Photoshop Advice

[Mias]

Hi,
I have tried unsuccessfully to alter the colour of my grandsons vest to match his great-grandfathers and make it look natural.As they are wearing similar caps it would look even more cute to have similar tops but my Pshop skills are not good enough to carry this one off.
Any idea's from you guys ?

[Jocelyn Walker]

Re: Photoshop Advice

Hi Mias....I hardly ever read this section...but agree with your comment! What you could try doing is to make a selection with the lasso tool on grandad...go to eyedropper & get the colour from boys vest...go to paintbucket & fill in the selection! This hopefully may work! Let me know if it works for you! In the example here of adding what looks like water on top of a wooden bridge, I used the magic wand to make selections of areas, such as darker shadows etc & used colour picker to select colour of my choice & filled that selection by using the paintbucket, then continued the same process for other smaller area with similar tones & colours. Thus giving you shades of light & dark, creating movement etc!

[Patrick]

Re: Photoshop Advice

Hi Mias....I hardly ever read this section...but agree with your comment! What you could try doing is to make a selection with the lasso tool on grandad...go to eyedropper & get the colour from boys vest...go to paintbucket & fill in the selection! This hopefully may work! Let me know if it works for you! In the example here of adding what looks like water on top of a wooden bridge, I used the magic wand to make selections of areas, such as darker shadows etc & used colour picker to select colour of my choice & filled that selection by using the paintbucket, then continued the same process for other smaller area with similar tones & colours. Thus giving you shades of light & dark, creating movement etc!

I have had a quick play with this and achieved the effect relatively simply. The cut out is not by any means perfect, but with more time a very much better result could be achieved.
1. cut out the area to be changed
2. copy cut out, then past back into image,(this creates a layer)
3. use eye dropper to get the colour required, some playing with the pallet may still be required.
4. Using the paint bucket drop the colour onto the cut out.
5. adjust transparency of the layer to allow tones and texture to show through.
6. using Hue/Saturation on the layer play with the controls particularly light & dark until the effect is convincing.
7. add a tiny bit of noise to the vest layer, this also helps to make the effect more convincing.

I don't doubt with a bit more experiment a better method could be found, as always with Photoshop there are umpteen ways to do anything.

Patrick