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Alter hue of selected area to that of adjacent sampled area how ?

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January 17, 2025
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Hi,

CS6 or 26.2

Is there a way to select an area and have it take on the hue of another selected area ?

I have a long roof and its got some translucent orange light creep running over part of it from a leaky camera body 35mm era.

I can see same detail, just its a different hue.

I wish to make it same as the roof beside that orange streak.

Either select it as a mask in photoshop, then sample the good area and say source this hue to the masked area, or select the good roof and paint that hue over the wonky area. a hue transfer brush,, or some other way.

I also had grass same need., a translucent orange light creep across it.

Is there a clever way of selecting the afflicted orange streak area and having a selection made in an auto way ? Capturing the edges fade better than with a brush and softness.

using the method again on the trees, colour mode best, but I cannot get them to the same punchy appearance as those immediate left of them, , trying levels contrast hue sat light, on the layer with the painted brush on it, nothing seems to happen much. Whats the trick there ?

Merlin3

Windows

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@Merlin3– Without seeing the image, I'd try adding a new blank layer set to colour or hue blend mode, sampling the desired colour with the eyedropper, and then painting in the new layer with a brush. There are different variations on this general approach, such as adding a solid fill layer with a black layer mask and painting in white on the mask.

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Merlin3Author

Inspiring

Hi,

three examples attached first one distant shot of trees, having to try and fix a reflection from within the helicopter the trees are a different hue, I wish to select the wrong hue part and then say to Pshop match the hue of that at left and/or that at right., by selecting an area with lasso tool or paint in quickmask mode. or pipette set to a large sample. I would prefer drawing an area to supply the most area to sample from.

In the second closer to view of ground there is some minor light bleed across the 35mm film, gone a bit orange, so select the grass and trees and say match the hue of area to left.

Third example light bleed this time across tarmac, need to sample the adjacent tarmac and say match the hue in that area, likeweise the grass there. to match the strip of grass. perhaps the grass and tarmac in one 'hit' would do it, being all of one correct unafflicted area ?

Hope these are ok.

any chance of a step by step ?

I keep needing to do this sort of thing, messing about with colour balance, hue and tint sliders never seems to get it same. and I spent hours fiddling. In fact I bet many need this.

Merlin

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

any chance of a step by step ?

By @Merlin3

One possible method:

Add a new layer, change it's blend mode to Color or Hue mode
Select the Brush tool
Depress the Alt/Opt modifier key to temporarily change to the Eydropper tool
Sample the wanted/good colour
Release the modifier key and paint in the new layer
You can sample and paint other colours to add variation, using brush opacity, blend modes, or Gaussian Blur the layer etc.

Note: instead of using the brush tool, you could use the Clone Stamp tool to paint with variation. Or use the mixer brush etc.

P.S. You may find that you also need to account for tonal issues, which color or hue mode doesn't address.

There are many different methods and what works for one image may not work for another. In other cases, you may need adjustment layers such as Hue/Saturation and use a gradient in the layer mask or hand paint the layer mask.

Semaphoric

Community Expert

Maybe Select > Color Range, with Localized Color Clusters.

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