Comments on: Replace Color

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:54:07 +0000

Thanks! There are so many ways to accomplish a task in PS… it’s baffling to someone who’s not a frequent user. And the Adobe site assumes too much prior knowledge.

You hit my problem right on the head.

By: JeffOYB

JeffOYB — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:56:20 +0000

Wow, Amy Lear saves the day! I have been googling and studying this problem for TWO HOURS despite having many other urgent tasks to do.

All I wanted to do was change a black lineart scan I had made into a color.

Amy’s solution is the ONLY ONE THAT WORKS and THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE THAT MENTIONS IT! How can we, the public, get this solution more prominence? I think it is very common that people want to change the black of scans of black lineart into various colors.

Wow, thanks again! Saved my day. I had zero other leads.

I’m helping my kids launch a Cafepress shop for their sketches — to put them onto t-shirts and such. I wanted to make the art into various colors. Now I can! …And now I can get back to real work!!! (And, heck, I’ve used Photoshop since it was invented! I get behind a few years because I keep using the same good ol’ versions that I get familiar with. When I finally update I’m LOST LOST!

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:38:41 +0000

Thank you so much. Super easy…I thought simply replacing the main image color was going to be far more complicated! Cheers.

By: Harps

Harps — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:02:15 +0000

Amy Lear, you are a lifesaver! Thank you

By: drbeasley30

drbeasley30 — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:22:55 +0000

Thank you about changing the foreground…Ive been trying to do this for almost an hour

By: adrian

adrian — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:37:00 +0000

For the greyscale / black replace issue.

Solution:

1. Make a selection for the area you wish to replace the color – select, color range
2. Layer -> Layer Style -> Color overlay

done

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:58:13 +0000

Excellent tutorial!!! Thank you so much for this. Very useful…

By: Ric Faust

Ric Faust — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:39:52 +0000

@bemused…

The “Paint Bucket Tool” is paired up with the “Gradient Tool” in your toolbar. You probably see the gradient tool, just whole your mouse button down on that image and it will expand giving you the option to use the paint bucket. Another way is to hold the Shift down and press “G” (at least in Windows).

By: Try this

Try this — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:57:51 +0000

The black problem – I think the replace color tool has a problem working in 16 bit mode. Try 8 bit mode – it sort of worked for me

By: bemused

bemused — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:13:51 +0000

Thanks Amy Lear, you are the ONE person who’s answered this helpfully.

Julie W, wtf is “Paint Bucket Tool”?? Are you sure you’re not using MS Paint??