Matching Color Between 2 Images

Selective Color Matching
Open the image with color you like.
Make sure your Info Palette is visible.
Select the Eyedropper Tool.
Look at the Options Bar, and set the sample size to 5 x 5. This will give you a good average color from a sample size larger than just one individual pixel.
Hold the Shift key, and you'll see that the cursor changes. This signifies that you're ready to lay down a Color Sampler. Find a good spot to sample the color you want, and click there. You may lay down up to 4 Color Samplers in each image.
Look at your Info Palette and you'll see that it has expanded to now include a pane (or panes) that display(s) the color component make-up of the spot (or spots) where you dropped a Color Sampler (or Samplers). In that pane you'll see a tiny little eyedropper icon, right below the "#1". Click and hold for a drop-down menu. Change the read-out to CMYK. This won't change the color-mode of your image, so don't worry about that. It just makes the following steps more intuitive.
Write down the values for C, M, Y, and K.
Open the second image in which you want to match the color to a similar color in the first.
Now, for one of the most important parts of the process:
Make an accurate selection of the areas you want to adjust. Save it as an Alpha Channel (Select---»Save Selection...New Channel) just to be on the safe side, and save your changes to the document.
Using the Eyedropper again, Shift-Click to drop a Color Sampler in the new image, in an area that is similar in brightness as the sampler in Image 1.
Change the readout of this new sampler to CMYK.
With your object still selected, go to "Image---»Adjustments---»Selective Color..."
Choose a color in the drop-down menu that is as close as possible to the color of the area you want to adjust.
Now, while you keep an eye on the Color Sampler pane in the Info Palette, adjust the sliders in the Selective Color dialogue. You'll see the numbers change in the Info Palette. The numbers to the left of the slashes (/) are the "before" readouts, the numbers to the right of the slashes are the "After" readouts.
Play around adjusting these Selective Color sliders until the "After" numbers for the second image Color Sampler match (or get really close to) the C, M, Y and K values you wrote down for the Color Sampler in the first image.
Sometimes you'll need to work the sliders for more than one of the Selective Color drop-down menu colors. I usually start with the drop-down choice of "Neutrals," because it often allows me to do most of the correction there...lots of bang-for-the-buck. Also, you may need to make Selective Color adjustments, hit "OK" and then call the Selective Color dialogue up a secondperhaps even a thirdtime.
Just match the "After" numbers for Image 2 to the Before numbers that you wrote down for Image 1.
There are other methods for doing this, but this is one of the easiest ways.
Keep in mind that the changes you make are destructive (i.e.: not reversible after you save and close the document). Because I trust my abilities, I know what I can get away with, and I'm usually satisfied with the results. If you have any worries about making permanent changes, just duplicate the layer you want to work on so you can go back to the original color if you need to.
When you're finished, you remove the Color Samplers by again selecting the Eyedropper tool and (Shift+Option) [Shift+ALT] clicking (see the scissors cursor?) on the Color Sampler icon (s) in the image window.

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"anyoneSeenMaiTai" <[email protected]> wrote
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> I've generated a simple shadow around my page design in
Photoshop (the
shadow
> blends into the background color via a soft gradient).
I've imported a
small
> section of the shadow into Dreamweaver and placed it in
a special table
cell to
> duplicate the affect in Dw.
>
> This is very simple. I'm using web-safe colors (#336699)
both in Ps and
Dw.
> All artwork was created on my Mac Pro running Leopard
(10.5.2).
>
> When I test my design in Firefox it looks perfect. When
I copy the site
folder
> over to Dw on my Windows XP machine and test in IE it
also looks perfect.
It
> also looks perfect when I open the design up in Dw on
the Windows machine
(in
> the document window).
>
> HOWEVER ... the colors do NOT match in the Dw document
window on my Mac.
Nor
> do they match when I test the page using Safari on my
Mac.
>
> I'm perplexed. I'm somewhat new to Dw, but I've been
using Ps and Gl for
a
> long time. I think I know how to match colors in the
workflow. I recently
> upgraded my Mac to 10.5.2 and I'm wondering if this is a
bug?
>
> One other thing ... the pull-down menus in the Dw color
selection areas
aren't
> always functional. Sometimes the color picking windows
will close leaving
the
> pull-down menus unresponsive. You have to hit the escape
key to exit. If
you
> are very careful you can get the menus to work using the
middle mouse
button
> (I'm using a wireless Mighty Mouse).
>
> Can anyone offer me guidance ... or has anyone else
experienced these
problems
> in Dw? TIA.
>

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Depends, John.
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DaSniper1977 wrote:
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We have been here before…
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Dear all
I have 2 separate programs that use same source image (red01a1.jpg). The first find location of color particles (color location 01.vi) and second find location of particles after threshold color image (particle location 01.vi). Both of them run good.
But when 2 programs were merged into one program (color sorter 01i.vi), that happened error . The error message is “Error -1074395395 occurred at IMAQ Match Color Pattern”. How can I fix it ?
Thanks
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
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Color -particle location.zip ‏86 KB
red01a1.zip ‏86 KB

Hi Xuan
Check it out the attached vi
Sasi.
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(click on the screenshots below for larger views)
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    Use white to add the color or black to subtract the color
    You can press the D key on the keyboard to get the default colors (black and white) in the toolbox
    and press the X key to switch between the two when painting on the layer mask.
Even though the above takes longer you can easily change the color or modify the areas that you want to change the color on.
To change the color you can double click on the color fill icon in the layers panel.
You can also use other layer blend modes besides color such as hue, so you might try some of the others and see what they do.

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