Changing colour while maintaining shading?

[bbstary]

Hi! I'm having difficulty changing the colours on this picture:

I want to change the colours to something more like this:



What I can't seem to figure out is how to keep the shading (to make it look more like a real cord) while changing the colours...any ideas on how to change it? Any help is very much appreciated!

 

[IamSam]

Hello and welcome!

any ideas on how to change it?

Try changing the blending mode of the color layer to "screen" .............or try some other blending modes.

 

[gracietallis]

I think you should crop separately each part of the cord and enter the blending more and add color / gradients

 

[psleon]

Something like this? There are several ways to do this. In this case i turned the original layer to black & white. I thn used the blend mode hard light on the second layer (with the colours). Fine tuned it with blend if and adjusted the brightness with curves adj layer.

 

[bbstary]

Hi guys, thank you so much for all your responses! I ended up using a combination of gracietallis and psleon's suggestions and they worked