How can I paint this red brick house but keep all the shadowing and details in the brick? I have tried creating a mask, adding my color, then changing to color mode but it ends up looking black and white.
You may consider doing the work entirely in Lab Color mode where color adjustment is discrete from tone and texture. No sliders, mninum brush work, editable mask and color and texture.
Step 1. Create the Mask
1. Change Mode to Lab Color and choose the Channels panel.
2. Duplicate theachannel and choose it (a copy)
3. Choose Curves and increase the contrast as shown
4. Touch up with hard-edged brush to complete the mask
5. Choose layers, add a duplicate layer and add the mask to the top layer
Step 2. Change the brick color
6. Choose Curves and theachannel.
7. Change the curve to bisect the grid in the center, horizontally, as shown.
8.Repeat with thebchannel
The brick color is now neutral gray and maintains the texture of the brick. (The gray value is now similar in lightness to the red brick.
Step 3. Change the gray value to white while maintaining texture.
9. Bend the curve using its Lightness channel to produce your preference of whiteness, contrast and texture. Color will not change.
10. The mask and Lightness curve are available for tweaking.
Thank you Dave!! This is helpful but what if I need the color to be a specific color of Sherwin Williams paint (i have alrady uploaded those colors.) So I need to be able to put a white paint color on the house AND see the brick detail....is this possible? Here is a screenshot of what happens when I am trying. What am I doing wrong?
you have been so helpful...i know its just user error and I want to cry out of frustration. I can not get this to work right and it is imperative i figure this out!!
steps i used
duplicate image
create mask
add specific white color to mask
played with curve tool
still looks like this. - - flat color
What "specific white colour" are you using and I will set it up here?
I would start with Image> adjustments> channel mixer, through the brick mask. You want to put the channel with the best texture and detail on the black channel and adjust the CMY to be a neutral cream color. Adjust the levels to fine tune.