Photoshop CS2 colour replacement help please

Stripe · 16 Feb 2006 at 11:03

hi,

probably not the most specialised place to ask but i was just wondering if someone could help me with photoshop, please.

Basically, I have an image of a person with black hair with a streak of blonde in it. I want to use the colour replacement tool to make the blonde streak black as well. however, whenever i try this, it just turns to a shade of grey and i can't get it any darker, even if i use successive colour replacements.

i've read the relevant part of the manual and a book on photoshop but can't seem to get anything to work. replacing with any colour apart from black doesn't seem a problem either.

any help would be much appreciated. thanks.

edit: typo

[OZ] · 16 Feb 2006 at 11:33

Probablt best to post the image

gord · 16 Feb 2006 at 12:29

because its blonde their is an inherant white hue in it which is why that tool wont give you a proper black as far as i can tell..

have you tried the hue colour adjustments?

have you tried airbrushing it?

have you tried using the plaster tool.. cant remember the proper name but it looks like a plaster?

Messiah Khan · 16 Feb 2006 at 12:45

gord said:
have you tried using the plaster tool.. cant remember the proper name but it looks like a plaster?

The heal tool?

Try playing around with the brightness/contrats settings, and use a normal brush with a dark colour set to either colour, colour burn or darken.

laiman · 16 Feb 2006 at 22:04

depending on quality of photo id be tempted just to clone some black hair, only really works on low detail though

sunlitsix · 16 Feb 2006 at 22:17

id say the heal tool will do the job