Question

[sherbear222]

I'm sure this is more advanced than I'm ready for, but I need to change a paper to match my layout. If I have a stripe paper, for example, how do I change only one of the stripe colors? Same thing for a plaid - how to change only part of it and not change the whole thing all at once. Can someone walk me through it or tell me it's not possible so I can quit being frustrated?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Sherilyn

[stowens]

Sherilyn, I know how to do this with the color replacement tool. I did it on some striped pages for the Digi Olympics. I don't have time to explain it now because I am running to a band rehearsal, but when I get back in three hours and if no one has posted instructions, I will post them here.

[sherbear222]

thank you

[April]

I believe color replacement only works on the full version of Photoshop, not Elements. Is that right girls?

My answer would be that it is too hard to do in Elements. What version of Photoshop do you have? Actually, we can figure something out. Just let me know what version you have first.

[digimad]

I can think of a way to do it with a stripe if it is a fairly simple striped paper with no fancy texturing or anything like that. Use your magic wand or rectangular selection tool to select the stripe. Then choose the color you want it to be and use the fill bucket to fill that stripe with the new color. You would have to do that for each stripe you want changed.

Another way would be to go to enhance>adjust color>adjust hue and saturation. Then at the top of the window that opens click on the arrow next to the word master. Select the color you want to change. Then adjust the sliders and it will only affect that color. But keep in mind that if you want to change a red stripe to blue that any stripe that has red in it, like an orange stripe will also adjust slightly.

Hope this helps. :)

[sherbear222]

I have elements 6. I guess I'll just keep colorizing until I get something that will work. I was afraid it wouldn't work. I just needed someone to tell me that so I wouldn't keep trying until they had to lock me up. Thanks for your help.

[stowens]

OK, girls, you are going to die when I tell you how easy the color replacement tool is. And yes, you can do it in Elements. I just tried it in Elements 4 and Photoshop CS2, and it works great. Here are the steps:

1. Choose the Color Replacement Tool (it's under the Brush tool).
2. Set your options - Up in the options bar, choose a round brush and whatever size you need. For mode, choose color. Then click on the 3rd sampling icon, which is Background Swatch. Leave limits at Contiguous. For tolerance, if the color you want to change to is a very different color, you can set it higher, like 40%. If the colors are closer to the same, you would neet to set the tolerance lower. This is something you have to play with.
3. Choose your color chips. The foreground should be what color you are changing to. The background color should be the color you want to change. Use your eyedropper to pick the colors.
4. Paint the new color on ... if you have set the tolerance right, you can even color out of the lines!

I had so much fun with this that I changed a whole bunch of stripes just for fun!

Hope this helps!

[sherbear222]

Shelley, your instructions are awesome. However, I don't see a color change tool under my brush tool in elements 6. Am I blind? I think I could follow your instructions if I could just find that tool. Dang it!

[sherbear222]

Oh Oh Oh. I just found it. I had to right click on my brush tool. I'll see what I can do now. Thanks. And sorry I'm so blind!

[cjoy2day]

I have PSE6 and here is how I do it.

If I need a specific color I use my dropper to get the color and then copy the color code number (not sure what the technical name is) that I want to be my stripe color to be.

Menu bar>Enhance>Adjust Color>Replace Color

Then you take your dropper and click on the strip you want to replace. If your strip has texture you might then use the +dropper and add to your section. You should see in your preview it has selected all the stripes w/ that color. Then @ the bottom color square I click it and past my color number in there. Make adjustments and I'm done.

[Alishaw]

Jaime, is exactly right! That's the easiest way to do it and it works awesome! if you get stuck, holler.

[Jamie Hamblin]

Okay... someone (a-hem) maybe who knows how to do it; will you post a tutorial with pics?

[Kelli West]

..a-hem...I thnk that is you Alyson...no npressure...hehehehe....muahahahahaaha!!

[supermombritt]

Of course Alyson will do that. She probably already has one done. She is so good.

[Alyson]

I have to go to work. I started working on some pics for this, but got a phone call from an old friend I haven't talked to in a year or so. If no one else has posted anything, I will complete the tutorial when I get home tonight. Look for it around 9:00 tonight (it may be later depending on how busy we are at Staples).

[Alyson]

Okay, here's the scoop on replacing one color on a paper...works with embellishments as well. I chose to change the yellow star to purple stars on the cute kraft paper from the Teen Kit, Family Tie CD. This is what the paper looked like originally:
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x169/Alyson305/Replace-Color-4.jpg

Now, go to Image>Adjustments>Replace Color. I use Photoshop CS2, so this step may or may not be slight different for you. Okay, that goes for all the steps. You will get the pop-up window below (next picture).

