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Quickly Change A Color

 

Use an Adjustment Layer to easily change a color in your photo, and then quickly change it back if things don’t work out.

Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education and Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is involved in all aspects of the training that is provided to NAPP members. Dave’s book “The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk” is now available on ScottKelbyBooks.com

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5 Comments

  1. Photoshop Video Tutorials | Photoshop | Best collection of free video tutorials on software and internet applications Pingback on — April 24, 2008 @ 10:41 am

    [...] – that you can move  (planetphotoshop.com) changing color  (studio204.tlt.psu.edu) Quickly Change A Color :   (planetphotoshop.com) Image Toning 2 : use Levels and Adjustment Layers to separate and [...]

  2. Sarah said on — June 12, 2008 @ 10:29 pm

    I watched this, and started to edit an old photo of myself, just as an experimental piece. I wanted to change my eye to red, and my skin to a greyish color, basically transforming myself into a demon. I changed the eyes, and then I froze, unsure how to do a different color change for a different part. So I just made a new layer, just like the first.. And it worked wonderfully. My photo, as we speak, has red eyes, and the skin is being transformed. I may even change my teeth into a yellowish color.. (Gross, I know..) Thanks for the wonderful tips!

  3. Sarah said on — June 12, 2008 @ 10:32 pm

    Also, insteand of using a paintbrush, or even the lasso tool, to fill in the areas with the new color, you could simply use the magic wand tool, select that area, and press Alt+Backspace (A trick I learned in the “Wall of Text” tutorial, the first I watched), and, viola! That area is simply and easily filled.

    By the way, I only just started with photoshop 2 or maybe 3 days ago, and I’ve already learned all of this from your tutorials, and from improvising material from one, and applying it to another lesson. Thank you so much!

  4. drdank said on — January 24, 2009 @ 7:16 pm

    i have been wondering how to get this done. very simple and pretty damn handy!

    thanks for your productions

  5. Jessica said on — May 8, 2009 @ 3:34 pm

    i like Coreys tutorials more

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