A client of the customer of mine wanted to see how a pair of shorts basketball examined with a special Jersey. The only problem is that we did not have the jersey and shorts on hand in the same color. Instead of losing time and money the color appropriate to our main Office of mailing, we took a photo with mismatching colours (the Jersey was blue royal and shorts were scarlet) and change the color of the Jersey in Photoshop to match the short films. I'll show you how to replace and match the colors in images you can use this awesome tool yourself.
Open the image in Photoshop. Save this image and give it a new name, and then open again the original image. You should now have two copies of the original image open. First, we will work with the copy that does not have any change of colour. We are going to call this image, the Image Source. Select as much as possible of the object whose color is copied using a selection tool. You can use the magic wand, Lasso, or another selection tool. I used the magnetic Lasso to make my choices. I clicked on the main section of short films to get as much red as I could. As you can see, it is not necessary to select all of the object for which you are transferring the color, but you do not want to get the full color spectum, therefore the new color will be accurate.
Return now to the other image. This is the image that you will replace the color on. It is the Destination Image. Click with the right button on the background layer in the layers panel, and then select double layer.
By default this new layer will be called background copy. I will rename this layer color replace, and then click OK to complete the step.
We will work with this layer duplicated to preserve the original image. Use your choice selection tool to select the entire area where the color must be replaced. Yet again, I used the magic wand tool.
Now, go to file menu and choose Image > adjustments > Match color.
The colour of the Match Options window will appear. For this example we need not to worry the three sliders under Image Options. Under the statistical picture, make sure that both boxes are checked. Check the top check box means that only the zone selected in the Source Image will be used for the color matching instead of colors of the entire image. The second box is checked indicating that only the zone selected in the Destination Image will be affected. Next to the Source: select the Image Source. You will see a small image of the Source next to the name of the Source Image. Click on OK.
In my example, the Jersey is now red instead of blue, but there is still some work to be done. We will adjust the contrast of the new red Jersey. Make sure this layer is still selected in the layers panel. In the layers panel, click on create new fill or the layer adjustment and select levels.
A histogram will appear.
There are three arrows at the bottom of the histogram. A black left control the darkness of the shaded areas. There is a grey arrow in the Middle, and then a right white control highlights. I'm going to slide the incoming arrows black and white until the contrast in the Red examines how I want to go. If your image is faded, this is how correct you. Now, I am going to in the layers panel to select brightness, so the overall colour is not affected by this new layer, only the brightness of the color.
There you have it. We have an image of the sample perfect to send to our customers. It will be much easier for our customers to decide if they like how the jersey and shorts look together now. With a blue top and Red they were almost certain does not in any of the game. This process came in very handy, allowing us to present to the client a corresponding uniform.
Lisa Robbins is one of the founders of WebsiteTemplateDatabase.com, a resource for Photoshop tutorialsand free website templates .
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