Replace color within a selection

In a group of mixed objects, would like to change all instances of color X to color Y, including colors of drop shadows.
"Recolor Artwork" isn't helping.

If you used global colors, then you can use merge swatches in the swatches palette.
Recolor artwork should do what you want, but that depends on if you color x is built the same way. Woudl need more infomation on what you are doing, or post the file if you can, and we can help you get this accomplished.

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Paint over or replace color in a selected area - How?

I was in the mountains taking photos yesterday.
Unfortunately while I was there a rather pale blue sky turned grey.
So I have a nice water fall and ugly white grey sky above it.
I have PSE 9 and bought it for occasions just like this.
Just downloaded a trial version of PSE 11.
What is my best option to convert the sky to blue?
Since I'm a begginer, any steps listed to get this acheived would be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Try starting with the Smart Brush (under the Red Eye Removal tool, looks like a wide paint brush). It's default setting is "Blue Skies". Basically, you use this tool to paint in a region that you want to apply the effect (for non-beginners, it uses the Smart Selection tool to create a mask for an Adjustment Layer). As you paint in the sky, it will attempt to find the boundaries of the sky region automatically and turn it blue.

How do I change color in a selection, not globally?

Hi guys,
My question is how do I change color in a selection and not globally? My company uses Freehand currently and there is an option to find and replace color in a selection instead of the entire document. I need to figure out how to do this in Illustrator as we will be switching over shortly.
Thanks,
Ron

Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork.

Replace Color - selected areas turn gray instead of desired sample color. HELP?!

Hi, I am using Photoshop CS3 and have a question regarding "replace color."
First...here are the steps I enacted prior to trying to use the 'replace color' function:
1. In RGB Mode - - Selected and filled a shape a color.
2. Ran the selected object through Alien Skin/Impact "Chrome" function.
3. Selected 'adjustments/desaturate.' Did this so that I could then go to Adjustments/color balance..... and then change the entire color of the object to a predominantly red chrome looking scheme.
4. After giving the object a 'chrome' appearance, I wanted to go into the 'white' hilite areas of the object and sample them - and then change them to a bright red color....this is where the 'REPLACE COLOR' function comes in.
5. So I use the color sample eye dropper within 'REPLACE COLOR' and select the white areas I want to change to red...as the 'selection color.'
6. Then, I click down in the lower color box (result color) and sample a color that I want to change the white hilite areas to...in this case, red.
7. This is where the problem occurs - - even though I chose a result color of red...the white areas turn to grayscale within my colored object...so just those areas are gray!!! What the heck??!!
So... how can I desaturate a selected object... then recolor it using 'Color Balance'.... and then replace colors and have the replaced colors actually be a color instead of a gray color?
My file is in RGB mode and everything else is in COLOR.... yet I cannot replace areas within this colored graphic with other colors...it just keeps putting gray tones into the object.
HELP??
Thanks.

Hi Curt - - this occurs even if I select a color within the same file... something about desaturating the file and then adding color back into it...I can't get it to replace color after that.

Hey, How do I populate my replace colors color library in illustrator? I tried to replace color on a traced/ vectorized image and when I selected and went to the color library CC said I need to use a valid username. I was already logged into my adobe acco

Hey, How do I populate my replace colors color library in illustrator? I tried to replace color on a traced/ vectorized image and when I selected and went to the color library CC said I need to use a valid username. I was already logged into my adobe account.

Can you please show a screenshot of what exactly you want to replace where?

Is there a way to Find & Replace within a selection?

I looked in the User Guide, but I didn't find any information on how to Find & Replace just within selected text. I can see how to do it for the entire document or do it one instance at a time. Is there a trick I'm missing, or is this a missing feature?

