Photoshop tricks

There should be a function in Photoshop that is called "Touch up" where you are able to change Brightness, Hue and Saturation. When you change Hue, you change the color. It's the most effective way to change one color item to another while keeping the item looking perfect.

I have a question...can you download photoshope from somewhere or must you buy the programme?

You can download the free trial, if you want the complete one, you have to buy it!

someone please ?

Christanna wrote:

Here's a really good tutorial about making selections with quick masks and you could try experimenting with the hue/ saturation brightness window ctrl+u and the blending modes... please tell me how it goes...
http://www.graphicmentor.com/tutorials/ … index2.php

i couln't open the link to the site, but today i tried again several hours on changing colors by using these or trying something else. but nothing really made me happy, so in the end i gave up - as always  ...

turboprinzessin wrote:

Christanna wrote:

Here's a really good tutorial about making selections with quick masks and you could try experimenting with the hue/ saturation brightness window ctrl+u and the blending modes... please tell me how it goes...
http://www.graphicmentor.com/tutorials/ … index2.php

i couln't open the link to the site, but today i tried again several hours on changing colors by using these or trying something else. but nothing really made me happy, so in the end i gave up - as always  ...

Please don't give up practice make masters... let me try to explain you how the quick mask will help you select the thing you want to colorize and will go through step by step...

and with which tool can I mark item on that I wish to work ?Magic Wand tool or ?
And how to change just the normal colors -like that what you explained or something else ?

I am really sorry for my English...

Last edited by yvi (08-13-2008 17:34)

Christanna wrote:

yvi wrote:

I have question -how to change colors of things/cars but so that is perfect and put some textures , do someone know tutorial for that ?

Yeap... I haven't found a good tutorial about this but i'll try to explain it to you... First you'll have to make a selection of the thing you want to colorize (use quick mask or selection tools) and put it in a new layer then you'll have to use the layer styles, click on the button with the "f" on it and a lot of options will appear click on blending options and the blending options window will pop up click on pattern overlay and start changing and experimenting with the different patterns and blending modes you'll find interesting effects if you use the rest of the layer styles options like inner glow and color overlay...http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/976/ … ylews3.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/976/ … ad841c.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5024/patternmy6.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5024 … 5c012c.jpg

Hey , I did it , thankx ,

Hi everyone. I've had a few PMs asking me how to do simple colour changes in Photoshop. So I thought I'd post here a guide as to how I do it. Hopefully you'll find it useful. This technique works well on areas that contrast to other colours on the page. If you're using skin tones for example, you'll need to mask off the area you want to change first. Here I'm using a highly contrasting turquoise dress to demonstrate.

Step1. In the Image tab, select Adjustments, then Replace Colour. A new window will pop up.


Step 2. First, use the pipette (1) in the top left to select the colours you want to change. Use the middle tool, with the plus (+) symbol, to add to your selection. The central image (2) shows you which areas you have selected. Make sure you click on the main colour, as well as the shadows and highlights, to get a natural looking colour change. Click on the Result box (3) in the bottom right to bring up a colour palette.


Step 3. Use the slider to select the colour you would like to change to, then use the mouse to click in the target colour box to select in greater detail. I have chosen a golden colour. Click OK.


Step 4. Use the sliders at the bottom to fine tune your colour change. I have changed the lightness to make the gold look more vibrant. Make sure you click OK, otherwise all your hard work will be for nothing! And that's it.

Oh my God!  Thank you so much for starting this thread!  After I saw the Birthday Dress remake contest and the awesome designs people did, I asked if someone would start a thread like this and today, here it is!  Let me tell you, the screen shots totally help a lot, much more than just explanations.  I know it is tedious to do screenshots, but it really does help.  I played with photoshop many times and could never get it to do what I wanted.  I read tutorials, tried adobe help, googled what I needed and still, I was not able to do what I wanted.  Your helpful advice and screenshots have done what all the other things I tried failed to do.  Just looking at them and reading them, I feel like I can go home and use photoshop sucessfully!  I am very excited by the prospect.

rooniee wrote:

Do anyone have a link for download the free trial ?

http://www.download.com/Adobe-Photoshop … 11172.html
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

This is really a great thread, I've always wanted to download photoshop and learn how to use it. I think it wouldn't b that hard to use it but I have a different problem.

I've tried to find a download of photo shop but there isn't any. Or I don't spell it correctly? Can anyone give me a link of free but good version of this program?

Thanks ^^