Changing garage door and sky color in photo

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

I would select the door, pick from the color picker the desired new color, and then fill with the 'color' option. It might not work but you can adjust things to make it work, I think.

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/

Talker

I wonder what the OP did. Looks like an easy way to post pics ... the url you shared.

"Talker" wrote in message

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/

Talker

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/

Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3

I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/ Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3
I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

Sky=Select>Colour Range and play with the fuzziness to take in the leaves. Filter>Render>Clouds then fill the resulting selection. Would be better "pasting into" the selection a stock sky shot with more cloud behind the tree/leaves to minimise the halos.
The door isn't as easy as it may seem, white (or nearly white)is a difficult hue to deal with as there is little or no colour variation. I selected the door and just altered the brightness/contrast. Am using a crap laptop, will try again tomorrow.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1iWLigwHvZ0Ha3QcUQ L66vo6kyvrp

TWK

I would change distortion first using the perspective under Image:Transform:Perspective. To my eyes the top of the house is compressed. After you get a good selection on the white of the garage door, select the color of the trim and fill the door with the color of the trim set at mode:color opacity:30%. Adjust the selection with the levels menu by moving the center triangle to the right without adjusting the other two. I don't know why this works at 30%, but it seems to me that getting the color into the selection and then darkening with the levels is a good way to start. You might want to experiment with values other than 30.

If I owned the house, I would think about painting the garage door, as you suggest. After you fix the distortion crop so that the middle part of the tree doesn't stick out. To me, it just looks better. Can they do something with the color of hte driveway : -) It looks like someone stripped the sky out of the pic because there is blue around the upper tree branches. It will look prettier and more natural with some color in the sky. Have fun.

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/ Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3
I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/ Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3
I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

I straightened up the shot with Filter>Distort>Lens Correction. The sky with Select>Color Range and play with the fuzziness slider to get the best from the tree (I would blow it away and replace with a stock sky/tree shot, a lot quicker)
Then Select>Modify>Expand by 1 pixel to remove the holos. With the seletion active copy the sky (+tree?) from another image, then Edit>Paste Into to put the sky into the selection.
Use the move tool to place it where you need to, the Transform tool may also be of use to make it fit better.
The garage door was selected with the polygonal lassoo tool and hit with Image>Adjust>Hue/Sat, click on colorize and play around with with the sliders
H=40
S=12
L=-59
as starting points.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=157N0KLzABYMwFaRkS iKxnex2COf

TWK

"Toobi Won Kenobi" wrote in message

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/ Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3
I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

Sky=Select>Colour Range and play with the fuzziness to take in the leaves. Filter>Render>Clouds then fill the resulting selection. Would be better "pasting into" the selection a stock sky shot with more cloud behind the tree/leaves to minimise the halos.
The door isn't as easy as it may seem, white (or nearly white)is a difficult hue to deal with as there is little or no colour variation. I selected the door and just altered the brightness/contrast. Am using a crap laptop, will try again tomorrow.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1iWLigwHvZ0Ha3QcUQ L66vo6kyvrp
TWK

Try again

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1AE807taF622fyYK84 OZ9YfYtcdeto1

"Toobi-Won Kenobi" wrote in message

"Toobi Won Kenobi" wrote in message

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/ Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3
I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

Sky=Select>Colour Range and play with the fuzziness to take in the leaves.
Filter>Render>Clouds then fill the resulting selection. Would be better "pasting into" the selection a stock sky shot with more cloud behind the tree/leaves to minimise the halos.
The door isn't as easy as it may seem, white (or nearly white)is a difficult hue to deal with as there is little or no colour variation. I selected the door and just altered the brightness/contrast. Am using a crap laptop, will try again tomorrow.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1iWLigwHvZ0Ha3QcUQ L66vo6kyvrp
TWK

Try again

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1AE807taF622fyYK84 OZ9YfYtcdeto1

And again!!!

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1LNfNR8DjZSbx2wvKp Fso18gwbyAJ

TWK

Toobi-Won Kenobi wrote:

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/ Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3
I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

I straightened up the shot with Filter>Distort>Lens Correction. The sky with Select>Color Range and play with the fuzziness slider to get the best from the tree (I would blow it away and replace with a stock sky/tree shot, a lot quicker)
Then Select>Modify>Expand by 1 pixel to remove the holos. With the seletion active copy the sky (+tree?) from another image, then Edit>Paste Into to put the sky into the selection.
Use the move tool to place it where you need to, the Transform tool may also be of use to make it fit better.
The garage door was selected with the polygonal lassoo tool and hit with Image>Adjust>Hue/Sat, click on colorize and play around with with the sliders
H=40
S=12
L=-59
as starting points.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=157N0KLzABYMwFaRkS iKxnex2COf
TWK

Great. Thanks. It helps to have somewhere to start. I tried removing the sky and tree all together and inserting a blue gradient layer behind the house with some luck, but it looked fake. And I used the paint bucket tool to change the door color with some success. You mentioned something about a stock sky and tree. Where do I find those? That would be a big help.
Your posted pictures are not there. Could you repost them please? Thank you all for the help
K

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Toobi-Won Kenobi wrote:

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Talker wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:54:57 GMT, Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Post the image so that we can see what it looks like. You can post it here http://www.pixentral.com/ Talker

Thanks
Here is the link to the original picture.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1z2qzeaz1Soff2iWHG 3et6VhHEnuD3
I would like to tune up the lawn, change the garage door color to match the trim color around the garage door without loosing the hardware in the process, and make the sky look a natural blue, maybe with some ( optional) clouds.

