Sent: 2010-06-08 22:03:57 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: gvernold

Changing a dark colour

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Been beating my head against a wall having followed seven tutorials on the net
on changing colors in an image and none of them work.

I have an image of a boot footprint which originated from a grayscale image
in photoshop. I have converted it to RGB. The boot print is really quite dark
but I want to change it to a light green color.

Every method I have tried so far has changed the color of the almost white
bits but not changed the dark patches (most of the image).

Can anybody help with this, thanks.

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Sent: 2010-06-08 22:23:02 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Derek Wueppelmann

Changing a dark colour

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On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 22:03 +0200, gvernold wrote:
> Been beating my head against a wall having followed seven tutorials on the net
> on changing colors in an image and none of them work.
>
> I have an image of a boot footprint which originated from a grayscale image
> in photoshop. I have converted it to RGB. The boot print is really quite dark
> but I want to change it to a light green color.
>
> Every method I have tried so far has changed the color of the almost white
> bits but not changed the dark patches (most of the image).
>
> Can anybody help with this, thanks.

The select by colour tool should let you select the dark colour you are
looking for. Then you can replace the selected region by replacing it
with the foreground or background colour. I don't know if this was one
of the methods you already tried though.

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Sent: 2010-06-08 22:23:53 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Derek Wueppelmann

Changing a dark colour

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On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 22:03 +0200, gvernold wrote:
> Been beating my head against a wall having followed seven tutorials on the net
> on changing colors in an image and none of them work.
>
> I have an image of a boot footprint which originated from a grayscale image
> in photoshop. I have converted it to RGB. The boot print is really quite dark
> but I want to change it to a light green color.
>
> Every method I have tried so far has changed the color of the almost white
> bits but not changed the dark patches (most of the image).
>
> Can anybody help with this, thanks.

The select by colour tool should let you select the dark colour you are
looking for. Then you can replace the selected region by replacing it
with the foreground or background colour. I don't know if this was one
of the methods you already tried though.

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Sent: 2010-06-08 22:28:46 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Rob Antonishen

Changing a dark colour

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> Can anybody help with this, thanks.
>
>

Try creating a new layer filled with the colour you want and set its
layer mode to Grain Merge.

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Sent: 2010-06-09 00:07:03 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Branko Vukelic

Changing a dark colour

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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:03 PM, gvernold wrote:
> I have an image of a boot footprint which originated from a grayscale image
> in photoshop. I have converted it to RGB. The boot print is really quite dark
> but I want to change it to a light green color.

Are you trying to simply colorize the image? There's a tool called
'Colorize' in the tools menu, and it should work fine in that case.
Move the lightness and saturation sliders towards right, and then pick
the hue you want, and you should get the results you are looking for.

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