should be selected depending on the complexity of the work. For example, you can easily replace hair in Photoshop using the Saturation/Hue or Color Balance correction functions. The main task here will be to qualitatively highlight the required pattern with a complex contour. As a rule, it is better to use a quick mask here (the key with a dotted ring, which is located at the bottom of the panel). After that, the selection is completed using the main capabilities of the group.
Not many people went to the Selection menu to Refine Edge. Why and how is this done? Typically, the selected area is copied to Ctrl+J (new layer) and used to apply the coloring tools that are checked. You can also change eye color in Photoshop. To do this, use the usual selection tools. With the eye selected, choose Oval Marquee or Lasso. Then, replace the color using the Saturation/Hue adjustment. This problem can be easily solved with the Color Replacement brush.
Many users who recolor objects in Photoshop are not interested in a specific version of the editor, and if they specify it, they are much more often interested in how to replace the color in Photoshop CS6. Maybe this was due to a significant program update. Changes have been made to the functions of the selection tools, autosave, background save, Eyedropper, Magic Wand, cropping, some filters, brush options, fill functions, interface color, layer editing and so on.
New possibilities have opened up when working with text in Camera Raw7 (in new version) file editing – RAW, gradient fill, video editing, new color correction, searching for the required layer in multilayer documents, etc.
If we talk about no less corrective functions in the “Image” menu in the “Correction” list, then there have been no special changes in the modernization process. Therefore, repainting objects, for example, replacing color, CS2 in Photoshop CS2, is essentially no different. This note is addressed to those owners earlier versions who believe that new modifications have greater possibilities for replacing colors.
In this tutorial, we'll take a look at the color replacement program and learn how it can quickly change the color of objects in a photo.
We will show you not the most professional, but the easiest and fastest way to change the color in an image. This method doesn't always give the desired result, but it usually works well for simple tasks. It's a simple tool and worth a try before moving on to more complex and time-consuming methods.
Color Replacement Tool
The Color Replacement Tool was first introduced in Photoshop CS, and if you're working in Photoshop CS or CS2, you can find it grouped with the Healing Brush tool.
If you have Photoshop CS3 or CS4, CS5 or CS6, click on the Brush tool icon and hold it until a drop-down list of other tools in the group appears, select “Color Replacement”.
Once you select the Color Replacement tool, your mouse cursor will turn into a circle with a small cross in the center.
You can adjust the size of the circle using hotkeys - brackets [ or ]. The left bracket reduces the size, the right one increases it. To adjust the hardness of the brush, add a Shift keystroke (Shift+left square bracket makes the edges soft, Shift+right square bracket makes the brush harder).
How the Color Replacement tool works:
When you drag the Color Replacement tool on an image, Photoshop continuously scans a color swatch located in this moment under the cursor cross. This is the color that will be replaced with the current foreground color. Any other pixels that surround the round cursor also change color as it moves over the object.
For example, if you place your cursor on a blue color in a photo and the foreground color is red, the color underneath the cursor will change to red in the cursor area. There are several options for customizing the tools in top panel, but we'll look at that later.
In the Tools palette you can see the current color settings. The default color is black:
To change the foreground color, click on the top square (color swatch) and select any new color from the color palette. Choose green color. Click OK and close the color picker.
Look at the tool palette. The foreground color pattern has changed. Now the foreground color is green. Now, if we paint on the image with the Color Replacement tool, the original color will be replaced with green:
Let's take an example of a photograph of a girl with balloons:
She looks happy with a blue balloon in her hand, but maybe she would like to have a green balloon. Let's see what we can do for her. Using the “Color Replacement” tool, clicking on the ball with the cursor will begin moving inside it. Photoshop begins to replace the blue color with green.
To change the color of the rest of the ball to green, you just need to hold down the mouse button.
If you accidentally go beyond the boundaries of the ball and hit the yellow wall behind it, Photoshop will begin to change yellow to green:
Tolerance
Everything is simple and hassle-free until you reach the edges of the ball. If you look closely, you will notice that the edges of the ball are not completely closed, a blue stripe is noticeable.
We've already mentioned that the Color Replacement tool has several options that you can customize in the Control Panel. One of these parameters is “tolerance”. “Tolerance” determines the sensitivity to the color being replaced. The default tolerance is 30%, which is good Starting point. But this is not enough for our case. We increase the tolerance to 50%, which will allow the Color Replacement tool to affect a wider range of colors:
We have established greater tolerance. Now, let's undo the last step and try finishing the edges again.
We finish processing in the remaining areas and our blue ball magically turns into green, thanks to the “Color Replacement” tool:
Use color from image
In the example above, we randomly selected a new ball color from the color picker in Photoshop. You can just as easily select a color directly from the photo itself. To do this, with the Color Replacement Tool active, press the Alt key and your cursor turns into an Eyedropper Tool.
