Change Color Of B&W Logo

[macmonkey]

I've got a regular B&W logo that I'd like to add a little color to. I'm using photoshop CS and I've messed with the "Replace Color" feature but I can't get it to do anything. I would just select the black portion and then fill w/ my color but I'm getting jaggies etc...

Thanks

 

[macmonkey]

I'm looking to make the "black" part a dark blue #003366

 

[ooptea]

i am thinking it might be your eyes. when i used 336 as the blue color it did change but it was so close to black i had to really look just to tell. i changed to yellow just to show you. i set my tolerance at 2 and just used the bucket tool. its not real clean cause i just did it in 30 seconds but here is what i came up with

 

[Moltas]

This is how I did it...
- I selected the text with the magic wand
- Expanded the selection by 1
- I used the color replacement tool with 70% tolerence

Just as ooptea pointed out, the blue colour you mentioned is very close to black. Just to make the colour change more visible I added a second version.

But if you want to use this as a logo for print etc I would recommend you to recreate it using illustrator or a similar vector based app.

/Moltas

 

[Moltas]

I just came up with a better method (I think).

I pasted your attached image into a new document twice, giving me two identical layers with the logo. I colorized the top-layer to a suitable color. The complete logo will have a blue hue and you wanted just the text blue right? Use the magic wand to select the text and a vector mask. Now the text is blue (you can easily change the colour [Ctrl+U] )and the lines are intact and grey.

/Moltas

 

[Doc]

Or, you could select the text you want using the wand tool and choose 'layer via copy' Then, with the selection layer highlighted, go to image > adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Be sure the 'colorize' option is selected and adjust the text color to a color and shade of your liking.