I'm using a feature photo in an article and I want to match parts of the image to the two main colours in my destination image. Usually I would add a colour adjustment layer and trial/error my way there using my eye to guide the sliders, but I'm wondering if there's a better way to go about this. Something tells me the eye-dropper should be playing a part,
View 1 RepliesI'm possibly showing my ignorance here but this is what I'm trying to do. I want to change the colour balance of a part
View 2 Replies View RelatedIm working on a series of images from a photoshoot.
I am having massive problems with getting the background of each image to match with one another. Each image seems to have a slightly different shade background, so basically they all look inconsistent together.
Is there anything i could do which would easily match the background from the different images together?
Using curves doesnt really help and when i do get it right (slightly similar), skin tones are then off.
The photos are done in a studio and evenly lit, the backgrounds are pale blue!
I am currently working on a series of images for a calendar. All the photographs are portraits and were shot against the same backdrop.
I am working in Photoshop 7 and having scanned the images and given them a clean they all have different casts. Is there some way of matching the colour of one image to another, rather than attempting to do it by sight and botching it up?
I'm changing car colours using Photoshop Quick Mask, Inverse and Layers functions. Works well but how do I match the new selected colour's hue/saturation/brightness exactly to a specific car paint colour I want?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to do a funny xmas card for work. I am cutting out faces of members of staff and putting them onto different bodies, can someone please tell me how to match the skin colour so the pic looks as real as possible
View 3 Replies View RelatedI make a 30-page jokey thing where I put my mates (and their girlfriends - those with a good sense of humour that is !) faces onto silly photos for a bit of seasonal cheer. Now, it looks OK, but obviously, sometimes the flesh tone isnt quite right. I know I can use the eye dropper, but it looks so obvious. Is there a way of matching tones throughout ? It doesnt matter that much obviously, for what its for, but it would be nice to make em look even better for next year !
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using CAD 2009. I've inserted a Bitmap image (a company logo) and I want to insert text with the same colour as the logo.
Can I sample the colour in the logo and apply it to the text? NB - I really don't want to go through all the colour options in CAD to find the nearest match.
I want to do something like the Microsoft Paint 'Pick Color' option.
What I want to do is to have an adjustment layer that is a reversed, black and white image. I initially thought to merge B&W and reverse adjustment layers, but read that an adjustment layer may not be the target of a merge. Is the way to accomplish this to fiddle with the B&W adjustment layer sliders somehow?
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I like how the black and white displayed image of a given color channel looks, how can I export that channel into a layer?
I use a lot of adjustment layers and they're often applied to the previous layer. Is there a keyboard shortcut to automatically "Use pervious layer as clipping mask" without going through the dialogue box or manually applying in the layers palette(Option-click between layers)?
View 5 Replies View RelatedJust upgraded to LR5 and noticed that the color has gone from my white balance and other sliders within the develop module. Ie. the channels or groves of the slider bars are all white, and lack the guideline color gradients that used to be useful. How do I get the color back?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm familiar with adjustment layers and clipping masks, but am wondering if there's a way to have an adjustment layer affect a group of layers below it, but not all of them. (Usually you have a choice of having it affect either JUST the layer beneath it (through a clipping mask), or ALL of the layers beneath it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSome of the options in Layer>New Adjustment Layer are gray.
I don't know why I can't click them. I need to use Color Balance.
Using Photoshop CS.
When you open an image with adjustment layers, what determines what is selected, the background or the adjustment layer? It seems sometimes it's one or the other, and I don't know the logic. Personally I would prefer that the image always opens with the background layer selected.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm new to Paint shop. Is it possible to clip an adjustment layer or image to just the layer below it like in Photoshop? Or maybe Paint shop calls it something else?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a photo of two guys as the background, and two more layers on top to put a ZZ Top beard on each of them. I cut out the beard from a Billy Gibbons photo, and trimmed it up as good as I can. In the Billy picture he is wearing a black shirt, so behind the reddish beard are traces of black.
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The issue:The first guy in the background is also wearing a black shirt, so the beard blends perfectly on him. However, the second guy is wearing a turquoise shirt, and as a result, the beard does not blend well whatsoever, and the edges are terrible. I need a method to color change (or whatever) so that the black traces on the beard become turquoise traces, and thus blend with his shirt.Â
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I don't want to solve this with some kind of feathering or blur, because I want the edges of the red beard to be sharp, like they look on the first guy. I think I need to solve this with a color changing technique, but now sure how to do it in Paint.net.
