In this tutorial you'll learn a few
different ways of how to easily change
the color of an object in your photos.
You might want to change the color of an
outfit in one photo or have fun changing
your hair color in another. I'll teach
you how to use the Selection tool, the
Materials palette and the Color Changer
tool. Before we get started, if you're
watching this video on YouTube you'll
find a link in the description below
that will take you to our tutorial page
on the Discovery Center. Here you can
download a written copy of this tutorial
to follow along. Let's get started.
In this first example, I want to show you
the easiest way to change the color of
an object with a distinct color. I have
an image opened up in PaintShop Pro of
some children with different colored
socks on. I want to change the color of
the socks on one of the children. First
of all, make sure that the Materials
palette is open by clicking on Palettes
then Materials. Now go to the far left
and select the Color Changer tool from
the toolbar. Before we start changing the
color of the socks, go to the top and
notice that you can adjust the tolerance
and the edge softness. In the tolerance
box you can set a value from 0 to 200 to
specify how closely the replacement
color should match the color you are
replacing. So at lower tolerance settings
only pixels with very similar colors are
replaced. At higher settings, more pixels
are replaced. The edge softness
determines how pixels that border the
recolored pixels are affected so we want
to keep this relatively low. I'm going to
set my tolerance level down to 20. Now
I'll go over to the Materials palette
and select a color I want to change the
socks to, then I can click on the object
that I want to change colors. You might
have to click a few times until the
image color is completely changed and
it's really helpful to zoom up so you
can click the exact color you want to
replace.
Now if I go back to my Materials palette
I can change colors again and again
until I'm completely happy with the
result.
Now we're going to try a more advanced
way of replacing colors. In some cases
the technique we use previously will be
fine if you have a distinct color that
you want to change. But more often than
not, you'll want to use this next
technique to keep the color changer from
spilling over into other areas of the
photo where you don't want to replace
the color. In this example we're going to
use one of the Selection tools first to
select an object so that when you use
the color changer it only works on the
selected area. I've got this image of a
woman with a bright red skirt on but I
want to change just the skirt color. The
first thing I'll do is head over to the
standard toolbar and for this image I'm
going to choose the Smart Selection
brush then I'm going to set the feather
value to 2.
Now I'll click to brush the skirt and
the selection expands automatically to
the edges based on the information that
is sampled by the brush. So you can see
the skirt is now completely selected. Now
I can go to the left toolbar and select
the Color Changer tool. Once again I'll
choose the color I want from the
Materials palette and click around my
image until the red skirt color is
completely replaced by my new color.
You'll notice that there will be no
color spilling outside of the selection
which makes it much easier to replace
colors accurately. Again I can go back to
the Materials palette and select new
colors until I've chosen one that I like
best. It's that easy to replace the color
of objects in your photos with PaintShop
Pro and you can have fun
experimenting with new colors and
designs in your photos. If you're
watching this video on YouTube, you'll
find a link in the description below
that will take you to our tutorial page
on the Discovery Center. Here you can
download a written copy of this tutorial
to follow along and find other helpful
tutorials for PaintShop Pro.