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FEB Photoshop Color Replacement Tool Ad via The Deck

06
2006 at 09.08 am posted by Veerle

Some tools don ’t get enough attention, this tool might be one of

them. You could compare it somehow with the Healing Brush, Coca Cola - The Happiness Factory
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although there is a difference. This tool works like a regular paint
brush, it manipulates the color on your image while the underlying A CSS styled table version 2
texture stays unaffected. Because of this, you can apply a color August 20, 2007 - 68 comments
change in a more precision way.
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If you select the tool in the Toolbox, you'll get to see the various options in the Options bar like
different Modes to work with in which the Replace Color Tool can be applied: Hue, Saturation, Color
and Luminosity. The Hue will apply the replacement in the most subtle way, while the Color mode might
result is a far too vibrant effect.

Sampling determines the source for the color replacement. " Continuous" means you will be
continuously sampling as you go. " Background Swatch" uses the background swatch as a pre -defined use advanced search

sample color. Only areas containing the current background color will be replaced. " Once" will replace
the targeted color only in areas containing the color that you've first clicked.

You also have Limits options. " Contiguous" will replace colors that are contiguous with the color
immediately under the pointer " Discontinuous" will replace the sample color under the pointer
wherever you go. " Find Edges" will replace connected areas containing the sampled color while
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preserving the sharpness of the shape edges. and reach designers everywhere

The Tolerance is a bit like with other tools, the higher the percentage the broader the range and the
more colors will be replaced. Check the antialiasing option to get softer edges, although it could give
you a less precise result. You can use the " Find Edges" options to limit the antialiasing.

The foreground color will be used as your new color that will replace the unwanted color.

BEFORE AND AFTER

THIS IS WHAT I DID:

choose the "Once" option for the more dangerous areas and the "Continuous" for the safer areas
used the "Hue" mode for a more subtle replacement (the others will create pretty drastic results)
used the "Color" mode in combination with a less vibrant color to enhance the pink color of the shirt
used the "Background Swatch" sampling option to resolve the grey areas

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AkaXakA Sun Mar 5, 2006 at 04.26 pm

1 Tried this myself the other day (though as your journal was offline at the time, I had to do it
from memory) - and ehm, I need practice :)

JohnXarc Mon Mar 6, 2006 at 06.49 am

2 Thanks for the tips, much appreciated.

Nice and simple.

Love the site. You ’re getting rave reviews in Ireland, by the way.

muha Wed Mar 8, 2006 at 12.24 am

3 i tried myself but i couldn ’t

Dann Winter Sat Mar 11, 2006 at 08.08 pm

4 I think you must be especific in each step cause there are newbies that donà ‚´t 
understand it.

Clark MacLeod Tue Mar 14, 2006 at 08.32 pm

5 You are using CS2 I guess?

Silus Tue Mar 28, 2006 at 01.55 am

6 I always wondered how those options worked, thanks!

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