How to change heather to solid color

[stamptoolsupremacy]

Hello everyone,

I'm working on this project right now, and I need to change change a heather gray shirt to a solid red one. Going to red from gray isn't much of a problem, it's getting rid of the heather coloring. I tried using frequency separation but that didn't work at all. I'm at a loss right now, and I'm not sure what to do. anyone have any tips on this?

 

[IamSam]

Can you not just use a black and white adjustment layer on the selected area before affecting the color change?

 

[stamptoolsupremacy]

Can you not just use a black and white adjustment layer on the selected area before affecting the color change?

Would you be able to elaborate a little more? I tried this out a couple of ways and couldn't figure it out. At best it made the shirt look more pixelated. Thanks!

 

[IamSam]

Would you be able to elaborate a little more?

Certainly. "heather" is a color effect created by combining two or more different colored yarns in the making of a garment.

it's getting rid of the heather coloring.

Any color variation caused by the heather effect should be eliminated when you render the selected shirt to black and white. You do this by making a selection of the shirt that you want to be red, adding a Black & Whiter adjustment layer first, then colorize the shirt.

Blue heather shirt.


Now Black and White. You will find adjustment layers under LAYER >NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER.


Now Red.




You will still have the light and dark variances in the shirt......................is this what you're trying to get rid of because you stated "coloring"?

 

[thebestcpu]

One way to remove heather (the high frequency tone variations) is to:
Make it a Smart Object
Apply the Camera Raw Filter
Turn down the clarity and/or the texture.
You would need an appropriate mask to apply it only to the shirt.
From there I will assume you know how to color the shirt yet if not just ask more questions of the forum
Here is a GIF showing before and after with the above technique
John Wheeler

 

[JeffK]

One way to remove heather (the high frequency tone variations) is to:
Make it a Smart Object
Apply the Camera Raw Filter
Turn down the clarity and/or the texture.
You would need an appropriate mask to apply it only to the shirt.
From there I will assume you know how to color the shirt yet if not just ask more questions of the forum
Here is a GIF showing before and after with the above technique
John Wheeler

@thebestcpu - I interpreted the request same as you ie get rid of the heather "texture" and make the turtleneck a solid color.
I also struggled in trying to figure out how to smooth out that texture - that was a great suggestion going into camera raw and using the texture and clarity sliders.

Here's the workspace and result I ended up with - only a rough example to see how it worked:



*NOTE - her left shoulder (the right in the image) is blown out in the original image. That should be repaired before making color edits I think...

- Jeff

 

[JeffK]

BTW - here's a closeup of the texture:

 

[stamptoolsupremacy]

Certainly. "heather" is a color effect created by combining two or more different colored yarns in the making of a garment.



Any color variation caused by the heather effect should be eliminated when you render the selected shirt to black and white. You do this by making a selection of the shirt that you want to be red, adding a Black & Whiter adjustment layer first, then colorize the shirt.

Blue heather shirt.
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Now Black and White. You will find adjustment layers under LAYER >NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER.
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Now Red.
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You will still have the light and dark variances in the shirt......................is this what you're trying to get rid of because you stated "coloring"?

Sorry, I should've been more clear--I meant turning the heather shirt into a solid color. But thank you for reply! definitely helpful for when I have to do other color changes.

 

[stamptoolsupremacy]

@thebestcpu - I interpreted the request same as you ie get rid of the heather "texture" and make the turtleneck a solid color.
I also struggled in trying to figure out how to smooth out that texture - that was a great suggestion going into camera raw and using the texture and clarity sliders.

Here's the workspace and result I ended up with - only a rough example to see how it worked:

View attachment 123872

*NOTE - her left shoulder (the right in the image) is blown out in the original image. That should be repaired before making color edits I think...

- Jeff

that looks pretty good to me! and yeah haha not sure what happened to her shoulder, but I'm definitely going to fix that too.

 

[stamptoolsupremacy]

One way to remove heather (the high frequency tone variations) is to:
Make it a Smart Object
Apply the Camera Raw Filter
Turn down the clarity and/or the texture.
You would need an appropriate mask to apply it only to the shirt.
From there I will assume you know how to color the shirt yet if not just ask more questions of the forum
Here is a GIF showing before and after with the above technique
John Wheeler

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thanks for this reply--going to try this method now, and I'll let you know how it goes.