Changing color

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GUY M BENSON
Nov 16, 2004
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I used the paintbrush to draw a character in red against a white background. Saved it as a PSD file. I want to change the color of the character to black against a transparent background. Cannot figure out how to do this without tracing the character again with the paint brush. Neither the Change Color function or just changing the foreground color works. I am using Photoshop Elements. GB
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Corey
Nov 17, 2004
I don’t have Elements, but if it has a Magic Wand tool, this would be the thing to use. If the background is transparent, you can select the background, then go to Select>Inverse (SHFT+CTRL+I) and dump in the black.

Peadge 🙂

"GUY M BENSON" wrote in message
I used the paintbrush to draw a character in red against a white
background.
Saved it as a PSD file. I want to change the color of the character to
black
against a transparent background. Cannot figure out how to do this without tracing the character again with the paint brush. Neither the Change Color function or just changing the foreground color works. I am using Photoshop Elements. GB

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paul405
Nov 18, 2004
hi there

There is a couple of things you might like to try

method one
1/ go to enhance , then select adjust colour
and remove colour ( you end up with a grey-scale image.

2/ next go to image , adjustment , threshold
and move sliders to produce the look you want .
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method 2

1/ go to image , adjustment , threshold
and move sliders to produce the look you want .
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try to use the paint-bucket took
5th tool down on the left on te tool seclector
dont forhet to select colour and threshold

hope the info helps

"Peadge" wrote in message
I don’t have Elements, but if it has a Magic Wand tool, this would be the thing to use. If the background is transparent, you can select the background, then go to Select>Inverse (SHFT+CTRL+I) and dump in the black.
Peadge 🙂

"GUY M BENSON" wrote in message
I used the paintbrush to draw a character in red against a white
background.
Saved it as a PSD file. I want to change the color of the character to
black
against a transparent background. Cannot figure out how to do this without
tracing the character again with the paint brush. Neither the Change Color
function or just changing the foreground color works. I am using Photoshop
Elements. GB

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