Color It with PS Elements One of the most frequent topics requested by readers revolves around changing or replacing a color. We've had all kinds. Clothing, cars, food, what have you. In the spring we always get a rash of email asking how to change the color of various features of homes and gardens. This January we had several requests for this technique in Photoshop Elements, both version 2 and 3. Garmin map install for mac.

You can change color of multiple objects in Photoshop Elements quickly and easily. To duplicate the Background Layer press Command-J on a Mac or Control-J if you're using a Windows PC. That wraps up this Photoshop Elements tutorial on how to change color of multiple objects.

Sampling color is not new to the computer world, we've been doing it since the mid 1980s. In this demonstration we'll show you two ways to do it -- both of which work well in either version of Elements as well as in Photoshop. One method involves making a selection first, and the other replaces all the chosen colors in the whole file. Audiobook converter for mac sierra. Although we prefer making the selection, the second version is easier and works well -- but only so long as the color you're replacing is not wide spread throughout the file. For safety sake we'll work on a copy of the image.

Drag the image in the Layers Palette and drop it on the New Layer button to generate an exact copy to work on. Make a Trial Run Remember, one of the cardinal rules of these image editing programs is that when there's a selection active the changes you make affect only the pixels contained within the selection. If there's no selection, then the changes affect the entire layer -- or file.

To demonstrate this, make a rough selection using the Lasso tool. If you wish to fine-tune your selection, remember that holding the Option (Alt) key while making a new selection will remove that portion from the existing selection. Likewise, holding the Shift key to the Lasso tool will add the new selection to the existing selections. Choose Enhance > Adjust Color > Replace Color The resulting dialog offers three Eyedroppers, some sliders and a thumbnail mask of the selected image.

Use the Eyedropper to sample the color you wish to change. Since we isolated the area to be acted upon with a selection, we can set the fuzziness of the selection relatively high to get all the yellow color. Now slide the Hue slider to make another color. We slid slightly to the left (-10 to -15) to get a vivid cherry red. With Preview checked, you can see the color change affected only that portion of the image contained in the Lasso selection.

(Indicated by the 'racing ants') About Fuzziness High Fuzziness settings will select more pixels related to the target color, and low settings select less. If the setting is one (1) then you get only that pixel color you selected.

Settings of 128 will actually encompass other colors in addition to the target color. We contained our work area in a selection knowing that much of the wall in the background would contain some of the more light pale yellow colors -- which needed to remain unchanged. Making the Selection Since we need to isolate the actions to just the car, we'll need a good selection. We started out using the Magic Wand tool selecting the most predominate yellows. This gets the selection started.