I straightened up the shot with Filter>Distort>Lens Correction. The sky with Select>Color Range and play with the fuzziness slider to get the best from the tree (I would blow it away and replace with a stock sky/tree shot, a lot quicker)
Then Select>Modify>Expand by 1 pixel to remove the holos. With the seletion active copy the sky (+tree?) from another image, then Edit>Paste Into to put the sky into the selection.
Use the move tool to place it where you need to, the Transform tool may also be of use to make it fit better.
The garage door was selected with the polygonal lassoo tool and hit with Image>Adjust>Hue/Sat, click on colorize and play around with with the sliders
H=40
S=12
L=-59
as starting points.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=157N0KLzABYMwFaRkS iKxnex2COf
TWK

Great. Thanks. It helps to have somewhere to start. I tried removing the sky and tree all together and inserting a blue gradient layer behind the house with some luck, but it looked fake. And I used the paint bucket tool to change the door color with some success. You mentioned something about a stock sky and tree. Where do I find those? That would be a big help.
Your posted pictures are not there. Could you repost them please? Thank you all for the help

It was further up
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1LNfNR8DjZSbx2wvKp Fso18gwbyAJ

Stock photo? Google or I'd be tempted to take one myself.

Regards

TWK

Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Is this what you had in mind?

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/1z2qzeaz1Sof f2iWHG3et6VhHEnuD3rev.jpg

"Rod" wrote in message

Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Is this what you had in mind?

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/1z2qzeaz1Sof f2iWHG3et6VhHEnuD3rev.jpg

Rod,

Nice work on the tree, what did you use?

TWK

Toobi-Won Kenobi wrote:

"Rod" wrote in message

Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Is this what you had in mind?

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/1z2qzeaz1Sof f2iWHG3et6VhHEnuD3rev.jpg

Rod,

Nice work on the tree, what did you use?

TWK

I painted the sky on a separate layer on multiply.
Same for garage door. Used clone tool on the grass
to fill in bad spots. Isn't Photoshop amazing?

"Rod" wrote in message

Toobi-Won Kenobi wrote:

"Rod" wrote in message

Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Is this what you had in mind?

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/1z2qzeaz1Sof f2iWHG3et6VhHEnuD3rev.jpg

Rod,

Nice work on the tree, what did you use?

TWK

I painted the sky on a separate layer on multiply. Same for garage door. Used clone tool on the grass to fill in bad spots. Isn't Photoshop amazing?

Rod,

You said it! ;)

Regards

TWK

Toobi-Won Kenobi wrote:

"Rod" wrote in message

Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Is this what you had in mind?

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/1z2qzeaz1Sof f2iWHG3et6VhHEnuD3rev.jpg

Rod,

Nice work on the tree, what did you use?

TWK

Nice. I said I was a novice, so please bear with me. I have another picture with some fir trees behind it, that I want to fix the sky on. Is there an easy way to select the sky and delete it so I can put in a new sky? When I use the Select/Color tool, I keep getting a lot of the colors from the house, and I don't know how to just mask off the sky. Thanks
Ken

"Ken_Man" wrote in message

Toobi-Won Kenobi wrote:

"Rod" wrote in message

Ken_Man wrote:

I am new to this, and have PS 8.0 on a windows XP box.
I have a picture of a new home that I want to adjust for a flier. I am trying to change the garage door color from the factory white to the body color of the home with out loosing the detail of the door and change the gray sky to blue. There are some leafy trees covering some of the sky. When I use the Image/adjustments/change color tool, the colors always change to gray or a color that may be covered with gray, not the color I selected.
Can you help me?
Thanks!

Is this what you had in mind?

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/1z2qzeaz1Sof f2iWHG3et6VhHEnuD3rev.jpg

Rod,

Nice work on the tree, what did you use?

TWK

Nice. I said I was a novice, so please bear with me. I have another picture with some fir trees behind it, that I want to fix the sky on. Is there an easy way to select the sky and delete it so I can put in a new sky? When I use the Select/Color tool, I keep getting a lot of the colors from the house, and I don't know how to just mask off the sky. Thanks
Ken

Ken,

Any use?

http://www.phong.com/tutorials/mask.tree/

TWK