Copy paste a color from one part of a picture to another in PSE14

garyl50 wrote: I am only an occasional user of PSE 14. I have a picture where I need to COPY a color from one part of a picture and paste that color into a selection in another part of a picture, and then feather it so that it blends in smoothly. I used to be able to do this in PSE 9 but can't figure out how to do it in PSE 14. I have gotten as far as using the Quick Selection tool outline the "defective" area that needs to be covered up. There is plenty of usable background elsewhere in the photo that I could paste there, but every time I try to do that it creates a "hole" and deletes it from where I'm copying FROM. What tool and procedure should I be using. I know this is pretty elementary, I'm just not in this program often enough to be proficient. Gary L.

Gary,

1. Open your picture file
2. Use one of the selection tools, e.g.  lasso tool or selection brush, to select the "defective" area
3. Place the selected area on its own layer (CTRL+J)
4. Open a Hue/saturation adjustment layer above the layer created in step #3
5. Link these two layers (CTRL+G)
6. In the hue/sat dialog, check "colorize", and work the 3 sliders (hue/saturation/lightness) to obtain the color match.

Try something like this:

1) Make the selction where you want to change the color;

2) Click on the Color picker tool once and then on to your source color;  This copies the color;

3) Activate the Bucket tool from the Tools bar;

4) Click on your selection.

This should change it.