Match color command in Photoshop Elements

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June 14, 2020
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I've read that in Photoshop there is a Match Color command to match the colors between two images. Is such a command also available in Photoshop elements? If not is there a way to achieve the same in Elements? Thanks!

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J

Jayce 01

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In PSE 12 i used duplicate the back ground layer and forget the other steps. i learnt this from a utube video. i cannot seem to get this video

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Jayce 01

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I have seen in PSE 2024 under the windows tab - Images - match location

Try it

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terence21981657g3ek

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'Match Color' now seems to be available in the latest (2024) version of Photoshop Elements. If you are not inclined to update, then there are free color-match web apps online some of which claim to offer a superior performance. (just type 'image color transfer' into your search engine)

Glenn 8675309

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A screenshot from pse 2024

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terence21981657g3ek

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Looks like photoshop elements 2024 color match uses Lab plus Preserve luminance as shown below in the settings from photoshop 2024 Color Transfer.

photoshop 2024 Color Transfer

photoshop elements 2024 Color Match

Thank you, Jeff,

Well spotted.

That wasn’t what I expected, given that the function is still designated as Beta in Photoshop 2024.

I wonder why they haven’t improved on this. It isn’t that difficult to improve the performance. I have developed a (Beta stage) Action in which Neural Color Transfer is just one of the steps. It seems to do better. The Neural Color Transfer processing has, I assume, been optimised for stand-alone processing. Presumably a Neural Filter that has been re-optimised to operate within my Action sequence would do better again, so there is further stretch potential here.

I have developed a new method of Colour Transfer aimed at a specialist application which gives yet a different outcome!

The base and palette images for this processing come from a paper ‘Deep Photo Style Transfer’ (2017). Two of the authors of that paper are (or were) Adobe employees. For the subject images, the current PS processing does better than was achieved in the paper. However, some of the good examples of processing in the paper are probably not matched by the current PS implementation. Presumably, it has been made more robust. The best cases are no longer so good but the worst case are no longer so bad.

99jon

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I think it can only be done manually in PSE. In the example below (see web images) I have selected the woman and made a composite with the background. I’ve then added a hue/saturation adjustment layer and clipped it to layer 1 so that it only affects the woman and not the background. I adjusted the lightness and saturation sliders to get a more acceptable blend. You could also try a highlights/shadows adjustment layer.