Changing colors

[kevin316]

So I have been doing a lot of reading and I thought I had this figured out but not quite.

I am trying to change a silver to a deep reddish brown but when I try the colour is off.

Here is what I have tried.

I have used the colour replacement tool as well as the Hue tool but like I said it produces a variation of the original colour and the new colour.

I have also played around with desaturation but with the same colour I end up with a pink. This was just a shot in the dark.

PS

I am new at photoshop so any advice will be appreciated but it may also need to be a bit more specific.

 

[Hoogle]

silver is to close to white for the usual methods of colourising ie color replacement tool which I never use.

Depending on the shade of silver as in if it is closer to grey and is not to complicated shape just paint over it with the desired colour on a new layer and put the layer blending mode to colour or soft light you may want to then add a hue saturation adjustment layer and clip it to your painted layer to boost saturation and tweak the colour.

However if it is closer to white then painting it may work with setting the layer mode to overlay.

My best option would be to make a selection of the silver object add a hue saturation adjustment layer with the active selection and check the box colourize and then colour it in, you may not be able to do this with just 1 layer as it may become pixelated, you will need to probably darken the lightness darker slider slightly to get the colour or it may seem washed out.

Upload your image and we will tell you the best method white and blacks are the hardest to colour in but towards the grey it becomes easy

 

[kevin316]

I guess

 

[kevin316]

I need 5

 

[kevin316]

posts to post a picture.

 

[kevin316]

thanks for the quick reply. As you can see it's a photo of a truck I want to end up with an orange colour on the top and a silver on the bottom. I have cut the photo up so everything is individual (windows out, tires out, top and bottom split etc.)


Nice Truck by kmatlock40, on Flickr

 

[Hoogle]

make a selection using select color range

then add a hue saturation adjustment layer

check the colourize box

adjust sliders to get right color

any where missed or where it is effecting where it shouldnt be paint in white on the layer mask to add the new color paint in black to hide the new color.

 

[Paul]

View attachment 18380 nice wheels man.

 

[Hoogle]

Pimp my ride PSG style

 

[Paul]

Dark and menacing.
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