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Easily Change the Color of an object in Photoshop, no selections required


This tutorial is an old favorite of mine. I have been using this technique for a long time. In the past, I used to make selections to change the color of parts of a photograph. Since I discovered this tip, I never make selections to change colors any more. This is so simple and quick to do, it’s one of those “I wish I had known about this before” techniques as you remorse all the wasted time in the past.


I used to do this technique with the Hue/Saturation adjustment, but it’s much better and faster to do it with an adjustment layer. You will also notice that you can use the built in mask in the Adjustment layer to save a lot of time and get better results. Most of the time, you don’t have to do any masking, but I used an example that does require masking so that you will know how to do it when the need arises, because it will!

 

You can fins the image I used for the tutorial on . The number of the image is #73372537 (You can follow along without having to buy the image) For instructions on using Adobe stock, check it out here. 

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24 responses to “Easily Change the Color of an object in Photoshop, no selections required”

  1. Hi Colin, love this tutorial and how simply you explain things. I have a question though. When clicking on the orange, as you said it will give you a selected range within that colour. But what if i wanted to change the flower to a totally different colour which is not within that orange/yellow range. Purple for example. How would i go about that. I’m using ps cs3 and not overly experienced. Any help you could give would be great. Thank-you.

  2. Not bad! But I send my photo in this company, guys from FixThePhoto provides professional portrait photo retouching. They reshape face in photos, edit eye color, whiten teeth , remove braces in pictures, and fix frizzy hair in Photoshop.

  3. Thanks for the help with changing colors. My only question is that once I finished the edit how do you finish up and save the photo in the same format it was originally?

  4. Thank you so much for this tip. It makes everything simple 🙂 I am fairly new with photoshop and although I knew this could be done and have used the Hue/saturation before I couldn’t figure out how to do it for only one part of the image cleanly. This is exactly what I was looking for.

  5. Wow. I love this tips. It’s so handy. Especially for photos with less complex similar colors. I love how this tutorial also takes care of how to fix those unwanted areas affected (in this case, the girls’ face etc). Keep up the great jobs.

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