Photoshop CS6/CC: How To Change Color of an Object - With Layers (Adobe Photoshop Tutorial)

to change the color of a specific object in Photoshop there's two different ways of doing it the first way is with layers and the second way is to do it with masks but for this video I'm going to show you how to do with layers and I will make another video showing you how to do it with masks I'm still quite new to masks but I do know the basics of it so I will show you how to do it that way as well personally I like to do it with layers because I feel like you have more control of the layer and pretty much changing the color it just makes it a lot easier for me and I guess it'll make it easier for you as well masks dissolve more of a advanced feature in my opinion and layers are a lot easier to get your head around once you've got your image imported by going to file an open or just dragging into Photoshop you'll notice that it says background and when it says background it will have a little lock next to it we want to do is you want to either double click on this little icon or just drag it down to the bottom of this little bin icon the reason why you want to do this is because when it says background and it has a lock it stops you from doing anything it pretty much doesn't let you edit it so if you double click on it and now you will see that it's changed to layer 0 this means that it is now a layer and I can do anything I want with this layer to start changing the color of the objects which in this case for me is the color of the bird I will want to go and pick a tool which will let me select the color most people will prefer the quick select tool which is here if you don't see it selected then you right click and it will be quick selection tool the reason why most people choose this one is because you can quickly go around the image and this will let the computer pretty much guess the bits that you want him to select meaning that you don't have to manually do it yourself since the image that I am working on isn't too advanced or too difficult to - like I'm gonna go with the quick select tool but if you want to be very accurate with it I would suggest the pen tool which is right here and this one is a lot more accurate because you select every single point another tool that is similar to the pen tool is this one up here and is that one right there this one is like the pen tool but it will just keep on creating lines until you get back to the first point with the quick select tool there's two things you need to know about it and that is you have plus a minus plus will select the area and minus will deselect it so as you can see here this bit we want to deselect and we don't want that bit selected with this bit here we want to go to the plus and select that bit but if it does that then you want to keep on doing it until you happy with it so I think that's okay and I will do a little bit of the feathers here but sometimes it will go wrong and you just have to keep on trying until you eventually are happy with it once you've selected the color you want to change and you are happy with it you want to go to this icon down here and click on it this will create you a new layer okay so now that I've selected the bits I want to change the color of and I'm happy with the selection I will go to the left side of the screen why all the tools are and go to the bucket tool if you don't see the book it's old and right click and it should be in here what the bucket tool does is it just fills in this selected area if you go down to here and pick a color I'm gonna go with a blue try and make yours with more of a darker color if you go with a bright color it will look a bit unrealistic so the darker the more realistic pretty much that's the main key we are aiming to make the image look like it's actually that color so for me as you can see I've gone slightly further down to a darker blue press ok and now all you do is just left-click and that will pretty much fill in this area the next thing you want to do is you want to go to this rectangle here and then just click anywhere on the screen and what this does is that it will deselect the selection you made as you can see from the image right now it's not looking very good so what we want to do is want to go to here where you have all the effects for the layers and go down to the one that says hue what that does is that it will make the color actually blend in and match the image now if you're looking for a more brighter color or effect then go with color down here this will usually make it a lot more brighter it all depends on your image but hue and color is the best two options to use as you can see since we use the quick select tool we still have some bits that still have the original color and what we want to do is want to go to the brush tool which is here if it's not there right click and it will be this one right here now all you do is go to color get the same color used before it should already be in here but if it's not then try and find again and all you do is just go around the bits that the quick selection tool didn't pick up one great thing about this effect called hue is that it doesn't affect black so you can see this color here I could paint as much as I like but it's not gonna affect it that much keep going around it until you selected all the color now there's one more problem with this image right now and that is the eye so if we go to the eraser tool we hold in alt and use the scroll wheel to go to zoom in we will make a smaller size for the razor tool and then click on make sure you are on the layer that you created the color and delete the bits that you don't actually need but anyway does be my video on how to change the color of an object if you like see part two which is the masks then click a link in the description or on the screen it is pretty similar but it's done in a different way because of the masks if this video was helpful let's see if we can reach 50 likes now be great leave a comment if you fall it was a good video or useful [Music]

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Length: 7min 20sec (440 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 26 2017