New To Photoshop And Having Trouble With Gray For All Changes To Colors

Question

Hi. I'm new here and have been wracking my brain on trying to change a color in an image I'm working on. I want to change the color of a woman's hosiery from nude to sheer black, but when I use the color picker and then the color replacement tool, all I get is a bluish gray nomatter what i do. i can't find a solution to my problem anywhere on the net. I also have a similar problem with the subjet's hair, which I want to change from blonde to auburn. Nothing works. I was successful in changing the color of her skirt, but that was all I could get right. Please help! Thanks.

hatstead · Accepted Answer

It would help if you post the picture (or similar) for us to look at. There are several ways to do this. Try this as it pertains to the hosiery:

1. Open the picture file

2. Activate the Magic wand tool. The default setting is 32. You may have to adjust this value, but start with 32. In the dialog, check "Contiguous."

3. Left click on the hosiery. This will select it with a visible outline.

4. Be sure that your foreground color chip is set to black

5. Activate the Paintbucket tool, and left click within the outline to fill with black

6. Press CTRL+D to get rid of the outline ("marching ants").

As to the subject's hair:
1. Activate the lasso tool or the magnetic lasso tool, and carefully make a selection of the hair

2. Place the selection on its own layer (Press CTRL+J)

3. Open a Hue/saturation adjustment layer above this and link these 2 layers (Press CTRL+G)

4. In the dialog that opens, check the colorize box. Work the Hue/saturation/lighness sliders to arrive at the auburn tint that you have in mind. This technique should preserve the luminosity of the hair.

Greg_S. · Answer

There are probably better ways to do this, but here is one way that may work for you.

Make a selection of the hosiery and place it on a separate layer (press Ctrl+J)
Select the color replacement tool and use the eyedroppers to select the current color.
Click on the replacement color and change the replacement color RGB or Hex # to zero (black).
Bring the Saturation and Lightness sliders down to -100.
If there are degrees of luminosity in the hosiery, change the fuzziness slider until you get the desired lighting effect.

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