best way/program to re-colorize images?

Tuesday, November 19, 2002 by Breakpoint138 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I was wondering if there is an easy way to recolorize/change colors for images.. Are there certain options or programs that do it for you or is it all manual editing? I do have adobe photoshop 7.

thanks...
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bakerstreet
Reply #1 Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:34 AM
image > adjustments

beyond that, you can use adjustment layers and a brush.

GreatSilverWyrm
Reply #2 Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:55 AM
the best way i have found is either make a new color layer and put it over top of the image u wish to colorize

or go to image-adjustments-hue/saturation

Breakpoint138
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:29 AM
thanks guys .. appreciate it..

its really unbelievable how many options/etc there are in these paint programs its almost frustrating trying to figure them all out..




bakerstreet
Reply #4 Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:37 AM
Photoshop is a very expensive peice of equipment that is designed to do hundreds of differend jobs. It is complicated, but once you have it you can use those skills to do a lot of diverse things. Many people consider using it a pain, but I consider it an education.

You can use adjustment layers as I said above, and set them to 'color' or one of the others to get the results you need, depending on the situation. Whatever you do don't paint on the same layer as the original. Adjustment layers will help you paint only the colors, without painting over detail. Look up 'adjustment layers' in the help file.

Breakpoint138
Reply #5 Wednesday, November 20, 2002 3:57 AM
damn right expensive!! .. thank god my work had it on cd.

of course for work related only!

Dangeruss
Reply #6 Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:26 AM
Check out HoverMatch (freeware) designed especialy for this purpose!
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm (near the bottom of the page - scroll down please)

Styl-X Design
Reply #7 Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:58 AM
image> adjustment> variations, works almost

Styl-X Design
Reply #8 Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:58 AM
image> adjustment> variations, works almost

MarkMcQ
Reply #9 Saturday, November 23, 2002 7:05 AM
For doing a full recolour in variying shades of a single colour, I like to convert the image to greyscale (Or use desaturate. Greyscale gives better results though), then back to RGB, and then use the colorize or hue/sat option.

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