TIPS & TUTORIALS: Changing Colors using Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll be doing a selective change of color. There several ways of doing this. I’ll be demonstrating a simple method. In the sample photograph, I’d like to change the color of the t-shirt from green to, say, pink.

We need to open a new adjustment layer. Go to >LAYERS >NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER >HUE/SATURATION

Click the <<OK>> button to create the layer.

The adjustment control of the HUE/SATURATION layer will pop-out as shown below.

From the Edit window, change the setting from <<Master>> to <<Greens>>

After changing the Edit window setting, you can move the slider control of Hue from left to right depending on the color you want. In this exercise, we’ll move it to the left until we get the value -135. At this setting we’ll get the approximate color of pink/pinkish.

Then we change the blending mode of the layer from <<Normal>> to <<Hue>>. This will blend the adjustment layer seamlessly into the photo.

Adjustments made through the adjustment layers affcets the entire photo. In which case we need to mask the portion of the photo that we dont want the colors changed or affected. From the Tool panel, select <<Brush Tool>>. Make sure the foreground color is black and that “Edit in standard mode” is selected as shown below.