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Although I'm relatively new with Paint.net, years ago I became quite proficient with PaintShop Pro doing web applications. As I recall, there was a function of the color changer there, which would not only change from Color 1 to Color 2, but would preserve the differences in the color shades. So far example, if you set the color changer to change a blue shade to a red shade, and set the tolerance up some, not only would it include several blue shades from the source, but it produce various shades of red in the destination. So the result was not just a solid spot of red, but rather a nicely shaded red,
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I have looked at the Paint.net color changer, and although I see how the tolerance level can dictate various shades of input to include, it seems to map all of those included pixels to just plain red, one exact color. I'm thinking surely it will do what I want, but for the life of me, I can't find it in the tool or in my searches.
I'm working in Photoshop CS5. I have several layers, and only want to make an adjustment to the top layer. I don't have an clip icon on the bottom of the layers pallete either, what should I do...
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a dozen of drawings each with a layer named LOGIC. I have modified layer properties (default color, line style, etc.) on one of them and I want to replicate these properties to the others.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm creating a layout in CMYK and have a brigthness/contrast layer above my artwork. Once I merge the layers together (save it as TIFF) the contrast is not the same and I cant get the same color/contrast effect when I do it in flattened image. Any ideas how to solve this problem?I was thinking of taking screenshots of the "pre-merged" layout and putting it together but its a rather large file...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI worked on a phot and tried to save it as a jpg among other formats. The file that saves is missing one of the adjustment layers?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn CS3, my workhorse editor until recently, when I double clicked an adjustment layer it opened up the initial settings window. There I was able to tab browse through the variables, make whatever adjustments I wanted, hit enter, and live happily ever after. I haven't been able to figure out how do do this in CS6, which has the 'properties' panel for making changes to adjustment layer settings.
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The question: Can CS6 be set to behave like CS3 in this respect?
Boosting the vibrance using a vibrance adjustment layers is the same thing as just increasing saturation?
View 3 Replies View RelatedUsing CS6, try to open a curves adjustment layer...the way I have for years...levels opens. Will not correct. Have to close the app and reopen. Impossible to find on internet. What's up?
View 21 Replies View Related1) I'm not clear about when I should use an ordinary "new layer" and when an "adjustment layer"; are there instances when either will work and others when only one will; and
2) I think I've come across something funny about using an opacity setting: Say I've used one of the brush tools and, then, toned things down by lowering the opacity. I then go on to save the photo and quit PE. Well, when I open that photo again, the opacity comes already set as it was before. I find this confusing, especially if I go on to do something else involving opacity. Somehow it makes more sense to me to always begin fresh at "100%".
I'm almost finished with a project, but like always at the end something has to go wrong.
So I'm trying to make this sort of portal (based on a videogame).
I got the portal like I want it to be, but when I link the Color Balance effect to the Portal layer (so that it only effects that layer) the color just disappears, leaving me with a white portal.
But it needs to be done, otherwise it effects my other layers to and turn everything red.
When I link layers this happens:
But if I don't, it of course turns everything red:
Just upgraded CS6 to CC and really enjoy a lot of the changes but there seems to be a bug with the adjustment layer curves (not regular curves).
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If I make a change to the curve using modification point and then toggle "undo", the preview of the image will toggle on and off with the change but the modification point does not reset. This point stays in the original position even if the curves are not in effect and will only reset when another layer is selected before returning back to these curves.
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One must also manually reset the point if you wanted to revert back to the original (instead of undo) because if you place another modification point on the curve it will revert back to the change you made earlier.
Many Photoshop users consider the Curves panel to be Photoshop's most important feature. For many Curves users, the Layer panel introduced in CS4 does not offer the speed, the instinctive use, nor the superior results of the older Curves Layer panel.
The Curves dialog includes all the features that long-time users rely on. Some of these features have not been included in the Adjustment Layer version. They should all be available in the Layers panel, too.
how to make an adjustment layer and make the adjustments when the dialog/window pops up. Then I click OK and the layer appears in the Layers Pallet. So now lets say I want to refine the adjustment I just OKed. Is there a way to get the adjustment dialog to open up again? Or do I have to delete the first adjustment layer and start over on that adjustment?
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View 13 Replies View Relatedabout the appearance of adjustment layer thumbnails or icons. At times when I create an adjustment layer the thumbnail comes in as I expect ie a levels adjustment layer shows the scale icon. But at other times the layer will show a circle that is half black and half white like the add adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette.
I can?t figure out why this happens or what triggers it to change. It has no impact on the functioning of the layers it is just annoying and I like to see the correct thumbnails so I can tell what kind of layer it is at a glance.