Need help with colorizing.

[mathiasschnell]

This is all using Photoshop CS4.

I have an image that is mostly red with black text over it, as shown here...


Using Photoshop I was able to use the Colorize tool (Ctrl+U) to change it to orange, shown here...


I had made macros to do this and other colors, but now they appear to be gone and I don't know why, so I'm trying to make them again. The problem is that I can't remember, for the life of me, the exact combination of options in Colorize that lead to this shade of orange. I know the exact RGB and HSB values of both the start and end colors, but I can't figure out how to get from one to the next and although I can see the preview before I click 'Yes', it's still quite hard. Could anyone figure out the exact combo of options that turns this red into this orange or know of some other method of going from one color to the other that might be better?

Source color: H - 0, S - 62%, B 91%, R 232, G 89, B 89
End color: H - 30, S 76%, B 96%, R 245, G 151, B 60

 

[Vafann]

I don´t know how to do what you want, but if it is just that you want to be able to use the exact same orange color somewhere else, you could just use the eyedropper colorpicker tool, and the fill whatever it is with that color? I don´t know if this helps, but I tried lol.

 

[mathiasschnell]

Update - Never was able to figure out how to colorize to the exact color I wanted, but I just redid my macros and went with whatever shades of orange, yellow and green worked out. In the end it was probably for the better and now I have all the colors I want on all the images I want.