How to put color on paper overlays that has no color

[Jana]

I bought some black and white overlays, meaning they are intended for you to create your paper the colors you wish.
Do I use the hue/saturation method?

[Deborah]

Jana
If I'm understanding you correctly, I've used the hue/sat, method.
But some times you can Ctrl click on the layer, and when you see the dancing ants, you can add color that way. Go to the create a adjustment layer and bring down the menu. Use Solid Color, or Hue/Sat, or even add a pattern from there.
Hope this helps and I explain it for you to understand.

[veejayr]

Hi Jana -

Usually, overlays are used to add texture or a design to your paper. So to get started, try this:

Start with an existing paper of any color or style OR add a new layer and fill it with any color you wish.

Then drag a textured overlay above the paper layer. Change the blend mode of the overlay layer to "overlay" and then play with it's opacity setting.

To experiment further, try changing the blend mode of the overlay to some of the other options and see what you get.

Then, to have more fun, try putting the paper layer on TOP of the overlay layer, again playing with blend mode and the opacity - you'll probably get completely different results.

If the overlay is more of a frame, or corner, or flourish they'll generally look better on top of the paper layer and if you decide you want one of these to be a contrasting, or different color, you can control click on it's thumbnail in the layers palette and then fill with the fore/background color of your choice.

Hope this helps!

[Diana]

You can also try this. Pick a foreground color by clicking on the foreground color chip.

Then press Ctr-U to get the Hue/Saturation adjustment diaglog. Click to put a checkmark in the Colorize box. Then use the sliders to get the shade you want.

Diana

[Artcie]

:):) Yes, I do it just like Diana. Just goes to show how many ways you can accomplish the same thing. Thanks for the other ideas!

[Jana]

I just saw some of the papers actually are jpg so they are not overlays :(
but they still nice though !
But yeah I will try this for my overlays
Thanks guys

[veejayr]

I just saw some of the papers actually are jpg so they are not overlays :( but they still nice though ! But yeah I will try this for my overlays Thanks guys

Jana - you should still be able to use all the techniques described here - you may have to resize the jpg first.