colouring cutouts

Bob G

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Mar 1, 2003, 5:16:53 AM3/1/03

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I have a set of motorcycle clothing to re-colour in Photoshop.
I have scanned a picture and I have managed to mask the different coloured
areas, but I don't know how to colour the areas in particular colours. For
instance, a lot of the leather suit is black and these areas have to be
bright orange to a pantone colour. How do I do This?There are five different
colours for parts of the suit. Once they are coloured how do I gather them
together again?
Bobg

Farlo

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Mar 1, 2003, 12:20:22 PM3/1/03

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"Bob G" <bob.g...@btopenworld.com> wrote:

> For
> instance, a lot of the leather suit is black and these areas have to
> be bright orange to a pantone colour. How do I do This?There are five
> different colours for parts of the suit. Once they are coloured how do
> I gather them together again?

Hire someone to do this for you. Changing black regions is not a simple fix
but is doable. You just won't have much to work with.

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Farlo
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Tacit

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Mar 1, 2003, 2:42:39 PM3/1/03

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>I have scanned a picture and I have managed to mask the different coloured
>areas, but I don't know how to colour the areas in particular colours. For
>instance, a lot of the leather suit is black and these areas have to be
>bright orange to a pantone colour. How do I do This?

Changing the color of something to a different color that is a similar
brightness is very, very simple. Select the area you want to change, choose the
color you want to change it to, and Edit->Fill in Color mode.

Changing the color of something to a color that is a different brightness is
much more difficult. Changing something that is white to a very dark color, or
something that is very dark to a light color, is one of the most difficult and
challenging types of color correction you can do, even for a professional who
has a great deal of experience in high-end color correction work.

Making something that's black into a bright color, and doing it in a way that's
realistic and convincing, is extremely hard to do. You may need to use a wide
variety of different techniques--adjusting lightness chanel by channel with the
Curves command, adjusting the lightness in Lab mode, re-creating shadow detail,
and so on. This sort of complex job is generally beyond the scope of a novice
Photoshop user.

My advice to you is to find an experienced Photoshop professional.

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Mar 1, 2003, 3:03:14 PM3/1/03

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It could be fun to learn and become more than a novice user. I think all
experienced users were once a novice. Not too many are born with all the
knowledge.

Tacit

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Mar 1, 2003, 4:43:32 PM3/1/03

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>It could be fun to learn and become more than a novice user. I think all
>experienced users were once a novice. Not too many are born with all the
>knowledge.

That's true, yes. But the way you learn to be an architect is not by designing
a six-block, 500-story office complex! :)

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Mar 1, 2003, 6:40:41 PM3/1/03

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Maybe -- maybe not.

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