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Hi, I am using Photoshop CS3 and have a question regarding "replace color."
First…here are the steps I enacted prior to trying to use the ‘replace color’ function:
1. In RGB Mode – – Selected and filled a shape a color.
2. Ran the selected object through Alien Skin/Impact "Chrome" function.
3. Selected ‘adjustments/desaturate.’ Did this so that I could then go to Adjustments/color balance….. and then change the entire color of the object to a predominantly red chrome looking scheme.
4. After giving the object a ‘chrome’ appearance, I wanted to go into the ‘white’ hilite areas of the object and sample them – and then change them to a bright red color….this is where the ‘REPLACE COLOR’ function comes in.
5. So I use the color sample eye dropper within ‘REPLACE COLOR’ and select the white areas I want to change to red…as the ‘selection color.’
6. Then, I click down in the lower color box (result color) and sample a color that I want to change the white hilite areas to…in this case, red.
7. This is where the problem occurs – – even though I chose a result color of red…the white areas turn to grayscale within my colored object…so just those areas are gray!!! What the heck??!!
So… how can I desaturate a selected object… then recolor it using ‘Color Balance’…. and then replace colors and have the replaced colors actually be a color instead of a gray color?
My file is in RGB mode and everything else is in COLOR…. yet I cannot replace areas within this colored graphic with other colors…it just keeps putting gray tones into the object.
HELP??
Thanks.
First…here are the steps I enacted prior to trying to use the ‘replace color’ function:
1. In RGB Mode – – Selected and filled a shape a color.
2. Ran the selected object through Alien Skin/Impact "Chrome" function.
3. Selected ‘adjustments/desaturate.’ Did this so that I could then go to Adjustments/color balance….. and then change the entire color of the object to a predominantly red chrome looking scheme.
4. After giving the object a ‘chrome’ appearance, I wanted to go into the ‘white’ hilite areas of the object and sample them – and then change them to a bright red color….this is where the ‘REPLACE COLOR’ function comes in.
5. So I use the color sample eye dropper within ‘REPLACE COLOR’ and select the white areas I want to change to red…as the ‘selection color.’
6. Then, I click down in the lower color box (result color) and sample a color that I want to change the white hilite areas to…in this case, red.
7. This is where the problem occurs – – even though I chose a result color of red…the white areas turn to grayscale within my colored object…so just those areas are gray!!! What the heck??!!
So… how can I desaturate a selected object… then recolor it using ‘Color Balance’…. and then replace colors and have the replaced colors actually be a color instead of a gray color?
My file is in RGB mode and everything else is in COLOR…. yet I cannot replace areas within this colored graphic with other colors…it just keeps putting gray tones into the object.
HELP??
Thanks.
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