Click on the area of the photo that contains the color you want to use. Photoshop will make this color the main background color. In the Foreground and Background color icon, the top square changes to the color you selected.
Let's take the color of the girl's blouse:
If you look at the Foreground color swatch in the Tools panel, you'll see that the color you clicked on has become the foreground color:
We can paint the ball with this color again using the Color Replacement tool:
Blend Modes
Blend Modes
The reason the Color Replacement tool preserves volume and texture is because it uses blend modes to blend new colors.
The new color interacts with the previous color and this effect is obtained. You can see blending modes in the top settings menu. There are four of them: hue, saturation, color and brightness (Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity). The default mode is Color.
If you've ever studied color theory, you've probably heard that color is made up of hue, saturation, and brightness. You can choose any blending mode depending on which of these three aspects of the original color you want to affect.
Hue: When you apply Hue mode, only the base color will change. Will not change the saturation and brightness of the original color. This mode is useful for images where the colors are not very intense and it usually produces very little change.
Saturation: The “Saturation” mode only changes the saturation of the original color. Hue and brightness are not affected. This mode is useful for reducing the intensity of a color, or removing color completely.
Color: Color mode is the default and changes hue and saturation. The brightness will remain unchanged. This is the blending mode you will use most often.
Luminosity: Finally, Luminosity mode changes the brightness of the original color to the brightness of the new color. Hue and saturation remain unchanged.
Let's take another photo with balls:
One way to make one balloon stand out is to reduce the color saturation of the other balloons. We will not change the actual color of the balls, but only the intensity of the colors. In the Blending Modes tab, I'll select the Saturation mode.
If we wanted to completely desaturate the balloons, we would set the base color to black, white or gray, but since we want a more subtle effect, we'll just take one of the less saturated colors from the image. While holding down my Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key, we temporarily switch to the Eyedropper Tool, and click on the color we want to use. We will choose a less saturated yellow color. The color itself doesn't have any meaning since the blend mode won't change the original color. The mode will only affect the saturation:
Select the “Color Replacement” tool and paint on those balls on which we want to reduce the saturation level, making them paler. The brush size can be adjusted using square brackets. If necessary, adjust the tolerance level. In the example below you can see how different the original shade of the ball is from the changed one.
Paint over the other balls. Their saturation decreases. This is what the result looks like:
Brightness Issues
Unfortunately, there are situations in which using the Replace Color tool causes difficulties.
These are cases where there is a big difference between the brightness of the original color and the replacement color. For example, we want to change the hue of the top orange ball to the purple color of the other ball. It seems easy to do, but...
First, let's return all the colors of the balls to their original state. To do this, go to the menu File - Revert. Then take a color sample from the purple ball by clicking on it while holding down the Alt key to switch to the eyedropper.
Set the blending mode to Color. This is the default value. Then we start painting over the orange ball to change its color to dark purple. Here's the result:
Hm. It's definitely purple, but it doesn't quite look like other purple balls, does it? The problem is that our orange ball is much brighter than the purple balls. Set mode mixing does not affect brightness. It only affects color. Let's change the blending mode to “Brightness”/”Luminosity”:
Let's undo all previous actions and return the ball to orange, and then set the blending mode to “Brightness” / “Luminosity”. Now we paint the ball dark purple.
It's safe to say that the result is bad. In the “Brightness”/”Luminosity” mode, the ball became brighter, but it remained orange and lost its structure.
The problem is that there is too much difference in the brightness of objects. The Color Replacement tool is great for simple tasks where you just need to change the hue or saturation of a color, but if there are too many differences between the brightness of two elements in an image, you'll need to choose other color replacement methods.
Let's take another look at the “Color Replacement Tool”.
In the top menu we see three icons depicting pipettes. Each of these icons represents an option for selecting a color sample to work with (Sampling). We look from left to right: test - continuously “Continuous” - set by default; sample - once “Once”; sample - sample background “Background Swatch”. To switch from one option to another, you simply need to activate the selected icon.
Let's consider the options.
Test - continuously “Continuous”. In this option, the color selection will be made by the tool continuously while you hold down the mouse button and move the cursor over the image. This option can be used when you need numerous and complex color changes in an object.
With the “Once” test, Photoshop respects the color you clicked on, no matter how long you hover over the image. This option is best for replacing large areas of uniform color.
Sample background “Background Swatch”. You probably won't use this option very often. Here the background color replaces the original color. Only those pixels in the image that match the background color will be replaced. To do this, you need to select a shade from the color palette that best matches the color of the image. This can be done by clicking on the bottom square of the color icon. Adjust the tolerance value if the shade does not suit you.
“Restrictions”/ “Limits”
The next option for the Color Replacement tool controls the location of the pixels to be replaced and is called “Limits”. There are three color detection options: Contiguous, Discontinuous, and Find Edges.
Most often you will use the first two.
The default constraint type is “Contiguous”/ “Contiguous”. In this version, the “Color Replacement Tool” recolors the pixels that are under the cross within the cursor. The tool will not affect pixels that match the selected color but are separated from the cursor by an area of a different color. At least until the cursor is in these zones.
The “Discontinuous” constraint type replaces all pixels within the cursor.
The final type of edge highlighting, “Find Edges,” replaces color in areas that have a tint of the selected color, preserving the outline of the object's edges.
Let’s look at the last option in the top settings menu for the “Smoothing”/”Anti-aliasing” tool. Use this option if you need to smooth the edges of an object's precise outline. If you don't need anti-aliasing, uncheck the box.
Good luck with your processing ;-))
1 voteGood day, dear readers of my blog. Today we are again talking about Photoshop and its tools. Not many people know that the “Color Replacement” brush is hidden among them. Nevertheless, thanks to it you can very coolly change the color of any object in the photo.
I already wrote about this, but if you use the tips from that article, you can quickly get rid of a certain shade from the entire photo.
Today we will talk about the Color Replacement tool in Photoshop. I'll show you how to work with certain objects. For example, change not all the red in the picture, but only the hair. You don't have to bother with any masks. Everything will be very easy and simple. A couple of moves and you're done.
Well, shall we begin?
Color Replacement Tool
How does Color Replacement work? It recolors pixels of one color to another. And although this method cannot be called super-professional, the darker and lighter areas and highlights remain as such even when repainted.
The method is very easy to use and is ideal for solving simple tasks of changing colors and shades in Photoshop.
This tool “hides” on the same button as the other brushes. Hold down the left mouse button for a few seconds and open additional tools.
You can control the size of the brush using brackets ( and ) (“X” and “B” on the keyboard). In this, the brush is no different from its other “brothers”.
How does the brush work? You move the arrow and everything that falls within the diameter of the brush changes its color to the one you need. It's very easy to set it up. This is active. To replace it, just click on the front color plate, select a shade and click “OK”.
Look, I took the black color and moved it over the girl’s head. Her hair has changed, but all the shades have been preserved. They don't look like a dark spot.
Tool Settings
If you zoom in on the image, you will see that the color has moved onto the girl’s body. One of the brush parameters is “Tolerance.” It determines how different the color can be from the samples. By default this figure is 30%. If I set it to 90, I’ll go over the girl’s forehead and eyes, but if I set it to 1, I won’t paint anything.
There is another interesting setting here – mode. If you try to change something now, it will seem to you that the option does not work. The whole point is that you first need to set the settings, and then work with the brush.
See in the picture below, I tried all 4 modes. 1 – hue, 2 – saturation, 3 – chroma (this parameter is set by default) and 4 – brightness. You already know how to use them, but what is each of them?
If the colors in the photo are not too saturated and minor changes are required, then it is best to use “Color Tone”. In this case, you will only change the hue, but the saturation and brightness of the original color will not change. The hand looks dull blue.
If you need to slightly reduce the intensity or even completely remove the color, then it is better to use the “Saturation” mode. It will not affect the hue or its brightness. The lower part of the arm has remained virtually unchanged. The color only hints that the hand is bluish.
“Color” will change both the hue and its saturation, but the brightness will remain unchanged. The girl's face became like the Avatar's.
“Brightness” will not change the hue and saturation, but its brightness, of course, will be completely different. You see, in my case, the girl’s hand became almost white.
Another interesting setting is “Restrictions”. Of the three available options in life, as a rule, only two are used: Adjacent and all pixels. The settings determine the location of the points that you are going to change.
In the “Adjacent Pixels” mode, only those points that are adjacent to the center of the cursor and do not differ from them in color change. This allows you to make changes more accurately, taking into account contrasting borders. If the diameter of the brush suddenly contains a color of a completely different shade, it will not change.
If you set the “All pixels” mode, the photo will be “blurred” evenly, without taking into account the difference in shades.
OK it's all over Now. The tool, in principle, is not complicated. To make a real masterpiece you will have to dig deeper, but changing parts of the object will not be so difficult. If you need to turn a large photo into a spectacular miniature, then better tool just can't be found.
