change clolor of banner

[nicnicman]

I have this banner background for a PHP class I'm taking but it seems that a portion on the right hand side is a darker red than the rest. How would I go about getting the red to be consistent throughout the banner.

 

[agentmoeller]

Set the tolerance on your magic wand tool to zero. Click on the yellow to select it, do select>inverse. That should select all the red areas. Then choose the color red you want from the color picker, and hit ALT/BACKSPACE.

 

[Stric9]

Make a solid color fill in the red you want. Use the bled if sliders in the fx drop down menu and adjust to suit.

 

[nicnicman]

Thanks for the suggestion agentmoeller, but for some reason it's not working for me. First, when I select the yellow I get a bounding box surrounding the entire image. Then, when I go select>inverse I get an error message saying that no pixels were selected.

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. I should also mention I'm using CS4.

 

[nicnicman]

Okay, agentmoeller, I got the magic wand selecting the yellow, but it only selects a few pixels at a time. I'll try playing with the tolerances.

Thanks for the help.

 

[nicnicman]

Make a solid color fill in the red you want. Use the bled if sliders in the fx drop down menu and adjust to suit.

Stric9, could you provide more detailed instructions. Or, maybe a tutorial along the same lines. I'm pretty new to PS.

I used the eyedropper tool to get the color I want, but after that I not sure what to do.

Thanks for the help.

 

[agentmoeller]

Okay, agentmoeller, I got the magic wand selecting the yellow, but it only selects a few pixels at a time. I'll try playing with the tolerances.

Thanks for the help.

First, make sure you're on the right layer in the layers palette. If you're not getting all the yellow when you click, keep moving the tolerance # higher. Once you think you have it all selected, do select>inverse. After you inverse, and the red is surrounded by marching ants (dotted line), you can create a new layer and fill your selection with red, just to have it separate, or fill the layer you're working on - up to you.

Let me know if that works.


Agent

 

[agentmoeller]

This took me about 2 minutes.

I set tolerance to 35, clicked on a couple different spots of yellow to get it all, created a new layer, and filled the selected area with yellow. I CTL-clicked that layer to select the pixels, inverted them, then created another layer and filled it with red.

pretty easy way to do it.



Agent

 

[Ted Norcross]

If you only want to make the red background match, then the following is the easiest way to do it. If you want to change the background color to something else entirely, then try some of the other suggestions in this thread.

On the menu go to Select > Color Range... Click in the incorrect red portion. Set the Fuzziness slider to 46. Press OK[/b] button.

Open the colors palette from the foreground color. Use the eyedropper to get the correct red color. Select OK. Hit Shift + Backspace to fill the selected area with the new color.

 

[fenix]

On the top bar: Image / Adjustments / Replace Color.

Select the eye dropper tool (of the 3 available: pick the one to the left) Click on the darker red section of your image for to select and prepare that color for the adjustment. In my try it was enough to adjust the Saturation to +13 for getting a perfect match, but you´ll see for yourself.

 

[SCTRWD]

Go to Red chanel and make a rectangular selection of the right part. Get back to RGB chanel. With the selection still active create Levels adjustment layer. In the Levels dialog choose Red channel and set input values to 0, 3.35, 255.
That's it.

 

[Stric9]

Duplicate your Background layer

Select using the eyedropper tool the red background color. Make a solid color fill layer

Click the fx menu and go to blending options

(Pardon the pattern in the screenshot I took the ss to late)

Now using the white slider on the Underlying layer section split the handle using your alt key and drag the split handles to 78/156 or your prefered settings.

Your done! Hope this helps.

 

[Stric9]

This is also a good example for a channel based selection. Select the green channel, duplicate it. On the new green copy, use levels, then your white brush in overlay mode. Select the green copy, Invert the selection and paint over it with the background color.

 

[nicnicman]

Thanks for the tips everyone. In the end I went with fenix's suggestion then brushed up the seam.

Now that I'm looking at it on the forum I can still see a difference in color. Maybe I'll have another go.

Here are the results.


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[nicnicman]

Wow, stric9, I just read your detailed response. Maybe I'll try that method too. Thanks.
My first day on this forum and I'm all ready learning stuff!

 

[Paul]

A s the man above said - replace colour picker is the easiest way mate, nice one Fenix.

 

[Hoogle]

I would have used the square marquee tool and draw a box around the faded red then just gone to image > adjustments > hue saturation then instead of master channel selected chose reds and move the saturation up til it matched
and then deselect the box and go to image> adjustment> hue saturation again selecting yellows this time and tweak that so it all stood out clearer all in all less than 30 seconds work But then by the time it comes up to web colours lol you find the compression basically un does all the work so pointless unless your saving it in something other than compressed jpeg perfect on my screen lol yes this is an edited part due to the fact I saw the upload results

 

[Hoogle]

sorry just checking to see if it was compression or another error

 

[Hoogle]

proof that png is better for web than jpeg

 

[ibclare]

using Stric9's recommendation, blend if