Saturday Special 7-11-09 Selective Recoloring
Hi everyone, it’s Suzanne here and I am so excited to bring you this Saturday Special. One of my favorite things about digital scrapbooking is being able to manipulate the supplies to do what I want them to do. It gives me so many more options of what I can do with a kit. One of the easiest ways to do this is by changing the colors. Today I am going to show you how you can change the color of an element when the element has more than one color. I used CS3 to create this tutorial but I am told that the process works the same in most programs.
Here’s my page that I started with (using June’s daily download kit):
Here I red star buttons. Now the red buttons work fine, but I want them to be blue. Since the stars have a metal ring to them I can’t just simply go the HUE/SATURATION menu to change the color because it will tint the metal and this is what I would end up with:
So here’s what you do. First select your eye dropper tool and select the color you want to change your element too.
Next click on the black arrows above the color swatches and switch your colors so your new color is now the background color (the back square). Then use the eye dropper to select the color on the element you want to replace. Leave that color as the foreground color. (The one that is on top.)
Make sure you have your element selected and go to IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS> REPLACE COLOR and this window should appear.
Click on the bottom color box and the color picker box will pop up. Now go over to your color swatches and choose the background color. (The color you want the element to be.) And click okay. Now you can adjust the top Fuzziness slider to adjust how much of the color it replaces. You can also adjust the bottom sliders to tweak your color further. Once it is how you want it, click okay.
Now with my example it replaced the red mostly, but in the white parts there are still tints of red that I want to replace.
So I select my eye dropper tool and this time I click in those slightly off white areas. Then go back to IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>REPLACE COLOR and this time all I have to do is slide the saturation slider down to remove the red color. And now I have removed the red tint from the white.
And here is my finished page with my blue buttons. *Note I changed the color of one of the buttons first and then I copied my new blue button.
And here’s what kim did using Anna BV Designs Flower Power and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Denise Beatty Originals Circles of Love- the kit only had a blue button so she recolored it pink:
So here’s your challenge- I want you to pick at least one element and recolor it and then use it in a LO. Post your layout in the gallery and in the forum and let us know which element you recolored. Remember you don’t have to use ScrapMatter products to participate but you ‘ll get an extra point if you use a SM new release (within 7 days of the products release). Everyone that posts a layout in both the forum AND the gallery will receive a point, and then I will pick one more to receive an extra point. Also there’s no double dipping.
Have fun!