Click on the top patch of color that says color next to it. This will pop-up the color picker window. You can click on whatever color on your paper you want to change when this window is open. I selected the yellow.

Now click on the bottom patch of colored labeled Result. This time choose whatever color you want the first color to be replaced with. (This is where you can put in the hexidecimal color number that CJoy2Day was referring to in a previous post) Now, adjust the fuzziness of the black and white picture. You can view the image, but I prefer to view the selection. You can choose the one you like better, these options are listed under the black and white pic in the pop-up window.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x169/Alyson305/Replace-Color.jpg

You can see in the above picture the results of the replace color. Notice that in my pop-up window, you can see more than just the rows of yellow stars. This is because my fuzziness is higher, and the color change affected the green and orange stars as well. If I lowered the fuzziness, like the example below, I could make the color change only effect the yellow stars. Notice in the black and white preview, you can only see the four lines of stars now.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x169/Alyson305/Replace-Color-2.jpg

However, if you zoom in close to the now purple stars, you can see some yellow around the edges (see below). It's not totally perfect because there is some yellow in other areas of paper, so it's all preference at this point of how much color change you want.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x169/Alyson305/Replace-Color-3-1.jpg

Please ask questions if you have any. I hope this is all understandable. Happy color changing!!

[supermombritt]

I knew you would come through Alyson. I don't know how you know all that you do. I wish I knew 10% of what you do and then I would be an amazing scrapper.

[Alyson]

Brittany, you are an amazing scrapper!!

I just have a good memory. Quinn actually taught me this, so all the props go to her! :D

[Alyson]

*Note* I just finished writing this, and this is probably way more info than any of you will ever need or want, but I was on a roll. It might be useful to you at some point in time. :)

Just so you guys have some idea what I was talking about at the step where the color picker window pops up. Here's a pic of the color-picker window.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x169/Alyson305/Color-Picker.jpg

You've probably seen this before. You will get this window anytime you click on a patch of color to change the color of something...from font color to foreground and background color. When this window is up, your mouse will turn into an eyedropper tool when it is anywhere on the screen besides over this window. You can use the eyedropper to select the new color you want. The top color (has a green star on it in my pic) is the new color. The bottom color (has a purple star on it in my pic) is the previous color.

You can also change the color by selecting any color showing in the multi-shades of red area of the pop-up window. To change the hue, select an area of the rainbow colored rectangle.

There are many other ways to change the color. The Hexadecimal color code is the number/letter combination I circled in red. You can find hexadecimal color code for different colors on many websites, including the one being talked about on another thread (Kuler.adobe.com). Some good hex codes to know: Pure Black is 000000 and Pure White is FFFFFF. You can always mess around with these numbers and see what you come up with, the code uses all numbers 0-9 and letters A-F.

Yet another way to change the color is to adjust the numbers in the R, B, and G boxes, or the C, M, Y, and K boxes. The RGB systems uses Red, Green, and Blue in combination to make a color. If you want less red in your color, decrease the number in the R box. The CMYK system uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (that's what the K stands for) in combination to make a color.

[Kelli West]

amazing Alyson! Just absolutely freaking amazing!

[Kim Hansen]

I knew you would come through Alyson. I don't know how you know all that you do. I wish I knew 10% of what you do and then I would be an amazing scrapper.

PLUS....Alyson explains it SOOO WELL! Thanks Alyson.

[stowens]

Thanks so much, Alyson, for the tutorial. I am sure you spent a lot of time writing it. It is so much harder to explain and document how to do things than to just do them!

And thanks, too, to CJoy2Day (Jaime), because she was the one to first post the technique, and I don't see her getting much credit for the great instructions that she posted. Thank you, Jaime!

[sherbear222]

My goodness! I hadn't checked this thread for a couple of days. You girls are amazing! Never did I think I'd get such a response on this. Thank you everyone. I love that you all have so much knowledge. This has helped me so much.

Sherilyn

[Jamie Hamblin]

HE he! She knew who a-hem was... Thanks Alyson. I'm more of a visual person so now i got it...

[Jenny McDonald]

How did I miss this thread? I needed to figure this out for a embellishment and gave up! Now I can actually do it! :cheer: YAY for smart people! :cheer: