Photoshop - Changing background colour

Xander · 03-26-2007, 08:20 PM

Not in the obvious way of course

I have a photo with a white background, and I need to make it a very dark background... but the photo has a woman with loads of strands of hair and although i can change the colour of most of it with paint bucket/magic wand or something, it's really hard around the hair area.

I thought you could replace colour with adjustments - colour - replace colour or something but it doesn't seem to work.. any tips?

Thanks.

rubah · 03-27-2007, 05:05 AM

the cs3 beta has a neat option that can kinda do what you want, but it's pretty primitive yet.

The ways you'll be best off doing is painstakingly coloring in the bits darker with a soft brush (or burning) or painstakingly selecting the areas and then shrinking then feathering them for the soft look and editing the selected areas.

There isn't a good way yet; that's why there is still some skill involved in graphic design.

atlanteay · 03-27-2007, 11:08 PM

use selective coloring and choose White from the drop down. Then, mess around with the scrolls.

atlanteay spoony bard Location: the ATL	#3 (permalink) use selective coloring and choose White from the drop down. Then, mess around with the scrolls.
03-27-2007, 11:08 PM