Hue and saturation are unaffected. In this photo below, an orange balloon at the top seems ready to split from the group and fly off on its own adventure into the sky:.
One way to make the balloon stand out even more from the others might be to reduce the saturation of some of the other balloons below it. I don't want to change the actual color of the balloons, just the intensity of them. To do that, I'll change my blend mode option in the Options Bar to Saturation :.
If I wanted to completely desaturate the balloons, removing their color entirely, I'd set my Foreground color to either black, white or any shade of gray in between. But since I want a more subtle effect, I'll just sample one of the less-saturated colors in the image.
Then, I'll click on a color. I'll choose a less-saturated yellow. The color itself makes no difference since the Saturation blend mode won't change any of the original colors.
It will only affect the saturation:. With a less-saturated color now set as my Foreground color and my blend mode set to Saturation, I'll paint over any balloons that need their saturation level reduced, adjusting my brush size with the left and right bracket keys on the keyboard and changing the Tolerance value in the Options Bar as needed.
Here, we see the difference in saturation as I paint over one of the other orange balloons. The top part of the balloon where I've painted shows the reduced saturation. The bottom part where I haven't painted yet still shows the original saturation:. I'll continue painting over any other balloons that need their saturation reduced. Here's the finished result:. Unfortunately, there's one situation where the Color Replacement Tool tends to fail miserably, and that's when there's a big difference in brightness between the original color in the image and the color you want to replace it with.
Let's say I wanted to replace the orange in that one balloon we've been focusing on with a dark purple color from one of the other balloons. From everything we've seen so far, it should be simple enough. First, I'll set the colors in the image back to what they were originally by going up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choosing the Revert command.
I'll set my blend mode in the Options Bar back to Color , the default setting. Then, I'll paint over the orange balloon to change its color to dark purple. Here's the result:. It's definitely purple, but it doesn't quite look like the other purple balloons, does it? The problem is that it's much lighter than the other purple balloons, and that's because the original color of the balloon was much lighter than the dark purple color I sampled. The Color blend mode had no effect on the brightness.
In fact, the only blend mode that does change the brightness is Luminosity , so let's try that one. I'll change my blend mode in the Options Bar to Luminosity:. I'll undo my steps to return the balloon back to its original orange color.
Then, with my blend mode set to Luminosity this time, I'll try replacing the orange with dark purple:. I think it's safe to say that things did not go well. The Luminosity blend mode definitely made the balloon darker, but it's still orange, and now most of the texture detail is gone. It barely looks like a balloon at all at this point, and this is the problem we face with the Color Replacement Tool.
But if there's too much of a difference in brightness values between the original and the new color, you'll probably want to try something else. Directly to the right of the blend mode option in the Options Bar is a set of three small icons. Each of these icons represents a different sampling option for the Color Replacement Tool, and they work exactly the same here as they do for Photoshop's Background Eraser Tool.
From left to right, we have Continuous the default setting , Once and Background Swatch. Simply click on the icons to switch between them as needed:. These sampling options control how Photoshop samples colors in the image as you move the crosshair over them, or if it samples them at all.
With Continuous selected left icon , Photoshop keeps looking for new colors to replace as you drag the Color Replacement Tool around.
Any new color the crosshair passes over becomes the new color to replace. This is the setting you'll use most often and works best when there's a lot of variation in the color of the object. With Once selected middle icon , Photoshop will only sample the color you initially click on regardless of how many other colors you drag over as long as you keep your mouse button held down.
This option works best if you're replacing a large area of solid color. You can also try the Once option if you find that Continuous is causing the Color Replacement Tool to bleed into other nearby areas and the Tolerance option doesn't seem to help. Finally, you won't use it very often, but the Background Swatch sampling option right icon will replace whatever color is currently set as your Background color.
This option may prove useful if neither of the other two sampling options is working for you. Click on the Background color swatch in the Tools panel and select a color from the Color Picker that matches, as close as possible, the color in the image you want to replace. Try adjusting the Tolerance value if the color you chose wasn't quite close enough. Another option that works exactly the same with the Color Replacement Tool as it does with the Background Eraser is Limits , which controls where Photoshop can look for colors to replace.
The three choices are Contiguous , Discontiguous and Find Edges. The first two Contiguous and Discontiguous are the ones you'll use the most:. Contiguous is the default setting, and it means that the Color Replacement Tool can only change pixels that are in the same area that the crosshair in the center of the cursor is touching.
It won't affect pixels that match the sampled color but are blocked from the crosshair by an area of different color, not unless you physically move the crosshair into the separate area. The opposite of this is Discontiguous , which allows the Color Replacement Tool to replace the color of any pixels that match the sampled color and fall within the boundaries of the cursor, whether those pixels are in the same area as the crosshair or not. The third option, Find Edges , is similar to Contiguous in that it can only change the color of pixels that are in the same area as the crosshair.
But it's more precise than Contiguous and better at detecting edges. The final option for the Color Replacement Tool is Anti-alias , which is selected by default. Keep this option turned on to smooth out the edges around the areas the Color Replacement Tool is affecting:.
And there we have it! That's how to easily change the color of objects in your images using the Color Replacement Tool in Photoshop! Check out our Photo Retouching section for more Photoshop image editing tutorials!
The Color Replacement Tool's cursor is made up of a simple circle with a crosshair in the middle. Black is the default Foreground color, but it's probably not the color you'll want to use. Photoshop samples the blue color and replaces all blue pixels within the circle with green.
By moving the crosshair outside of the balloon, Photoshop starts replacing other colors with green. The blue along the edge of the balloon has been successfully changed to green. The Mode option allows us to change the blend mode for the Color Replacement Tool. Reducing the color saturation of one of the balloons by painting over it in Saturation mode. The orange balloon floating above the others now stands out even more thanks to its higher color saturation.
The Luminosity blend mode matches the brightness of the original color to the brightness of the new color. From left to right - the Continuous, Once and Background Swatch sampling options. The Background Swatch sampling option will replace the Background color with the Foreground color. Changing the mode of the tool may help you achieve your desired effect.
You can also select brushes by pressing B. Press Esc to cancel. Table of contents 1. How do I replace a color in Photoshop? Tap the image to select the color to replace — I always start with the purest part of the color…. You can add an eyedropper with the plus sign after selecting the one you want. Watch how to replace color in photoshop cs6 Video.
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