I think I have cleared out the backdrop from this Fotolia wolf. I attach one of the pictures I am currently working with. I do have Red Ochre's plug-in pack installed, although it appears that I have Version 1 of the Colour Replacer, and there may be a later version. The first thing I always do is hit F1, but I'm finding that the descriptions of what the tools do and how to apply them have a large number of assumptions as to one's level of knowledge in terms of being a digital artist. And who hasn't yet found where everything is. It's all very helpful to someone who has been using PDN for less than a month. If these ideas don't work for you or you get confused, feel free to ask for further help, or if you can share the images you are trying to re-color, perhaps I (or someone else) can give you more specific help. Like-wise, adjusting the colored layer's opacity can help too. You can use the Brightness/Contrast Adjustment, Levels, or Curves to help you improve your image's appearance. Changing your image to shades of gray and then adjusting those shades can make the colors of your colored layer blend less brightly, or blend darker, or blend more vividly. Notes, Gray shades pick up color better and have less color conflictions. (Tip, have a color you like from another image? Screen capture the image and paste it into on it's own canvas, or download/save the image and open it into, then use the 'Color Picker Tool')Ģ) Change the colored layer's blending mode to 'Overlay' or 'Multiply' or play with the other blending modes and see if there's a different mode you like best.ĭon't like how the colors are turning out? Optional steps:ģ) Click back on your image layer and make your image black and white (Menu Bar > Adjustments > Black and White.)Ĥ) If needed, adjust the image's Brightness/Contrast, so that it is not too black or too white. (To know more, try exploring the documentation, if you haven't already.)ġ) Add a layer and fill the layer with any color you want. Try playing with Hue/Saturation, Levels, or Curves, and Brightness/Contrast. The adjustments tab (up in the menu bar) offers ways to change the colors of things. Here are some re-coloring ideas that you might like or find useful. (Pale Golden Blonde might make the cream color.) Edited Novemby Marilynx The only problem is that these colors seem to me to be too brown for a proper rust.

įrom this, it might seem that for the rust and cream, I might want to use a combination of Pale Golden Blonde (229, 200, 168), Strawberry Blonde (165, 137, 70), and Light Auburn (145, 86, 61), Darker accents might be Dark Auburn (83, 61, 53). Īnd this looks like a useful one for dog fur coat colors. This looks like a potentially useful starting point for colors.

I have NO idea how to go about this, because all my experiments with color replacer do not turn the apple blue when it is red. Most of the gray and black needs to go to shades of rust. The other needs to be a cream and rust wolf. I have a picture of a wolf - this is a comp image from Fotolia, which I will purchase if I can get things to work out. However, I have another issue with the color replacer.

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