Change colors/parts of premade elements

[eadegraff]

How do I change the color, texture, etc.. of pre-made elements such as flowers, ribbons, backgrounds etc.. for ditigal scrapbooking needs? Is that even possible?

[Diana]

Try this... Click the Foreground color chip to select a color. Press Ctrl-U to get the Hue/Saturation Dialog. In that window, click to put a checkmark in the Colorize box. Now you can adjust the color even more by dragging the Saturation slider and/or the Lightness slider. If you drag the Hue slider, you can even change the color, if you desire.

Hope this does what you need.

Diana

[Wendy]

Hi eadegraff

How successful it is to change the colour of elements very much depends on the actual elements itself ... if you have a complex one with several colours and/or shadows then changing the overall colours using H&S may not work too well.

For example a flower that has green leaves will lose the green when you use H&S

For the more complex ones you get a better result by selecting one colour from the element (using the magic wand) and then use H&S. That means that only the area you selected changes colour.

As far as changing the texture goes ... well if it already has a texture then all you can do is try putting another texture on top of it. It may work but you just have to experiment. :)

Wendy

[Bayla]

As Wendy wrote, how you recolour depends from item to item. Take a look at THIS TUTORIAL (http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/blog/2007/3/23/photoshop-friday-2007-12-re-coloring.html) by Jessica Sprague which shows (with screenshots) four different ways to recolour elements depending on what they are.

Bayla

[eadegraff]

Thanks everyone!