Grayscale - adding one color

In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?

Thanks,

Peter

peter wrote:

In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?
Thanks,

Peter

Yes, you can do just about anything you want.

On Jul 21, 5:46 pm, Joe wrote:

peter wrote:

In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?

Thanks,

Peter

Yes, you can do just about anything you want.

Thanks, Joe, would you mind telling me how it can be done?

Peter

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In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?
Thanks,

Peter

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In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?
Thanks,

Peter

hue/sat adjustment layer on colorize

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peter wrote:

On Jul 21, 5:46 pm, Joe wrote:

peter wrote:

In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?

Thanks,

Peter

Yes, you can do just about anything you want.

Thanks, Joe, would you mind telling me how it can be done?
Peter

Why did you ask how before? <bg>

- If the image is B&W then you first need to change to color (RGB)

- You can use Color Range to pick whatever color range you want to change (lot of options within the Color Range command) then change to selected range to whatever color you want. Then you can use other command like Hue/Sat, Selective Color, Curve, Level, Color Balance etc. to change or adjust to whatever color you want

Or you should have dozen(s) of different options to chose.

On Jul 21, 5:57 pm, "KatWoman" wrote:

"peter" wrote in message

In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?

Thanks,

Peter

hue/sat adjustment layer on colorize

there's more

Yes, I got it now! I do see there are several ways to accomplish this.

Thank you both,

Peter

peter wrote:

In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?

Try this first. Create a new layer over the image. Fill it with perfect blue (R0,G0,B255) and set the layer mode to "color".

There ya go. One way to do it.

Experiment with layer modes.

If you want to have more sophisticated colorization, possibly a color for a particular grey, and another for another grey, try TRI-TONES or DUO-TONES (hell, try QUAD-TONES, too.) That's Mode to GREYSCALE, then to TRI,DUO,QUAD, etc. There are curves you can apply to model them further.

Most people do not understand that "B&W" photography IS COLOR but without hue. All the other important qualities remain (luminance, and so-forth.)

Enjoy.

jj <stop.right.there.net> wrote:

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Most people do not understand that "B&W" photography IS COLOR but without hue. All the other important qualities remain (luminance, and so-forth.)

Of course everyone knows Black is color_black, White is color-white, Green is color-green and so on. And you can even change color in grey-scale mode but pretty limited comparing to color mode.

On Jul 21, 7:05 pm, jj <stop.right.there.net> wrote:

peter wrote:

In a grayscale image, it seems like it is really just shades of black. Now I want to replace the black with another color, so it becomes all shades of ths new color. When I use "replace color", it will put the new color in for the blacks, but the grays remain gray. I want these grays to becomes shades of the new color. Can this be done?

Try this first. Create a new layer over the image. Fill it with perfect blue (R0,G0,B255) and set the layer mode to "color".
There ya go. One way to do it.

Experiment with layer modes.

If you want to have more sophisticated colorization, possibly a color for a particular grey, and another for another grey, try TRI-TONES or DUO-TONES (hell, try QUAD-TONES, too.) That's Mode to GREYSCALE, then to TRI,DUO,QUAD, etc. There are curves you can apply to model them further.
Most people do not understand that "B&W" photography IS COLOR but without hue. All the other important qualities remain (luminance, and so-forth.)

Enjoy.

Yes, indeed, now I know two more ways. Thanks!

Peter