Replace Color - No adjustment layer

Important Step for each color adjustment:

Create a new layer and adjust the image layer. It is easier to delete a layer you don't like than to go back and undo changes.

• If necessary, open the layers palette by clicking Windows>Layers
• Right click the background layer
• Click Duplicate Layer on the popup menu
• Name layer replace color
• You only make changes to a layer that is selected -- selected layer is blue
• You can turn the visibility of layers off and on by clicking the eye at the left of the layer -- turn off the layers above the layer you just created

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Replace Color command

Image>Adjustments>Replace Color command lets you create a mask around specific colors and then replace those colors in the image.

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Try it!

• Click Image>Adjustments>Replace Color
• Select a display option:
  • Selection to display the mask in the preview box. Masked areas are black, and unmasked areas are white. Partially masked areas (areas covered with a semitransparent mask) appear as varying levels of gray according to their opacity.
  • Image to display the image in the preview box.
• Click in the image or in the preview box to select the areas exposed by the mask.
  • Use the eyedropper + button to add areas
  • Use the eyedropper - button to remove areas.
  • Drag the Fuzziness slider to adjust the tolerance of the mask to control the degree to which related colors are included in the selection.
  • Drag the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness sliders (or enter values in the text boxes) to change the color of the selected areas.
  • The sample color will change based on how you drag the sliders

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Example

In the image below, I used replace color to increase the yellow in the bananas

• Checked Selection, and used the +eyedropper to select the yellow areas of the bananas
• Increase the Hue + 13 and the Saturation +39

 

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