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Changing the color of the blanket

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
December 21, 2016
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Good day everyone,

My sister wants me to change the color of the blanket in the images she gave me and I'm having a bit of trouble making it more natural.

I've tried making a new layer and putting the paintbrush at 37% opacity and painting over the blanket, but I'm having so much difficulty in maintaining a clean edge while trying not to go over previous areas and avoiding grass in the image (I'll try to attach it to this post).

Does anyone have any good tips or tricks for doing this?

Thanks in advance.

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Terri Stevens

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I probably should know this, but how did the OP upload a 32MB file when we can only upload 8MB files? I've seen this before so must be missing something. I think this is more difficult than it looks as there are some strange color effects around the blanket, the grass seems to have picked up on reflected pink light and there is a lot of chromatic aberration around the little girl-so I would guess this was taken with a phone or a low end camera-none the less it's a lovely photograph. I just used Christoph's and Silkroosters method as a gradient map didn't work. so won't repeat what they have already said.

davescm

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Terri Stevens wrote:
I probably should know this, but how did the OP upload a 32MB file when we can only upload 8MB files?

It was 3.14MB not 32MB

Dave

Terri Stevens

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Clever idea Dave. Did you use the clone tool to remove the blanket? I think I prefer the more organic look of the girl sitting just on the grass, it looks more natural. The only problem with the crop is the OP might want to use the image as a signed Christmas card and the name is going to look a little cramped

I have worked out why I got a 32MB file-It's because the Edge browser in Windows 10 only saves as .png whereas Chrome and Firefox only save as jpeg. It's a massive difference though 32MB compared to 3.14MB. Also Windows reports the png image as 32bit which it's not and the jpeg as 24 bit. One day Microsoft will get graphic right.

I thought I'd ruin your image by making it look like a card Dave

Silkrooster

Legend

As you can see it can be done, but it will take time due to the grass. Especially since some of the grass is the same color - assumption is this was colored before.

Start with Select>Color Range then use Select and Mask (double click the mask thumbnail or click on it in the properties panel)

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I've tried making a new layer and putting the paintbrush at 37% opacity and painting over the blanket

That seems to be less than ideal.

Instead you should probably use Adjustment Layers (or at least a Layer with a Blend Mode other than Normal) and Layer Masks.

T

TheCorgiLadyAuthor

Participant

I like what you did here, would you be able to "walk" me through your process?

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I used an Lab-copy’s a- and b-Channels as the basis for the Layer Mask of the Group, but as Silkrooster mentioned Color Range is also an option.

Inside the Group are a Hue/Saturation- and a Curves-Adjustment Layer, the first to colorize and the second one the darken.

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