I need to select all the red areas in an image and replace them with a particular orange in one click.
So I have clicked on MASK > COLOR MASK (just using the magic wand tool only selected one red area, not all)
Then I used the eye dropper to select the color I'm after. Now all the red areas are selected. Good so far.
Then I chose the fill tool and clicked on one of the red selections, thinking that ALL the selections would fill with my new color, but NO. Only the one I clicked on turned orange.
Is there a "contiguous" button that I can turn off? I need to fill all the red areas with one click.
A solution to this would REALLY help me out!
What about Adjust/replace color?
steve johnson said:Then I chose the fill tool and clicked on one of the red selections, thinking that ALL the selections would fill with my new color, but NO. Only the one I clicked on turned orange.
Not quite the step you want:
The 'one-click- process you want.
Ariel: THAT'S IT!!!
I simplified my task for the sake of the post, but this seems to work.
In reality, I have to convert all my jpgs to tifs, then change all the rich blacks (100,100,100,100) to spot blacks (0,0,0,100) because our press has such poor registry, the small black text gets all fuzzy otherwise. (yes, my jpgs have text in them)
Anyway, I defined the two different blacks in my default palette, then I had to hunt down those colors in the dropdowns of the Replace Colors window, but I think it's working! Many Thanks!
Graewerld, your solution is using X4. Following your images as closely as I could, I couldn't duplicate your result in X5. But thanks for the quick reply!
CORRECTION
Graewerld, Your way works too. I just needed to show that I'm an idiot online. I went back and tried it again and it works. Many thanks!