beatricemi Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 I know a few different ways to color or recolor- color fill layer, hue adjustment layer etc. I'm looking at this month scrap simple club and I think everything is grayscale. There is a tutorial on creating a paper but I'm wondering if there is a "best" way to color grayscale elements. I'm using photoshop elements 14. Thanks for any tips or links you can provide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsendi Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I found this on Scrapgirls while searching for recoloring, and it was very helpful. It was posted by Teecee in May of 2014... Use the magic wand tool... 1. FIrst, make a copy of the photo and close the original. 2. Click the foreground color chip to open the color picker and select the color you want to change the dress/vest to. 3. Select the magic wand tool, (In PSE 11, the shortcut is A - in earlier versions of PSE the shortcut is W). 4. In the tool options bar, select the icon for Add to Selection, set the Tolerance to 32, and check Contiguous. 5. Click in the areas of the dress and vest where you want to change the color. Marching ants will outline the areas you selected. 6. Go to Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Hue/Saturation (shortcut is CTRL+U) 7. A Hue/Saturation dialog box will open - check the colorize box. 8. Play with the Saturation and/or Lightness sliders until the dress and vest are the colors you want. (Just be careful not to go too far with the sliders or you will lose detail.) 9. Click OK and press CTRL+D to deselect the marching ants. You may need to play around a little to get the colors and detail just the way you want it. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsendi Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I also found this video by Brandy Murray to be very helpful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiles Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 yes, Brandy's tutorial addresses the challenge of the gray you can get with templates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diannecp Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 wow, that's really a great tip on recoloring there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatricemi Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsendi Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Here is another great tutorial on this subject... https://scrapgirls.com/blog/tips-for-coloring-templates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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