How Do I Change The Color Of An Image In Photoshop

Many times equally a web designer I find that some of the colors in a photo are not suitable for utilize with a site'south colour scheme. To solve this problem, I employ Photoshop to change the photograph's colors to better suit my application.

I'll be showing you some simple re-coloring techniques on a pocket-sized scale, but they tin be expanded for a wide range of effects. I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS2 just the latest version or even the free Paint.NETcould be used to create these effects.

This is the photo I'll be using in this tutorial:

Photos are courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.cyberspace

To start, create a new layer & proper noun it "eyes", this is where the coloring volition take place.

Make sure the background layer is selected and accept your pen tool, (be sure the "paths" option is selected in the height left corner), and start to click all effectually the eye, tracing it and connecting your loop at the finish.

When both eyes are traced around completely, right-click inside one of them and select the "make selection" choice. This will then bring up a window where yous tin change the plume radius to one or ii. Depending how constructive your tracing was, if it was closer to the outside border, use 1, if farther in, use ii, then click "OK".

Later on you click "OK" the line around the middle should now be a blinking/moving line. If this is so, we will now desaturate (remove color from) the optics. To exercise this yous tin can printing Shift + Ctrl + U, or select information technology past going to the Prototype tab > Adjustments > Desaturate.

Without deselecting the eyes, select the "eyes" layer. Now, use the colour picker and select the color you want.

In one case the colour is chosen, select the paint bucket tool and fill in the optics. (Note: both eyes should be selected & if this is the case, painting ane eye should automatically paint the other selected surface area.)

Now, deselect the eyes past striking Ctrl +D or, Select tab > Deselect. Get to the top of the layer window, click the drop downwards carte du jour, and click the "soft calorie-free" option.

If the coloring seems a flake false looking, play effectually with the opacity on the layer box, reduce it a little to tone it down if the color is too vibrant.

You can continue doing the same process for most other things such as the lips, coat, etc. Just remember to make a new layer for each. And while you are in the desaturating procedure, once the item is selected, make sure the background layer is the one that is selected.

I did the lips in the following screen shots, simply skipped the desaturating process and went straight to color after selection.

Selected and colored:

Selecting the "soft light" option:

Also, if the color seems to get as well far outside of the specified area, you tin can select the areas layer (eyes, lips, etc.) and utilise the eraser slightly around the edges.

Doing this on a few other areas such every bit the hair, coat and groundwork, you can terminate up with something similar this:

Well that's all there is it! Hopefully you volition be able to look at pictures in a whole new style, knowing that you don't have to just accept them as they are. You can enhance them to look just how you want them with a few elementary steps.