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One way to focus the viewer's attention on this particular balloon is to reduce the saturation of the other balloons below it. I don't want to change the actual color of the balls, just the intensity. To do this with the Color Replacement Tool, I'll change the Blend Mode in the Options Bar to Saturation:
If I wanted to completely desaturate the balloons, removing their color completely, I would set the Foreground color to black, white, or any of the shades of gray, but since I want a more subtle effect, I'll just use one of the subdued colors from Images. To do this, I'll hold down the key to temporarily switch to Eyedropper Tool mode and click on the desired color. I'll choose a low saturated yellow color. The color itself doesn't matter, since the Saturation blend mode doesn't change any of the original colors. It will only affect the intensity:
So, my foreground color is set to low-saturated yellow, the blending mode is “Saturation”. Now I'll just paint over the balloons by adjusting my brush size using the left and right keys square brackets and change the tolerance value in the Options Bar as needed. The picture below shows how I paint a bright orange balloon from top to bottom:
Disadvantages of the tool: problem with the brightness of changed objects
As I wrote at the very beginning, the Color Replacement Tool cannot be used for all cases. Now I will show you this with an example.
First I'll restore the initial state my photo with balls by pressing the F12 key. Now let's say I want to change the color of the top individual orange ball to a dark purple color like some of the balls in the group:
To select a replacement color, I hold down Alt and click on the purple ball:
I set the Blend Mode in the Options Bar to Color and start painting over the orange ball to change it to dark purple. Here's the result:
Hm. The ball turned out to be purple, of course, but this color is quite similar to the colors of other purple balls, isn’t it? The problem is that this color is much brighter than the other purple balls, and this is because the original color of the ball was much brighter than the dark purple that I used as a replacement sample. The "Color" blend mode in this case does not affect the brightness of the object in any way.
Well, then let's try to apply the blending mode that affects the brightness. Of the four available blending modes, this is “Brightness” (Luminosity). I'll restore the photo to its original state by pressing F12, selecting this mode in the options bar, and again trying to paint the ball dark purple. Result:
Well, looking at the result, we can say with confidence that the result was complete nonsense. The Brightness blend mode definitely made the ball darker, but it's still orange, not purple, and besides, the texture detail is almost gone, the ball looks like a flat blob.
This is the drawback of the Color Replacement tool. It is perfect for performing simple tasks, where you only need to change the hue and/or saturation of the color, but if there are too many differences in the brightness values between the original and the new color, this tool will most likely not be suitable.
Sampling for replacement
In the Options Bar, directly to the right of the Blending Mode option, there are three small icons. Each of these icons represents a different selection of pixels to replace with the Color Replacement Tool, and they work in exactly the same way as the Background Eraser Tool. From left to right: Continuous, this option is enabled by default, the next is Once, and the last is Background Swatch. To switch between selection modes, simply click on the desired icon:
These settings control how Photoshop selects pixels to replace colors in an image. If the first option, Continuous, is selected, Photoshop continually determines new colors to replace. The sample is located under the moving cursor, exactly under the crosshairs. If, when moving the cursor, another color falls under the crosshairs, it becomes the target color for replacement. All pixels of that color within the cursor circle are replaced. This sampling option is used most often and works best when there is a lot of color variation within a site.
The "Once" option takes as a sample the color that you initially selected and the sample does not change depending on how many colors you further drag the cursor crosshair through. This option is best if you need to replace a large area of solid color. You can also try this option if you find that with the Continuous option, the color you are replacing is leaking into nearby areas and changing the Tolerance option does not help.
The last option, Background Pattern, is used very rarely, if at all. This option replaces any color in the image that matches the background color in the color palette. This option may only be useful if neither of the first two options works.
Limits
This setting determines the location of the pixels to be replaced and works in exactly the same way as the Background Eraser. The option has three options: “All pixels” (Contiguous), “Adjacent pixels” (Discontiguous) and “Find Edges”. Of these three, you will really only use the first two:
The "Adjacent pixels" option (set by default) means that only those pixels that are directly adjacent to the cursor crosshair will be replaced. Pixels separated from pixels under the crosshairs by some other color will not be replaced, even if they are within the cursor circle and exactly match the color.
An alternative is "All pixels". With this option, all pixels matching in color and located within the cursor boundaries will be replaced.
Anti-Alias
This option is enabled by default and serves to smooth the edge around replacement areas. I recommend keeping it turned on at all times.
Changing colors in Photoshop is a simple but fun process. In this lesson we will learn how to change the color of various objects in pictures.
We will change the colors of objects in three ways: different ways. In the first two we use special functions of the program, and in the third we paint the desired areas manually.
Method 1: Simple replacement
The first way to replace color is to use a ready-made function in Photoshop "Replace color" or "Replace Color" in English. It shows the best results on monochromatic objects. For example, let's take an icon and open it in Photoshop. Next, we will replace the color with any other one that interests us.
So we changed one color to another.
Method 2: Color Range
The second method, according to the scheme of work, can be said to be identical to the first. But we will look at it in a more difficult image. For example, we chose a photo with a car.
As in the first case, we need to indicate what color we will replace. To do this, you can create a selection using the color range function. In other words, highlight an image by color.
The result has been achieved. If there are areas of the original color left in the image, the procedure can be repeated.
