Whomever said that I did that with Adobe ? I went to your house, busted into your car, got some nice green paint, applied it, let it dry, polished it on nice and shiney, took the picture, then used some nail polish remover to wipe it off, all in the span of 20 minutes!
All thick and obvious sarcasm aside, things like this are really easy to do in Adobe--it just takes some patience with the lasso tool.
Use your polyon or magnetic lasso tool to form an outline around the area you want to apply a color change to. You just want to get the overall outline, so don't worry too much about the inner pieces that you don't want blobbed over, as you can go back later with an eraser tool and clear those out if need be.
Once you have an area selected and polygonned off, right click and select "Layer via copy." If you choose "Layer via cut," usually you'll get an ugly outline around the area you cut, and you don't want that. I like using copy because it simply hides the area underneath meaning I can, of course, go back later and make changes if I need to.
Next, making sure you have the layer you want to make a color change to selected, goto Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation. Select "Colorize" and "Preview" (enabled by Default) from the bottom checkbox area. Move the Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity sliders around to change the color of the areas you want to be a different color. If your ultimate goal is simply to grayscale, I might suggest you simply use Adjustments -> Desaturate.
Go back on the copied layer and use your eraser brush tool to clear out any areas you don't want changed. Easy as pie, aye ?
Cheers,
Tim
Last edited by Tim; 06/30/03 07:32 PM.
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