Comments on: Replace Color

By: Matt Rockett

Matt Rockett — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:36:39 +0000

I found something that worked great for me that will work for black (that’s what I used it on), select all the shade of black that you picked, you won’t have to keep shit-clicking to add to the selection, it will include the open spaces between lettering, not mess up gradients, and not change the color of the whole image. Here it is:

Go to Select->Color Range and if it doesn’t already pick up the color you want to select, click on the color and hit ok.

You will see all of the selection (which includes small lines, everything that color)

Go to Layer->New Fill Layer->Solid Color and select the color that you want.

Technically this covers up the old color but it gets the job done, even on black; in fact, I haven’t tried it on any other color.

Hope you enjoy!

By: Liz Mudd

Liz Mudd — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:06:08 +0000

Okay, this thread hasn’t been commented on for a while but, whatever.

For those of you trying to change a COLOR to BLACK one way thats worked for me is to select the area you want to change and then go to Image>Adjustments>Black & White and then adjust the sliders as you please. For example, if there was an area of blue you wanted to be black you would have to move either the Cyan or the Blue slider (depending on the hue of what you want to change – I would try to use both if it were possible, just to be safe) and bring the marker into the blackest part of the slider. Of course, this could result in unwanted areas being adjusted if not slected correctly.

As far as changing BLACK to a COLOR, I still can’f figure that one out either, sorry. Nothing probably works because photoshop doesn’t recognize black or white as a color.

Anyway, hope this was helpful. GOOD LUCK!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:22:03 +0000

Thanks to Amy Lear for finally answering the question.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:44:09 +0000

I have a picture with a girl wearing a white shirt taken on a white background. I want to move her to another picture but i can’t see all her shirt to make a seletion, what do i do for this?

Jim

By: pete

pete — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:00:28 +0000

HUGE time saver. THANKS!!

By: clarinha

clarinha — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:26:09 +0000

ok foto pq

By: Onesie

Onesie — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:56:32 +0000

I was having the same trouble figuring out how to do this with black – the Replace Color tool just doesn’t work. In the end I tried just using the old fashioned paint bucket tool, and it worked perfectly.

By: Bishop Michael D. Jones

Bishop Michael D. Jones — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 05:18:20 +0000

THANKS, THIS TUTORIAL WAS A GREAT HELP FOR ME. I’VE ALWAYS WONDERED HOW DO YOU CHANGE THE COLOR OF AN LOGO AND ETC WITHOUT HAVING TO START FROM SCRATCH.

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!