How to I change the colour of an object without loosing it's detail?

Hello all,
I get by for the most part creating the art work for my advertising in photoshop, my finished product always turns out good, but i'm not expert by any means.
Currently, I am in need a yellow real estate sign post.. all the sock images I can find to buy are white. I'm sure there is a way to fix that, but i'm comming up without the required knowledge..
Starting with an image like this:
[IMG]http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b439/just_luc/Firefox%20Uploads/stock-vector-for-sale- sign-vector-1.jpg[/IMG]
(And before anyone says anything yes I realize this is a proof.. I fully intent to buy the image once I determin I'll be able to use it for my needs.)
I tried just using the paint bucket tool in the colour I need:
[IMG]http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b439/just_luc/Firefox%20Uploads/test.jpg[/IMG]
If I spend a little time I can obviously do a better job filling in any missed space, but the image looses all the woodgrain and other details..
Is there a better way to acomplish this?

As always with Photoshop there is more than one way to achieve this.
One method would be to select the woodwork in the signpost (see below) and then promote this selection to a new layer by doing Ctrl (or cmd on a Mac) + J
Then select layer effects (by clicking on the fx button at the bottom of the layers panel.
Then select color overlay
Choose the color that you want
Then play around with the blending mode (you will probably find that Multiply or Color will work best - but have a play).
To select the woodwork you can use a number of methods including the following:
Use the pen tool and then convert the path to a selection
Go to the select menu and select color range
Use quick select
There are other ways (do a search for making selections in Google)
Another method would be to create a blank layer above the layer that has the signpost and then (on that layer) with the brush tool paint over the signpost with the color that you want. If you have Multiply or color selected as the blend mode you will keep all of the texture of the original image.
As I said there are probably at least another 99 ways of doing this - the above are only a couple of suggestions.
I suggest you have a good play and see what happens.
Any clarification - then just post again.
Cheers
John

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