in this short photoshop tutorial i'll share with you how to change background color
easily in photoshop using two methods
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here how easy it is for us to change the color of the background by just sliding on the hue slider
so let me delete this and let's start from scratch this is our original backdrop it's blue the first
way we'll do this is by using the hue saturation adjustment layer there are two ways to get to the
hue saturation adjustment layer first of all we can just click on this and it brings it up
or we come down here then hue saturation it does the same thing this is a solid color backdrop
and we don't unfortunately we don't have the same color on our model so we can just go ahead without
doing a selection when you come here you see master click on it and it shows you the various
solid colors luckily we are using blues and there is blue here so just click on the blues and let's
slide on the hue and as easy as that we are able to change the color to any color
that we want let's say we want it somewhere here we keep it like that now you have the options of
working on the saturation or the lightness so for the saturation you see that you want it deeper
or lighter something like this and then for the lightness that you want it darker or brighter so
basically this is how you do it with this particular method now what if you are not
fortunate enough and you have some of the colors in the model's dress so that takes us to the
other way of doing this same one but then using a selection so let's delete this and to select your
subject you select this quick selection tool and then over here we see select subject so just click
on it unfortunately photoshop does a very good job of selecting your subject but if you realize that
it's not well selected you can refine your selection by using the option key and then
adding or subtracting your selection alternatively you can go to select and mask which brings you to
this menu and you can tweak some of these values to fit what you want to do once you're done
you select output to selection over here and click ok now this has refined our selection for
us so let's now do our hue saturation again and this time you see we have a layer mask
so don't get confused yet now the layer mask is for our selection so if we come here and we start
moving this see it affects only our selection it's restricted to only what we have selected which is
our subject so if we change any color here that's the effect we get on the model so how do we move
this effect from our subject to the backdrop since the backdrop is our main interest right
it's easy just make sure the layer mask is selected then you go to image adjustments and
invert and just like that the selection has been inverted to our backdrop so everything we do
with our hue saturation affects only the backdrop i hope you are not confused yet so when we select
a huge saturation here this comes back so we can always change the color so just like we did in the
previous one just that this particular one gives you a restricted area to work with so that if your
model has any of the colors of the backdrop in her dress those colors won't be affected
now that we are satisfied with this let's move to the second method
with that also we need to select our subject pick a quick selection to select subjects the same
thing you can refine it and do other so you click on select and mask and then make your changes here
and then don't forget to output to selection okay now once we are here
we go to adjustment layer and then solid color so once this pops up select any color you want and
that will fill in our selection but we want this color to affect the backdrop instead of our
selection so just click okay just choose any color tool and then click okay we'll get back to that so
make sure you select your layer mask and then you go to image adjustments and then invert once again
so you see it has inverted the selection so our effect now is on the backdrop so if you want to
change the color just double tap on that and then just like that you can select any color you want
see any color you want and
that will take over your image with this if you have a textured backdrop and you want to maintain
the shadows and all that all you have to do is with the blend mode you come to multiply or
you go to color so by doing this you're able
to maintain the texture and the shadows on the original backdrop check out these other
videos and let me know in the comment section if this has been helpful to you
i hope this has been informative for you and i'd like to thank you for watching