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Software: Ulead PhotoImpact 11 but similar for other versions |
Title: Recoloring Tools |
| Author: Carol (Miniviolet) |
Skill Level: Beginner |
| Terms of Use: You may not re-distribute or post this tutorial as your own. However, what you create with this tutorial is yours to do with as you please. A link back to this tutorial is appreciated but is not required. The tutorial itself along with the images herein are copyrighted to me and all rights are reserved. |
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| Description: This recoloring tutorial has many applications in scrapbooking. We often have the perfect element in our kit, but need to change the color just a little to match our layout. In this example, I will be especially gearing it toward recoloring word art. Most often, word art comes in shades of black and gray so that they can be easily recolored in your software to match your layout. This is very easy to accomplish in PhotoImpact, and there are actually several different ways to do this. I will be covering two of my favorite methods here. |
©Carol (Miniviolet) |
| 1. Open the word art that you need to recolor. Before we begin, duplicate your image and make all changes to the duplicate. We don't want anything to happen to the original! |  |
| 2. For the first example, I want to use two different colors. One for the black, and a different color for the lighter gray wording in the background. Choose the "color replacement pen" in the left hand tool box. |  |
| 3. In the top toolbar choose the orignal color you want to change, and the new color. The easiest way to select the existing color (especially if it is not true black) is the right click on the original color box, select "color on screen", and use the eyedropper to click on the color you are changing. Then in the next box choose the color you want it to become. I am using a shade of blue. I like to put the brush size on the largest to quickly change the color, so I set that to 500. I also set the range of color to 150 to make sure I got all of the black. If you are working with closer color ranges you might need to set this down to a lower number. Make sure your word art is selected. Now, take the brush and paint over the entire selection. Everything that was black will now become blue. |   |
| 4. Now I'm going to follow the exact same steps to turn my gray to a tan color. Since my light blue shade is so close to the gray shade in color, I lowered my color range to "50" so that my blue didn't turn tan also. That's it! Keep reading for another way to manipulate the colors. |
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| 1. Start with your grayscale word art again. This time, click on "photo", "color", "color balance" from the top menu. |  |
| 2. Click on the "Smart" tab in the box that opens. Use the eyedropper that appears to select the color in the box that you want to change. In this case, the black. Then in the bottom color box select the color you want to change to. This will change all the black to the color you select, and all other colors will be changed to a hue based off of that color. In this instance my black changes to the blue I selected, and the lighter gray changes to a lighter blue. |
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| That's it! Two easy methods to recolor your word art, or other elements you may be working on. |
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Questions? email me ©Carol (Miniviolet) 2006 |
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