Comments on: Color Replacement Tool

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« Kritter Kondo « Kritters That Twitter — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:32:20 +0000

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By: Metal Roofing Ontario

Metal Roofing Ontario — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:16:21 +0000

Love the tutorial, just wanted to answer some questions.

To get an exact match you will need to use both color and luminosity.

Make sure to check your brush values (where you select different brushes) for

Hardness: how much pressure is applied to the stroke
Spacing: how for apart the “paint” or color is applied

Also check your tolerance value to allow for detail to come through as you are doing the color change, this setting along side the Hardness value really makes a difference if you are shading or completely painting over the original photo.

I usually set my tolerance value for colour to 100%, but back it way off to 3-5% when I switch to luminosity. With a balance of these settings I was able to get the desired effect I have been looking for.

By: Martin @ mjc.design.works

Martin @ mjc.design.works — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:13:58 +0000

Was hoping to use this tool to help a client visualize/choose wall/trim colors she selected from paint chip cards. My test photo included a section of wall, baseboard trim, ceiling and window trim. I cross referenced her color choices with my book of Pantone Solid Colors which I could exactly select from my CS3 color swatch table. For my test image, the foreground color l selected looked exactly like the desired color from my Pantone book, but when I used the Color Replacement Tool (mode = color) on the window trim, the trim ended up MUCH lighter than the foreground color. When I repainted using mode = luminosity, the trim did darken up, but I lost all the shadow detail and the trim went flat. Not good at all. Am I missing something? Hope so. But if this is how the tool is supposed to work, it’s completely useless – unless that is, you simply want to change to “some other color” and don’t need to be specific. I see many other readers commented similarly above. Hopefully somebody will stumble across this thread and be able to shed some light on this topic.

By: Khurrum

Khurrum — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:44:38 +0000

Thank you SwalerD!

By: SwalerD

SwalerD — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:33:24 +0000

Don’t know how many of you will actually get this reply but here goes;
1. The colour replacement tool in CS4 is the 3rd option in the BRUSH flyout.
2. The mode dropdown menu on the main toolbar has 4 settings. The first is HUE-this will change only the type of colour(e.g. red, green, orange, yellow, etc.)it will therefore only apply the colour you selected and it will inherit the saturation and luminosity values from the original colours you are changing from. The second is SATURATION- this will change only the AMOUNT of colour and not the colour itself, effectively just applying more or less of the colour you are changing and not the colour you have selected as you may expect as it will inherit the hue and luminance from the original colour. Third is COLOUR- this will change BOTH hue and saturation to the colour you have selected and inherit the luminosity from the original colour. Ideally this is the one you will generally be using as you don’t often want to change the luminance values if you are trying to keep the lightness or darkness of the image intact. The last setting, LUMINOSITY will take only the lightness values from your selected colour and leave the hue and sat values intact. You would generally only use this setting with a greyscale colour selected as luminosity is only measured in greyscale. As an example you could use this to brighten up a very dark red by selecting a light grey from your palette and using the luminosity setting on the object you wanted to brighten. It works with colours too but it’s harder to guage how bright/dark you will make the object.
Essentially the colour replace tool is a faster but less precise way of using adjustment layers and selections.
3. This one’s for Adrienne Change the setting to luminosity to get the black you desire, I’m guessing you have it set to colour from the sound of your result.

‘Shoppy New Year all

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:58:42 +0000

I too would love to know how to get the exact colour I picked onto an object to see what it will look like. No one has answered us yet. Please answer, I need colours from my front verandah. Thank you.

By: Simran Preet Singh

Simran Preet Singh — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:20:27 +0000

Hi,
I am also unable to find color replacement tool. Kindly help me to find.

Thanks

By: Oggie22

Oggie22 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:21:31 +0000

Thanks, this helped since I was trying to find this tool on Photoshop but I wasn’t sure if it existed or where to find it

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:39:55 +0000

Same as lolftw, I was trying to change white/gray to black, and instead got an odd shade of gray…

By: Lolftw

Lolftw — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:45:41 +0000

Uhm i used it and i got grey instead of black… What happened?