I need some help with Photopaint as I'm a anovice user!
Basically I want to take a picture of a man wearing a t-shirt and be able to change the colour of the t-shirt, while still keeping it looking like a real t-shirt (eg wrinkles, shading) rather than a t-shirt shaped block of colour, which is all I've managed so far.
I sell T-shirts and want to have a standard t-shirt picture which I can change the colour of and add logos to, is this even possible?!
I'm not so good at this myself, but I recently saw an example of exactly what you're talking about in another forum here.
He says he did it using curves in LAB mode if that helps at all. I'm sure it's not the only way to go about it. Maybe others will post more or examples but in the meanwhile here's a link to that other post in case it helps. It's at least evidence that what you want is possible.
http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/21180/93805.aspx#93805
Hope it helps
1. Create a mask from the T-Shirt outline.
2. Create a new layer on top. Drag a rectangle with plain color, the one you want to use for the shirt.
3. Cut off the edges from the rectangle with the mask, so that it gets the shape of the shirt.
4. Set the colored object to multiply mode.
Common task in 3D Apps to build shaders.
Thanks Andrew, at least I know it's possible now!
Reading through that forum though has made me realise just how little I know about PhotoPaint however.... just off to try and find what on earth lab colour modes and curves are.....
This article: The Three Cs of Image Editing (Part 6) has some info I recently found very useful to understand curves / tone curve. I'm afraid I can't help with explaining LAB color.
The tip from MO looks like a good way if you can get the shirt section masked. I'm going to try it myself .
mo said: 2. Create a new layer on top. Drag a rectangle with plain color, the one you want to use for the shirt. 3. Cut off the edges from the rectangle with the mask, so that it gets the shape of the shirt.
Of course you can do it the other way round with clipping: