Change The Color of an Object in Photoshop | PTH #7

hey everybody welcome back to another episode of the photoshop training hour i am your host jesus ramirez and in today's episode i'm going to show you how to change the color of anything in photoshop we're going to go through several examples that will show you different techniques on changing color and how to get better results this episode of the photoshop training hour is sponsored by our good friends at msi so make sure that you check out the msi products in the links in the description and we're gonna jump right into it we have a lot to cover feel free to leave any questions in the comments and also if i show anything that you enjoy make sure that you click on that thumbs up button so let me switch my screen here to the left and as you can see this is photoshop and we have a yellow couch so i'm gonna show you seven different techniques several different techniques on how you can change the color of anything in photoshop so if you wanted to change the color of an object like a couch obviously you would use a tool like the hue and saturation adjustment layer this tool works great for most color changes and there's a little tweak that i like doing on using this tool that a lot of people don't do and i feel that it gives you much more control of the resulting color and you'll see what i mean by that in a moment the first step is just to make a selection of the item that you want to adjust in this case we want to change the color of the couch one of the easiest ways of selecting the couch is by using the quick selection tool oh and by the way i forgot to ask let me know if my audio is good we were having issues in the previous stream so hopefully this is much better so just let me know in the chat if the audio is good for you but anyway so what i'm going to do now is simply click and drag using the quick selection tool to select the couch a couple things to notice is that even though i'm not in that layer i'm able to just select the couch sometimes i feel that you get better results if you actually select the layer that contains the object that you're in notice that sample all layers was not selected and it was still doing a good job so i can also enable it if i if i want to if i were on the layer above and also enhance edge so click and drag and make sure that you select the object whose color you want to change if you make a mistake like i did here on the left hand side you can always hold the alt key on windows thus the option key on the mac and click and drag to subtract you can also use the left and right bracket keys on the keyboard those are right next to the letter p in north american keyboards to increase and decrease your brush size so i'm just making a larger brush so i can just hold alt on windows option on the mac and drag down to deselect cool and um audio is good but very very low so i'm gonna get the mic microphone closer to me and let me know if that works for you um let me uh well people are saying the audio is good and other people are saying it's slow so um it looks like the audio is good anyway so i'm going to click and drag now on the area here to deselect from her shirt and i'm not gonna spend too much time fine tuning the selection we can always come back and do that but the point is that once you have your main subject selected you can just delete the layer mask from this hue and saturation adjustment layer and then just add it to click on the layer mask icon to make that selection into the layer mask for that hue and saturation adjustment layer and you probably have seen this before you can shift the hue by clicking and dragging on this slider so what do i mean by shifting the hue well if you open up the color picker you'll notice that every color that you select it doesn't really matter which one has three components the hue saturation and brightness in this case it's using the lightness i'm not going to go into too much detail on what the differences are between hsb and hsl but if you really want to know what the differences are i have a youtube video that talks all about that um i guess i can link to it in the description but if you um search for saturation versus vibrance i go into detail on the difference between those two color modes and this is the the video here it's called photoshop saturation versus vibrance the best for color enhancement and the thumbnail is is this one right here which is better so you can search for that and i guess i can just copy the the link and paste it in the chat if you want to check that out and you can see the differences between those two but it it um it doesn't matter for the purposes of this video so what i'm going to do now is continue what i was trying to describe so we have hue saturation and brightness when you adjust the hue slider what you're really doing is essentially dragging this slider up and down so the saturation will not change and the brightness will not change just the hue or the color and then when you adjust the saturation slider it's like increasing it is just like increasing the saturation so basically moving this left to right so going to the left no saturation going to the right is at its most saturated and then lightness i think is the easiest one to understand the color is either bright or dark so those are the three components and that's what you're adjusting here you just are adjusting the color the current hue in shifting the hue to a different location in some cases this works just fine and you don't need to worry about it other times you may need to colorize those pixels so let me see if i can find a good example in this image here so when i check colorize what happens is that you're mapping the hue that you select onto those pixels so you're no longer shifting hues you're just telling photoshop make the hue whatever you select so when i click on colorize whatever color i pick from this slider you can see blue in this case i will map that hue onto the pixels below and with this unchecked i'm shifting the hue so you may