mclew wrote:Hi, I've been following this thread and now both Robin and I are lured into the world of color replacement with Photoshop. There is one more way, Image, Adjustments, Replace Color... Photoshop never has just ONE way to do it... the trick is to choose the one that works best for the situation. Replace Color is pretty neat too and even easier for this van job than the Color Replacement Tool.
Sure, and I first started with the color replacement tool but am very bad
with it for this particular application in which we were to match color of
the truck to awning.
Since the name of the feature I used is "match color" I don't see what
the prob is. That i detailed the steps (selecting original source and target
area) may have made it seem more complex. But I try to do step by step.
So I then used "match color" which IS incredibly easy to use. I don't
have to use brushes or tools. I love how, with unwanted reflections
fuzzying up the clarity of one image I can ask it to 'match color' to what
I want from another area or area of another picture.
For selecting a color area, I tend to like Select/similaR (colors) because I
can click once with magic wand and then the Select/similaR selects all
other instances of that particular color. I didn't take time to refine the
truck's matched color results though, where a whiter area was missed, as
we were just asked to show a way to match the awning color.
It's one way. Robin used another, and you've named yet another.
mclew wrote:Andrys writes "dreaded pen tool"
BTW, the "dreaded pen tool"???? What is dreaded about a pen tool?
That was our teacher's joke. It became the name of one of the
classes because so many of the Photoshop students don't like using it.
Just because it's natural to you doesn't mean it is to others.
A lot of people in the 'Advanced' Photoshop class we were taking (twice)
have trouble with it in making paths (selections) well with it. An
engineering student would have no trouble, an art major probably even
less.
I have trouble using the magnetic tool correctly too, even though
I really like that one. So, if I can avoid small hand-movements, I do.
[Edited to say it was Select/SimilaR (colors) rather than color range.]
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