Problem with replacing colour in posterised image

Hello,
I am looking for help with a problem I am havng in trying to create a Warhol type poster image
I have scanned in a B & W image as a tiff file(epson v750 pro).
I have then opened the image in CS4.
then used the poster edge filter.
I have then have to clone large areas to clean it up (remove speckels to clean the image to get large areas to white).
I want to then replace the white area (already cleaned to get it to white) with yelow for example. I have  change the mode from greyscale to RGB to allow me to add colours.
I can select the colour replace tool and select my colour(Colour picker tool, yellow).
But the image is not taking the colour. Nothing is being painted on the image.
I have tried so many times. some times I am getting the replacing colour on only about half of the image (going left to right). It still leaves
I thought thi smight have had something to do with the cloning action. but the half of the image that takes the colour has large parts of it cloned to white.
It is not possible to clone the image before using the poster filter as there is no true white in it.
I am under a bit of pressure to have this completed by Friday for a Birthday party.
Any help greatly Appreciated.
Many Thanks
k.

You didn't really say how many colors you needed to make it. There are a couple of ways to do this, some are destructive and others are non-destructive.
I assume the shades of gray are quite distinct. The more contrast between the shades the easier it is to select the shades.
First option is destructive - Select all of one shade, then hit shift-backspace both keys on right side of keyboard. This will bring up the fill dialog box. here you can select a color and click ok then the selected areas will have that color.
Second way non-destructive. Create a new layer and fill it with the color that you want, createanother layer and fill that one and so on untill you have all the colors that you need.
Now select the layer the image is on and create your first selection of one of the shades. Click on the layer that has the color that you want. Next click on the icon at the bottom of the layer panel that looks like a circle inside a square. You selection should now disappear and a new icon on the layer of that color.
Repat for each color.
If the colors are blocking your imsge which odds are they will be, click on the eye icon on the color layer to temporarally make it not visible. And repeat for any layer blocking your view. Clicking the where the eye was will make it visible again.
The second way may seam more difficult, but once you have the selections done for each color layer, it is a simple process to change the color at any time or remove that layer all together or better yet click the eye. The point is once the hard work is done should you change your mind, it is extremely simple to change latter on. As long as you save your file to include layers you can change this any time later on. Both tiff and psd allow you to save layers.
An additional option: if your image as a texture or other details that you want to keep, change the blend mode on that colors layer from normal to color or hue. You might even want to try out some of the other blend modes and see how they effect your image. Doing this step to an image with details will make it more beleiveable. In fact option two and this step is the way to go if there are details in the image as with out blending, or reducing the opacity of the color layers, it would look like a color by number.

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