encounter areas that are not pure of that color you might see in some areas that there's a little bit of other different colors in there that's because you're not really colorizing you're shifting the hues so it's up to you to decide what you do in your project but there is a difference let me see if there's any questions before we move on cool so what we're going to do now is continue working on this image now when you make an adjustment to the hue you can get good results but depending on the color that you go for you may not because um let me see let's go for let me let's go for like a light blue color so if we go for a light blue color and when i adjust lightness watch what happens the image gets very flat or if i want to make it darker the image still gets flat there's not much contrast when you make that adjustment so this is why i prefer adding a second adjustment layer to this equation to get better results and i usually just disregard this lightness slider because in some cases it just doesn't give me the results that i want see if i wanted this darker blue the image just looks flat and it also looks flat if i drag to the right so how do i fix that well let's start by setting up our layers i'm going to create a new group and i'm just going to call this group color change and i'm going to click and drag up and drop drop the mask onto that group so now i'm going to use one layer mask to control multiple adjustment layers the reason that i'm going to do that is so that if i want to make a change to my mask i only do it once and not two or more times depending on how many adjustment layers i have then i can click and drag this hue and saturation slider into that color change group and what i'm going to do now is create a levels adjustment layer you can also use curves or any other brightness adjustment layer that you like i just think curves is easier to use especially for something like this and i'm going to drag that levels adjustment layer below the human saturation adjustment layer and what i'm going to do now is adjust the center gamma slider so notice that when i go to the right i can make that color darker but i maintain that contrast notice that there is a lot of contrast in the image and i don't get that flat look as i do when i reduce the lightness see that see the difference when i reduce the lightness the image looks really really flat but if but by using this levels adjustment layer i can now control the contrast of that image and before with the human saturation adjustment layer i only had one slider to control the brightness of that new color the lightness slider but in in this case with the levels adjustment layer i have five i have the three on top here that looks kind of funky but i can still control them and the two at the bottom so i have total control of how the image looks or how the color looks by using a levels adjustment layer and if i wanted to brighten up the color i can do that as well try to maintain contrast and obviously i can keep fine-tuning it all day until i get the result that i want and i can always go back into the hue and saturation adjustment layer and shift the hue or apply the colorization whatever works best for your image and like i said before since i have one layer mask then i can control that really really easily for example i mean i made a mistake here so i can come in with the brush tool and paint with white again i'm using the bracket keys to resize my brush and i can come in here and paint that in and obviously i'm not spending too much time getting it right but i think that you get the idea so this is in my opinion one of the most efficient ways of changing colors in photoshop because it gives you the best results as opposed to just using one single adjustment layer and then running into the problem of possibly getting flatter colors without having the appropriate contrast in your image obviously if you just want to make a simple color change where you just you know maybe just switch the hue a little bit over to a different color like maybe that salmon color there that's totally fine you don't need to create another levels adjustment layer but if you start adjusting the lightness then i would definitely consider adding that second adjustment layer and placing the layer mask into the one group so what i'm going to do now is move on into the next example cool what about turning object's color to black or white well if you wanted to make this a white couch is basically the same thing and actually i would use the levels adjustment layer for that so what i would do in that case is just bring the saturation down to negative 100 so the couch is now desaturated and with the levels adjustment layer i would just control it control the gamma see that i can come to the left and it all depends on the detail that you have so the more detail you have in the image the more you're going to be able to adjust the photo if you're working with a jpeg that's been compressed and there's not a lot of details in the highlights and shadows this may be a little more difficult but it's the same thing if i wanted to make this black then i would go the other way something like that and also you have to remember where the object that you have is in your scene if you notice this image is very very bright there's a lot a bright light source coming from the right it looks like it could be a window and it also looks like this light may even be on at least that's what it looks like to my eye the point is is that we have a bright light source coming from the right so this probably wouldn't be jet black you know it might be more closer to like a dark gray or something like that just because there's so much light in the scene so you have to keep that in mind but the point is that by using this hue and saturation adjustment layer you can just bring the saturation down to zero and with the levels adjustment layer just go right to make it darker or black and then go left to make it white totally up to you and the effect that you want to create so that's how i would do the um black and white color swaps um cool so the question is what did i do so that only the color of the sofa change i've created a layer masks uh in case you missed it these are the steps just in case you missed them i'm gonna go through them super quickly so with a quick with the quick selection tool i just selected the objects that i wanted to affect with my color change if you make a mistake you can hold alt on windows option on the mac to subtract from that selection once you have your selection active you can create a human saturation adjustment layer and adjust the hue then i went on to explain that if you're going to make a color change where you adjust the lightness i would recommend adding a second layer to that because it if you adjust lightness you might flatten out the object in this case the couch looks very flat if i either brighten it or darken it so the way to fix that is by creating a group adding that layer mask that you created to the group so you can just click and drag it into it like so drag the human saturation adjustment layer into the group and then create a levels adjustment layer or it could be a curves adjustment layer whatever you prefer and put that below the human saturation adjustment layer inside of that group and then with the gamma slider you can just make it darker or brighter whatever you want and you have five sliders where you can control the contrast of the image so that the image doesn't look flat and it still has the color adjustment that you applied is it important which adjustment layer is up so if you notice here with this adjustment if i drag the levels adjustment layer above the hue and saturation adjustment layer yeah it's it's not really a big change and that is mainly because um the colors that i'm using sometimes i find that having the levels adjustment layer above gives me different results so i don't like using it in this case it looks like it gives me the same result but i do prefer having it on the bottom just because that's how it also makes more sense in my mind that i'm adjusting the the brightness and then on top of that i'm adding hue and saturation but sometimes it doesn't make sense cool it looks like the audio is down again i have it up as high as i can go let me try increasing it through here and let me know if that makes it better for you guys i can't really tell so let me know if this is better cool so somebody wrote can't you just use a color gradient for all that well you can use the color gradient but the downside is that it's more work right so let me let me show you what i mean by that um so a color gradient i'm just gonna create one using the same layer mask and go into the gradient map and the question is can you use a gradient map well for a black and white result i guess you can it gives you a great result but if i wanted to make it a different color i think that it requires more work um just because you have to set up you know what the darkest color would be like a dark um dark green and then maybe the you know the color that i'm really targeting would be a green that looks like that and then the highlight might be a different shade of green something like that so i just think that it requires more work to do all of this you can certainly use it if you want but in my opinion it requires more work something that you might be thinking well is well you can use that and then change the blending mode to color and let the luminosity from the layer at the bottom affect the gradient map and that works too but if you want to change the brightness of the color that you change you still have to use another adjustment layer whether it's levels or curves but i mean you can certainly you know make make a color change using this technique with a gradient map but i think that it's it's much more time consuming to make adjustments right so like if i wanted to make this red you know instead of green well now i have to change this one to green or to red sorry and then this one to like a lighter red something like that and then this one just like a really dark red or something but the point is that you know just requires a little more fine tuning and a little more work so i wouldn't do it that way but feel free if you get the results that you want why not cool yep um yes like some people in the chat are saying gradient maps just requires more work awesome so now let me show you another technique um sometimes you may be working with an image and let me open up another image sometimes you may be working on an image that you know requires some specific targeting right so maybe your job is to make the red on this shirt a different color the color really doesn't matter how would you target that well you can start by creating a hue and saturation adjustment layer and then you can either click on this icon and then click on the red areas or without clicking on the red icon you i'm sorry while click let me rephrase that click on that finger icon and then when you click notice that you adjust the saturation of that color that you selected right but if you want to change the color hold ctrl on windows command on the mac and click on that red area and now you can change it so i'm changing the red and watch what happens here i didn't really explain this earlier but we're going to take a look at the gradient here the gradient on top represents the original hues the graining at the bottom represents how those hues are being affected by the shift right so between these two solid lines the colors that are under the hues that are in here are going to be turned into whatever i set it here under hue and then with this triangular icon in this line icon everything in there will be a smooth transition between adjusted pixels and unadjusted pixels same thing is true from the other side and you can click and drag these sliders to [Music] control how or which pixels are adjusted so in this case i think i did a pretty good job in targeting those threads but unfortunately i'm targeting everything else right so what do i need to do well i need to create a layer mask so i'll delete this mask and then hide the layer with the lasso tool or any tool that you want really it doesn't matter actually you know what not the lasso tool i'll just use the quick selection tool again just make a selection around the shirt or the area that you want to adjust so i'm just going to make a very quick selection and again for the sake of time this will not be perfect but i think that you'll get the idea and if you ever want to check what you have selected and what is not selected in something like this it's somewhat difficult to see because of the nature of the shirt what you can do is simply press the q key on the keyboard to enter the quick mask mode anything that is in red is deselected and anything that is in this normal color is selected so i'm noticing that i'm missing a lot of the shirt down here and her shoulder as well and also i noticed that i accidentally selected some of the background here on the bottom right so i can hold alt on windows option on the mac and subtract from that side and i probably would get better results if i'm on that layer i just feel that i get better results when i'm actually on the layer that i'm selecting cool so now that i have the shirt selected all i need to do is create a layer mask on this layer when i create a layer mask on this layer and with that selection active you see that i'm only affecting those pixels so now i can just continue adjusting the reds because that's what this tool does when you click on a color this tool selects one of these drop-downs one of the options in the drop-downs and adjusts that drop-down so in this case i adjusted the reds and i can continue making adjustments so what happens if you want to for example create or target the pixels that i adjusted right so like right now there's no i mean there's a mask that i created around the shirt but there's no actual mask on the pixels that i'm targeting so what if i want to add another layer that only targets the pixels that i adjusted with the hue and saturation adjustment layer it's not too difficult to do but it's not intuitive you kind of have to do a hack for photoshop to target those pixels and the way that you would do that is by going into the background layer duplicating it ctrl j on windows command j on the mac here's the tip for you you can move layers up and down the layer stack by holding the ctrl key on windows that's the command key on the mac and using the left and right bracket keys so i can just move the layer down up down up just by using those bracket keys and if you hold the shift key and use the bracket keys you'll move the layer to the top of the layer stack or to the bottom of the layer stack depending on which bracket key you tap on the bracket keys are to the right of the letter p and north american keyboards but anyway so now that i have the original image on top and actually let me change this to a like a very different color like green or something yeah that'll work so now that i have that layer on top this background copy all i need to do is change the blending mode to difference and the difference blending mode um looks at both layers the top layer and the layer on the bottom or the layers on the bottom and if the pixels are different you're gonna see the image change to a different color if the pixels are the same they'll turn black right so in this case the only pixels that i'm seeing are the pixels that have changed from the original so what i can do now is use this keyboard shortcut ctrl alt and the control alt shift let me try that again because it's not working uh control alt and the number two that's command option and the number two on a mac so once again control on windows alt and the number two and command option and number two on the mac to load the bright pixels on screen as a selection you can see that i have a selection then i can just delete this because i don't need it anymore and what i can do now is create any layer that i want it really doesn't matter so what i'll do is i'll just create a group and i'll apply the mask to the group so anything that i put into that group will affect only the pixels that were affected by the human saturation adjustment layer so i can put in i don't know a levels adjustment layer in there and make adjustments if i need to i can even put an actual layer with pixels like maybe like a pattern so i can put you know i don't know let's see what like this pattern here can put that pattern in there see that and it's only showing in the areas that were affected by the human saturation adjustment layer and i can even adjust the masks with the mask selected i can go into image adjustment levels and you know make an adjustment to that mask see that just so that it so it shows the pixels more you can do all kinds of stuff the point is that if you ever want to adjust the pixels that were selected or adjusted rather by any adjustment layer it doesn't really matter which one in this case the hue and saturation adjustment layer just duplicate the layer put it above everything else change the blending mode to difference and you'll be able to see exactly what pixels were adjusted then by using that keyboard shortcut control alt and the number two you will load those pixels as a selection and you can apply that selection to anything that you want in this case i used a group but i could have easily applied that to any other adjustment layer um like a curves adjustment layer and then adjust the curves inside of that selection so that's one hack if you will that you can use to determine what pixels were adjusted and then just make a selection out of those pixels cool so let me see if i have any questions yes the video will be up as soon as i'm done recording it so as soon as the broadcast is done it'll be up so you can watch the video we have mike watching from the uk hey mike how's it going and yes lou the video will be saved how long have we since when have i been using photoshop um 2001 i think 2002 or something like that so you know 20 years um question how and why those i don't understand your question david um how and why does duplicating the layers okay so i don't know if this is what you mean but why does me duplicating the layer affect the image well when i duplicate the layer um i change the blending mode to difference and that's how it affects the layer i'm not sure if that was your question okay so one of the questions says well what about colorizing an image that is in grayscale well i mean [Music] there's new tools in photoshop to do that so i think i have a photo here i think i have a black and white photo let me see i think i have a black and white photo of a baby or maybe it's under a kid i don't know black and white i i thought i had a photo here of a baby but i guess not um that was in black and white let me just quickly look through my images here and if not i'll just make a fake oh here we go this this this vintage photo this baby so [Music] how do we colorize a photo that is in in black and white well if you want to colorize a photo that is in black and white and by the way i'm i'm cropping the image just so we don't have to deal with all the other extra stuff normally i wouldn't do this but i'm going to delete the crop pixels usually you don't want to do that but for the sake of this tutorial i i will of this stream um but anyway so how do we colorize that well if you're in photoshop 2021 um what you can do is just select your layer go into filters neural filters and the new neural filters will colorize this image automatically you can go into the beta filters here oh looks like i haven't even enabled colorize so let me just download it really quick i oh something i thought i had it enabled that's weird let me cancel this and try again filter neural filters there must have been some sort of update or something because i had been using it and now it tells me that i need to download it again let me see i'm not sure if it's not if it's not downloading it because of where because i'm streaming i'm not really sure what the issue is but usually when you download it there's a button that you just click and it just colorizes the image for you using ai um i don't know if i want to spend time travel troubleshooting this right now that i'm live on the stream but you know usually you should be able to just download it and and it works but anyway i have a video on my youtube channel you can look it up i think i use a different photo but it's it's like a one click solution if you don't have that or you're in an older version of photoshop or it's not working like in this case what you can do is create new layers there's a lot of techniques the easiest one is by you know selecting a color like maybe i want him to be wearing a blue jacket or suit and i can just paint you know change the blending mode to color and i can just go in here and colorize it so it's kind of like you know paint by numbers almost so you know you just color that in and you do the same thing for the rest of the image obviously that will take you some time what i like doing is using that ai feature and um just fixing the mistakes as much faster i'm sorry that it wasn't working but like i said i have a video on it on my youtube channel cool um there's a question about effects get oh um i'm looking at a question here so you're saying that the effects get stronger whenever you duplicate an adjustment layer well it all depends on what you're doing what blending mode you have with that adjustment layer it so just so that i don't confuse people i i'm reading a question and the person is asking why does the color adjustment get more intense when you duplicate the layer well whenever you duplicate a layer that layer may have certain properties that affect the layers below so in this case it's affecting the layer because i'm shifting the hue i'm not really sure what you're asking in the questions david but whatever your adjustment layer is it has properties it may have a blending mode it may have opacity it may have a hue adjustment like i do in this case and when you duplicate it you're stacking those adjustments on top of each other so that's why they change the layer i'm not really sure exactly what adjustment you have that's making that change will this work with changing eye colors um yeah of course um so let me see if i have any photo of an eye here or maybe face i guess i'm just going to put man and see if i have a person's face here um [Music] give me one second i'm just trying to see if i have somebody's like a close-up of somebody's face that we can use so i guess maybe her face might be close enough so yeah you can use that technique for anything right so you can just make a selection out of out of someone's eye in this case her eye like so and then just subtract from the bottom here um one thing that you can do is press the q key again and then with the brush tool paint with black and that will subtract just like a layer mask so i'm just subtracting here and when i press q again notice that the selection now is only affecting the areas that i painted on or the areas that were the original color not the areas that were red the q key or you can click on this icon down here that's the quick mask mode q key anyway so with the hue and saturation adjustment layer you can obviously change eye color and i would also recommend the same thing if you're doing an eye color adjustment i would just right away create a group put that in here and then with the levels adjustment layer also control the other aspects of the eye so that you get a better result and just make sure that it's not too uh saturation saturated one of the mistakes that i see the most often with um eye color adjustments is that the saturation is way too high so make sure that your saturation is not that high bring it low to a natural level and then you know make your adjustment accordingly cool well the question is how does how do you select a definite color to changes hue i'm not sure what your interpretation is of definite color but i think i know what you mean so let