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[five]

I need to lighten part of the image up, the white exterior, while keeping the letters the same.

Eventually I will have to recolor the blue letters to green.

http://img14.imgspot...6/hireslogo.jpg

I have started the process of cutting the letters out and I have no worries that it will look fine.

I am just wondering if there is a better way to go about this.

Thanks,
Five

[Stu]

you could probably use the magic wand tool as oppose to cutting it all out

click on the background with the magic wand, then right click>inverse selection.

cut the letters

paste onto a new layer

then it will probably be easier just select the layer you want to change the colour of hit cntrl+U and tick the colourize box and your sorted.

not sure if thats what you mean?

Edited by Stu, 12 August 2005 - 07:08 AM.

[Mooey]

on top of what Stu has just posted, try using the Select option instead of the wand. go to "select" and then "colour range". Gives you more control on what colour you want to select.

[Stu]

on top of what Stu has just posted, try using the Select option instead of the wand. go to "select" and then "colour range". Gives you more control on what colour you want to select.

actually thanks for that mooey, ive never thought of that one before

[five]

I had already done it using the lasso and it did pretty good, I tried using the color range method and the cut out was excellent, but when I apply the paint bucket to the selection, everything turns:

[Mooey]

I had already done it using the lasso and it did pretty good, I tried using the color range method and the cut out was excellent, but when I apply the paint bucket to the selection, everything turns:

Woah dude, dont use the paintbucket

Easy way to recolour a layer is to use the layer stills, or use image - adjustments - hue/saturation. Select colourize.

One last thing, make sure your editing a layer with a transparent background.

Edited by Mooey, 12 August 2005 - 08:36 AM.

[Stu]

like i said before shortcut to the colour adjustments mooey mentioned above is cntrl+U then tick the colourize box and adjut the hue slider to change the colour and play around till its the right colour

[Mooey]

like i said before shortcut to the colour adjustments mooey mentioned above is cntrl+U then tick the colourize box and adjut the hue slider to change the colour and play around till its the right colour

Sorry about that stu, didnt relise you posted about the Hue

[five]

Either way, I am still picking up a lot of extra color even though it is selected. It seems that it is because I had the fuzziness meter maxed out, when I lowered it, I had better color, but the selection wasn't as precise.

Thanks for offering this method mooey, it's something new that I haven't tried before.

[five]

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Which is better?

[funkysoul]

the original is more subtile..