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JohnB47
JohnB47
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June 4, 2019
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How do I get this 'remove colour' tutorial to work?

  • June 4, 2019
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Hi folks. My first post here.

I have Photoshop CS5 Extended and I'm relearning lots of things I knew how to do but have now forgotten.

I have been trying to follow the tutorial (a written one, not a video) that I link below, to show how you can select a colour in an image and then remove that colour. I get to the point where it says to use the eye dropper tool to sample an area. When I click with the sampler, the sample is always pure white.

Curiously, I did get this working once but I forgot which buttons I pressed to get to that point! I then closed the image down and tried again, but no go. (I thought it was because I had a brush tool selected last, rather than the hand tool, but no).

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? Thanks.

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/photo-filter/

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    Correct answer Norman Sanders

    >Not your fault. The reason you are getting a white patch is that the Color Filter command is accessing the mask in the Photo Filter Adjustment Laye rather  than the image. After adding the Color Filter, Adjjustment layer click on the Mask and delete it. Then proceed as instructed.

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    Jeff Arola
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    Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 5, 2019

    Photoshop cs2, that's the version the screenshots in the tutorial are from.

    Cs2 no longer had the Link Column just to the left of the layer palette thumbnails and cs3 had a very distinct ui as seen in jj Macks screenshots.

    JohnB47
    JohnB47Author
    Participant
    June 6, 2019

    Thanks for these additional replies. I must be more careful when viewing tutorials.

    Jeff Arola
    Community Expert
    Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 6, 2019

    Generally tutorials for other versions of photoshop will work with cs5.

    If you run into problems just come here and ask.

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    June 4, 2019

    That tutorial old.  Have CS3 installed and Photo Filter Adjustment works like in that tutorial. The Photo Filter popup opens ant the current tool becomes the eye dropper  and the foreground color swatch changes to whatever color I   The Other version versions of Photoshop I have installed CS6, CC 2014, CC 2018 and CC 2019 the Photo Filter works differently.  There is no Popup dialog. The Adjustment layer is added and is the target layer.  There is a Properties Palette you can changer the Photo Filters  color in.

    In all cases you need to click on the Color Square in the The Filter properties Panel to bring up the color picker Panel. Then pick a color in the images via mouse eyedropper then invert the color  by - the two colors in the color picket panel.

    JJMack
    Norman Sanders
    Norman SandersCorrect answer
    Legend
    June 4, 2019

    >Not your fault. The reason you are getting a white patch is that the Color Filter command is accessing the mask in the Photo Filter Adjustment Laye rather  than the image. After adding the Color Filter, Adjjustment layer click on the Mask and delete it. Then proceed as instructed.

    JohnB47
    JohnB47Author
    Participant
    June 4, 2019

    Wonderful. That is the answer. I'll contact the tutorial host and let them know that there is an omission in the tutorial.

    Thanks.

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