Selecting areas in this third example is easier with the color range selection tool. Set the hue to +180 to get a more orange hue. Press OK after naming the adjustment layer.Ĭhange the hue to -42 for a green color in the windowpanes. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation. To add to the selection, press Shift and then click-and-drag around the other windowpanes. Instead of the polygonal lasso tool, select the rectangular marquee tool.Ĭlick-and-drag around one of the windowpanes in the image. This one requires a more rectangular shape selection. Let’s try a different selection technique on another image. Notice that the hue is adjusted only for the areas you selected. Press OK and set the hue to -143 for a blue hue. Now, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation. If you’d like to try a different color, go to Edit > Step Backward to undo the most recent hue change. Name the new adjustment layer and press OK.Īdjust the hue to +100 to get a green color.Ĭlick OK to the change the selected areas to green.
Go to Select > Inverse.Īdd a new adjustment layer to the selected pixels by going to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation. Now that you’ve selected the areas you don’t want to adjust the hue of, you need to inverse the selection to select all the red area you want to change. Hold down Option (PC: Alt) and click around that area as well. You also need to remove from the selection the red hood visible through the front windshield. By holding down Shift, you can add to the selection, and by holding down Option (PC: Alt), you can remove from the selection. To remove those areas from the current selection, hold down Option (PC: Alt) and click around the red line in the middle of the photo. There’s still some red area in the photo. Hover over the original point, and a circle over the cursor appears. Move to the next area along the border in a straight line, clicking around the area until the polygonal lasso tool is back to where you started. For this kind of selection, let’s use the polygonal lasso tool.Ĭlick on the edge of the area you want to exclude. To limit what the adjustment effects, you first need to make a selection. You don’t want to adjust the entire photo, since that would change the color inside the car as well. In the image below, the client requested that the car not be red. Selectively adjusting hues is also a handy way to colorize black-and-white photos.īegin by opening a photo with a colored object you want to adjust.
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Try this technique to adjust the colors in a photo for special effects or for professional considerations, such as when a client wants a different color to match a color scheme. In this tutorial, I’ll use three selection techniques - polygonal lasso tool, rectangular marquee tool, and color range selection - and selectively adjust the hue to change the color in parts of the photo. The key is to change the hue only within a certain area of the photo. A better way to change color without losing an object’s details it to adjust its hues. For example, when you use the paintbrush, even at partial opacity, it brushes over some of the photo’s detail. There are many ways to partially color a photo in Photoshop, but some don’t preserve the original image.
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