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- [Voiceover] Hey YouTube, this is graphic designer
Roberto Blake, and in today's Photoshop CC tutorial,
I'm going to show you how to replace color.
You can do this outside of Photoshop CC and any modern
version of Photoshop.
But I'm gonna start with showing you the traditional
way to replace color in an image using the
Color Replace Tool first, and then I'll show you how to
do it non-destructively.
So, let's go ahead and get started.
First thing you're going to do is go to your menu.
Go to Image, Adjustments, Replace Color.
Once you've done that, you're going to actually use
the Eyedropper Tool that it gives you to select the color
you want to replace.
Now, when you have multiple variance of a color in an image
that you want to replace, like we do on our race car here,
you'll want to hold down the Shift key, and you'll want
to select the portions that you want.
And you can use the Alt key to subtract things from
your selection.
So, you could go ahead, and I usually start with subtracting
all the colors I know I'm not going to want first.
Then, I hold Alt, and I click on the colors of the object
that I do want to make our selection for.
Now, in the Navigation panel on the right, you can see
that what we're selecting is showing up in white, similar to
when we use our masking.
And that's actually going to be very important, so you want
to use that as your guide when making your selections here.
Once you've selected what you want, you can use
the Hue slider and Saturation slider to adjust the color
and to replace it to whatever you like, whatever you feel
looks good, and if you don't like what that's coming
out like, you can always go back and make a more
refined selection.
And you can do that.
Now, this will generally work, and this is how you replace
the color on t-shirts and things like that.
But I feel that this method is less precise than the method
that I'm going to show you here in a minute.
It's also a destructive method since we're actually editing
the pixels on the image.
So, I'm gonna show you what I think is a better way
to handle this.
But for general purposes and for something quick, this will
work, and this is the way people have been doing
color replacement in Photoshop for awhile.
But again, I don't like this particular method.
It works well enough, and you can see how that came out.
But I'm gonna show you how to do this non-destructively
by using whatever selection method you like.
In our case, we're going to use the Quick Select Tool.
And then we're going to actually use an Adjustment Layer
so that we can turn this effect off, and so we can change
it and control it the way we want.
So, I'm just gonna make a quick selection here.
You don't need to see me go through and work this whole
thing out.
If I use the Quick Select Tool, now I just go ahead
with my selection and do a Hue and Saturation
adjustment layer.
And then, I affect it here on the sliders.
Now, you can use whatever selection method you want.
You could use the Pen Tool.
You can paint it, what have you.
But once I've made the selection, you can see that
on the Hue and Saturation layer that we've made,
we've got a mask.
And that means that we can also control and refine
the selection any time we want by painting away on the mask.
But we can also go in here with the sliders for Hue,
Saturation, and Lightness, and we can change the color
to whatever we want.
And we can keep doing that.
We can keep doing it to our heart's content, and we still
preserve the details of the original image.
And it's no problem.
And as I said, if the selection isn't perfect, we can always
go back, and we can always paint it in and do whatever
we need to.
So, this is one of the quickest methods for
doing color replacement in Photoshop.
And this is how you would do that non-destructively.
Well, I hope you guys enjoy today's YouTube tutorial.
This was another short one, nothing super elaborate.
Like, subscribe if you like the video, and I guess I'll see
you guys on next week's Photoshop CC tutorial.
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