Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Color matching with Photoshop - a tutorial

Client of mine customer wanted to see how a few Basketball Shorts with one saw certain Jersey. The only problem was that we are not the Jersey and shorts on the page in the same color. Instead of time and money sending the right color to lose our head office, we have an image with inappropriate colours (the Jersey was Royal Blue, and the short films were scarlet) and the color of the Jersey in Photoshop the shorts appropriately amended. I am going to show you how to replace and correspond to colors in images, so that you can use this awesome tool itself.

Open your image in Photoshop. Save this image and give it a new name, then you open the original image again. You have now two copies of the original image open. First, we will use the copy, not going on any color changes have. We will call this image of the source image. Choose as much as possible about the object, the color that has a selection tool is copied. You can use the magic wand, Lasso or other selection tool. I have the magnetic Lasso to make my selection. I clicked on most of the shorts, so much of the red color as I could. As you can see, it is not necessary to select all the object for which you transmitted the color, but you want to get the full Spectum of the color, so that the new color will be accurate.

Now, go back to the other image. This is the image, which you the color on replaced will be will be. It is the target image. Right-click on the background layer in the layers panel and choose Duplicate layer.
By default, this new layer is called background copy. I'm going to call to replace this layer, color and click OK, complete the step.

We use this duplicate level the original image to get. You use the selection tool of your choice to the entire range you select where the color is to be replaced. Again, I have the magic wand tool.

Now go to the file menu and select image > settings > same color.

The match color settings window opens. In this example, we need not fear that the three sliders in the image options. Make sure that the two boxes are checked under image statistics. Check the top box, it means only the field in the source image selected use color adjustment for that instead of colors from the entire image. The second boxed verifies that only the selected area in the target image will be affected. In addition to source: You choose the source image. You will be in the position, a small image of source next the name of the source image you will find below. Then click OK.

In my example, the shirt is now red instead of blue, but there is still some work to do. We will contrast of the new red shirts. Make sure that this level in the layers panel is still selected. Click in the layers panel to create new fill or adjustment layer, and select levels.

A histogram is displayed.

There are three arrows at the bottom of the histogram. A black one on the left side that controls the shaded areas. It is a grey arrow in the Middle, and then a white one on the right side that controls the hightlights. I'm going to slide of the black and White arrows to inside to the contrast in the Red looks what I should be there. If your picture looks faded, this is how you fix it. Now I will choose luminosity in the layers panel so that the overall colour of this new layer, only the brightness of the color is not affected.

There you have it. We have a perfect example image to send to our customers. Is it much easier for our customers to decide whether you want, such as the Jersey and shorts together now look. With a blue top and Red soils were you almost certainly don't like the game. It came comes in handy, so that the customers, we present a suitable uniform.


Lisa Robbins is one of the founders of the WebsiteTemplateDatabase.com, a resource for Free website templates and Photoshop tutorials.

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