me go back to the couch so the i'm assuming that you mean the color that is not the shadow and not the highlight and just the definite color well unfortunately you know like you really don't know what the definite color is you can probably say well this area here on the couch is not in the shadows and it's not in the bright highlights here so maybe this is like you know like the definite color um if you wanted to select just that color it might be a little difficult um because well let me rephrase it it wouldn't be that difficult if you just wanted to select that particular color you can go into something like the magic wand tool and just click on there and it would select only the color that you selected in this case i'm using a sample size of 5x5 average with a tolerance of 13. what this means is that wherever i click on photoshop will look at a basically like a 5x5 square five by five pixel square it averages those colors together to get a result and then photoshop makes a selection of those colors and colors that are somewhat similar to them by tolerance of 13. if i just wanted to select exactly those colors i can just bring all this all the way down to zero and when i click i just select those specific colors um so i think that that's probably what you meant i'm not really sure oh and then the question was to change his hue well the same thing you would select uh like in this case i would uncheck contiguous and then just click on that color and then i can go into hue and saturation and then change the hue but you know you're not getting the highlights you're not getting the shadows you're not getting anything else so i'm not really sure why you wouldn't want to get those but i that's how i understood your question so i apologize if that was not the actual question cool before we go any further i would like to mention our sponsors msi thank you so much msi for sponsoring this video i just want to quickly mention a couple products the msi creator z16 which is the laptop that i'm currently using is a fantastic laptop for creators it's got a lot of fantastic features including a fast processor a strong geforce rtx 3060 video card which is fantastic for graphics video editing and things like that it has a fantastic screen with a 16 by 10 aspect ratio so you get a little more room here at the bottom when you're working in applications like photoshop or if you're video editing you can get more of the timeline i'm also using the aegis ti 5 to stream this stream you can this is the laptop or excuse me desktop that i have here below me on my bottom right again 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maybe this green right and why can't we take that green and just apply that green onto the couch like why wouldn't it look the same well if you select this green and if i start painting on a new layer let me just make a larger selection here and i'm using the shift and bracket keys to adjust the hardness of the brush so it's not so soft so if i take that green why can't i just paint on it in the couch well you can right but then it's really not blending so how can we blend it well if you click on this drop down and select the color option that will apply the hue in the saturation of that current layer but the luminosity of the layer below so this obviously doesn't look like that so why why can't we just paint on it well the thing is is kind of like i was mentioning it earlier the object here at the bottom has highlights and it has shadows that's what get it that's what gives the shape to the couch if it was just one flat color it would be super easy to paint you know you would just literally paint over the couch with that color and there you go you're done but unfortunately or fortunately i should say the couch has highlights and shadows which give its shape so if you wanted to get this color close to the couch you would have to you know play around a little bit to get that color and you would have to make a decision what part of the couch or what area in this couch should i try to match to get that color because if you try to match the shadows that probably wouldn't work if you were to make the shadows this green that couch wouldn't look realistic if you were to make the highlight here on the right this screen that also probably wouldn't be realistic as you can see there's a strong light source and it's really making this yellow bright very very very low saturation it wouldn't be if this screen if this couch was this green it wouldn't have that particular shade it'll be much brighter i guess what i'm trying to say is to think about objects in your image as three-dimensional objects with shadows and highlights in other words you're basically looking at something that looks like this let me just um make this black and white and i guess i can call it multiply and reverse it and maybe scale it up so basically that's what you're looking at right it's not just the color that you want you also have to think about the highlights and shadows so all right now that you are thinking well that's great how do i get that color into my couch well you have to decide which area of this couch you want to match to that green let's say that we want to match this area here well now that i have the hue and saturation i'm basically going to do what i did earlier which is going to the levels adjustment or it could be curves up to you and you can just make an adjustment to try to match the green here in in the area that we decided was going to be the color that the yellow that we're going to try to turn into this green and once you make an adjustment here and match it then the rest of the image should match or i don't want to say it should match it will it will it will more likely match and if you need to at that point you can come in here and maybe adjust the shadows and highlights to get a better result but you know that all depends on the image and and what's inside the image so i know that could be a little difficult to understand but the point is is that um when you are working with a three-dimensional object with highlights and shadows it's very difficult for you to say well i want that green on that couch you first have to determine what part of that couch you're going to match and then obviously still keep the highlights and shadows cool um i think we we covered that uh already um nawaz and i'm sorry if i mispronounced your name so the question is what is the colorize feature in in the human saturation adjustment layer like i said before basically when you're adjusting the human saturation you're shifting the hue look at the two gradients here the gradient on top represents the colors in the image so the the the hue and when you are at zero in the hue slider these two gradients match right but when you start shifting the hue you're like moving the color wheel you're moving the hue and those colors so now whatever was you see how the couch is yellow right here in the gradient yellow watch when i adjust the hue if i adjust the hue and put the blue underneath the yellow here notice the couch is now blue because i'm shifting the hue so when when it's at zero they're matching perfectly but then you adjust the heel slider so you're adjusting the color wheel you're moving the color wheel so that the hue is no longer the original hue now it's whatever it is that you adjusted to adjust it on that on this slider so this is a visual representation of what's going on so that's what hue does if you check colorize then you're basically telling photoshop we're not going to shift the hues we're just going to take the saturation and the brightness let me rephrase that we're going to take the hue and just make it whatever we make it on this slider so when i pick blue here notice now that the entire image is blue before not the entire image was blue just the areas that were originally yellow because we were shifting hues colorize just maps the color that you select from the hue slider onto the entire image or whatever is visible on your adjustment layer so if you want green just click on green if you want you know blue click on blue or orange or whatever it is that you want and then adjust the saturation and then adjust the lightness so i hope that that clears up your question cool um yeah so we have about five minutes to go so let me know if you have any other comments or questions in the chat i think that we went a little fast today so i cover everything that i wanted to cover so i'm just gonna um answer any questions that you have now if they come up if not then i'll be saying goodbye and i'll be recording a tutorial today it should be out by monday again the photoshop training hour will now be on wednesday so i hope that that works out better for you if they used to be on friday now we're gonna do them wednesday cool um [Music] so shibam is asking about skin tones i don't have images ready for that shibam so maybe i'll consider making a full episode on skin tones coming up but i do have skin tone tutorials on my youtube channel if you want to check them out but if you have any questions about color matching or color swapping let me know i guess um since we are talking about color matching color swapping um if you wanted to do something like this in lightroom you can um but i don't think i have the images ready let me see lightroom let me open up lightroom and then we'll we'll do something in lightroom give me one second while i find the right image for this this is lightroom and we have this guy on the skateboard and if you wanted to change the color of something in lightroom what you can do is use the brush tool and you can just start painting on the areas that you want to adjust right and then you can just come here and adjust the hue notice this very similar to the hue slider in photoshop right here see that and then obviously you can zoom in and start making more detail adjustments you can just come in here and paint you can open this up and you can see different options we have the auto mask option if you uncheck that you just paint normally see that's how i'm just painting normally and if you enable um auto mask then you want you can stay within the line see how i'm not painting the sky because that center x whatever i click on photoshop will just find colors similar to whatever's on that x and if there's a edge then photoshop will not paint over the edge see that so this is how you can stay within the lines if i were to disable auto mask and continue painting then i will go over the line so i'll disable auto mask and then i'll continue painting and notice that this time i am going over the line see that so auto mask helps you stay within the lines when you're painting in lightroom but anyway so you can just come in here and paint whatever you want in this case i'm painting this shirt and i'm not going to take the time to paint the entire shirt but when you're done you can just adjust this hue slider and obviously you can adjust the saturation and other different colors or you can come into this colorize feature enable that and you can cut and you can apply this colorizing effect totally up to you but you can also bring the saturation down and then make the appropriate adjustments here in the colorize feature so this is how you can do color changes or color swaps in lightroom cool all right everybody well thank you so much for joining me today it's been an awesome stream it's already been one hour i gotta let you guys go but i look forward to seeing you here again in the photoshop training hour next week and also uh seeing you guys in the usual tutorials once again thank you to our sponsors at msi i'm pointing at him as i know you can't see the logo thank you to msi for sponsoring today's videos uh today's stream and also look in the description for the links to the msi products that i described earlier the laptop monitor and desktop everybody thank you so much for joining me it's been a pleasure i'll see you guys again very very soon thanks so much have a wonderful day bye

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Published: Wed Aug 11 2021