Hey Chuck,
I opened Pages and used its help menu and came up with this. It does not specifically mention anything about choosing just 1 paragraph or text box, but I hope it helps you none the less.
+Finding and Replacing Text+
+You can find every instance of a word or phrase in your document, and optionally change it to something else.+
+Here are ways to find and replace text:+
+Choose Edit > Find > Find, click Simple or Advanced to set up find/replace criteria, and then click a button to conduct find/replace operations.+
+Simple: In the Find field, type the text you want to find, and type any text you want to replace it with in the Replace field.+
+Advanced: In addition to typing Find and Replace text, you can set up additional find/replace criteria.+
+Replace All: Automatically conducts the find/replace operation without your review.+
+Replace: Replaces the current selection with the replacement text.+
+Replace & Find: Replaces the current selection with the replacement text and immediately finds the next occurrence of the Find text.+
+Next or Previous: Finds the next or previous occurrence of the Find text.+
+Use the other commands on the Edit > Find submenu.+
+Find Next or Find Previous: Finds the next or previous occurrence of the current Find text.+
+Use Selection for Find: Finds the next occurrence of the selected text.+
+Jump to Selection: Displays the selected text when it’s not currently in view.+
Adam

CS2 - "Clamp" specified colors (aka Replace Colors)

Hi all,
I have a non-indexed RGB image that is required to have only very specific colors within it. I'm trying to write a script that will look for these specific colors within the image and will clamp any pixel color *not* found in the list to the closest match in the list. I should also mention that we have quite a number of artists using various versions of Photoshop, with the lowest version being CS2. As a result I'm targetting Photoshop CS2.
My first attempt was to cycle through all of the pixels one-by-one, pull the color, find the closest match, and set it again. This was terrifyingly slow to the tune of ~hour or so on a fairly high-res image.
My next approach was to use ScriptListener and use Select->Color Range to select pixels of a particular color and provide some error using the Fuzziness value. This sort-of worked, except when I tried to fill the selection the fill was not a solid color as the selection was feathered. I can't figure out how to set the feathering to 0.0 under CS2 I know I can do the whole Refine Edge on CS3+, but like I said my target is CS2 as we have a few folks still using that version.
I also played around with Magic Wand, and it theory it does exactly what I want - provides a selection with some provided tolerance which I can then fill with a solid color. The problem is I seem to be able to only use the magic wand given a target pixel-coordinate (x,y). Is there a way I can invoke the magic wand given a color instead? That or use Color Range without feathering? Or any other better/recommendd solution that would replace a color +- some tolerance with a specified color?
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It does have that option, but that just selects all pixels with the exact (or rather, really close) color. Instead, I need to select all of the pixels of that color within some margin of error, and then replace all of them with a solid color. Not particularly useful to me, as the purpose is to find all pixels of a specific color within some tolerance, and select them without any feathering.
In CS3 I found that I could refine the selection and set the feathering / anti-aliasing / etc to 0, and then fill the entire selection. That is *exactly* the desired result, but alas no such option exists in CS2. Alternatively, using the magic-wand with continuity disabled also provides the desired selection, but I can't seem to invoke the tool without providing an X/Y coordinate.

In Yosemite Mail, there is an issue where the signatures no longer toggle as in the past. If you change the existing signature, it just adds the new one vs replacing it within the body of the message. Thoughts?

In Yosemite Mail, there is an issue where the signatures no longer toggle as in the past. If you change the existing signature, it just adds the new one vs replacing it within the body of the message. Thoughts?

Hi howe.sc,
When I checked for how signatures in Yosemite work, I found this.
Mail (Yosemite): Include signatures in messages
Delete a signature from a message: Select the signature, then press the Delete key.
Replace a signature in a message: Delete the existing signature, then add a different signature.
That sounds similar to what you are describing.
Take care,
Nubz

Can't replace color in PSE 9

I am trying to replace one color with another in a photo in PSE 9. Following the instructions in the on-line help does not work. Here is what I do.
1) Select the eye dropper and click in the image to set the foreground color to the replacement color.
2) Right click on the brush tool and choose the color replacement tool. Set the options to Mode=Color, Limits=Discontiguous, Tolerance=25%, Anti-alias=On.
3) Left click on the color in the photo that I want to replace.
4) Hold down the left mouse button and drag over the area containing the color I want to replace. Nothing happens when I do this.
In the photos in the Replace Colors in an Image help topic it appears that at some point in the process the cursor should change to include an eye dropper. I assume this is the cursor I should see before I left click to select the color I wish to replace, however, at no time does the cursor ever contain an eye dropper.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks.

How are you trying to save? Works for me.
Edit à Contact Book
Add New
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Click OK and close
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How can I create a black and white image similar to what I see in the "Replace Color" tool?

Hi all, I'm just wondering how I can create a black and white image similar to what I see in the preview window of the "Replace Color" tool. See attached screenshot for clarification -- I need the grass to be black while the soil is white or vice versa. Any tips?

One way is to use Select>Color Range
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(Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color)
Put a new color fill layer below>black
Just invert the layer mask on the top fill layer for the opposite effect.

How to 'remove color' from a selection?

I plan to get PSE (Mac) soon but need to ask a question
before...
Say I have a .jpeg, or .tiff (color image) open.
I then make a selection of a rectangle or some other shape over the image.
Is it possible to 'remove the color' or select gray scale
within the selected shape, so that there is then the
original image with the selection in monochrome
and the rest in the original color?
many thanks

Come back when you're ready and someone can tell you some of the ways to do it. No point in going into that till you have the program in front of you.

REPLACE COLOR only allows graytones for replacement color

Hello,
I am trying to use the REPLACE COLOR command to change a white sky to a blue sky. I am running Photoshop CS on Windows XP system. Photoshop provides two descriptions on how to use the REPLACE COLOR command and I have tried both. Howwever, for either one, when I attempt to set the color that will be used to replace the original color, the color picker always "previews" and uses a graytone rendition, not the tone I actually attempt to set. When I wag the mouse over the entire color picker swatch, the preview alway renders a graytone. If I instead type in a known 6-hex digit color identifier I still get a graytone rendition, not the actual
color.
I am trying to change the color for only a portion of the image, so I'm using the rectangular marquee to selection the portion I want to change.
For completeness, here is a list of steps I'm performing-
1)In the Layers palette, select the layer containing the color you want to replace.
2)Use the rectangular marquee to select only a specific area in the image you wish to change.
3)Choose Image > Adjustments > Replace Color.
4)In the Replace Color dialog box, make sure Selection is selected under the preview window.
4)In the image, click the color you want to change.
5)Double-click the Result swatch and use the Color Picker to select the replacement color and click OK.
Any clues what I'm doing wrong or what I may hav set wrong?
Thanks,
Ron Glos

Replace color will not work for white or black, as there is no color. There was a post about a month ago with similar topic, with some solutions. Sorry can't remember how to get there, try search with this in mind.
edit
try this link
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b55cf6/2

Fireworks 8 Replacing colors

Hi. I am trying to construct a figure using Fireworks 8. I
need to change a picture from blue to black. Using the help
function, I was instructed to "Select the Replace Color tool from
its pop-up menu". And it give a picture of what this icon should
look like. Try as I may, I cannot find the icon. Would someone
please help?

JCUOZ wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to construct a figure using Fireworks 8.
I need to change a
> picture from blue to black. Using the help function, I
was instructed to
> "Select the Replace Color tool from its pop-up menu".
And it give a picture of
> what this icon should look like. Try as I may, I cannot
find the icon. Would
> someone please help?
Press and hold on the red eye removal tool and you'll find it
hidden
underneath.
Linda Rathgeber - Adobe Community Expert
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/members/8.html

Rid pattern on background, replace color?

Hi. Using PS CS4 on XP.
I have a background with a pattern on it (dark brown flowery lines). I wanted to know if there is a good way to get rid of it. I heard I should use replace color. I was trying that out, but part of the pattern is still faint. I was wondering if there is another option or a combination of options I should be doing. Do I need to trace the whole path with the pen tool of the pattern?
I am going to attach an image before I made any changes.
By the way, is Adobe Forums REAL slow for anyone? Every time I go on here, it takes at least 5 minutes to load.
Thanks for any help.

Seems fast enough here...
Is this background interspersed heavily with the rest of an image?
In other words, what are you trying to retain? The texture but not the pattern?
To "rid" an image of a pattern one only need substitute a smooth color, which would more involve isolating the main subject (and any other parts you want to keep) from the background, then filling with a solid color through one of the various means. There are many ways of making and refining selections to isolate subjects from backgrounds.
I guess to answer your question properly, we need to know more about the entire image and your intent.
-Noel

Image Adjustments Replace Color

In CS2 or 3 I was able to select Image > Adjustments > Replace Color (I believe that is what it was called) and it opened a window that allowed me to to select the color that I want to replace and I was able to change the color in that window. I no longer see it in CS5. Was it moved somewhere else?
Thanks.

It should still be there.
Is it greyed out (32 bit image open) or the workspace your using
doesn't show it? (should be a Show All Menu Items at the bottom of the
adjustments menu)
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