Phil1923 said:I have not tried any plug- ins or any of Jeff's macros.
The FREE plugin solves the problem. I expect professional results, that's why I use it.
Phil1923 said:.. THE RANGE OF CHOSEN COLORS WAS REPLACED WITH A SINGLE HUE !
PP's plugin does not offer enough control. The range slider in PP's replace color dialog is garbage.
Phil1923 said:That's fine and dandy for an automobile. It's absolutely horrible for a face.
Even in the case of a car, the plugin is what you need since a car will have various hues depending on lighting.
Both Photoshop and the plugin have a fuzziness slider. PP doesn't.
Try changing the yellow car to the other color using PP's replace color command. It isn't going to happen as smoothly. So, I used the plugin. :-)
Hi Jeff,
you know me, I can't knock back a challenge. This took seconds to achieve using PP's Replace Color dialog and it has produced a better result than the plugin. Take a look to the bottom right of the picture (as we look at it) just above the bumper bar (fender?). There is a trick to using PP's tool and once you are aware of it - it is brilliant. It keeps shifting the Saturation and Lightness sliders around (randomly at times) and you have to drag them back to their centres. When you click with the Eyedropper they will move again and you have to put them back again. If you are willing to do that you will find the tool is as good as it gets.
Naturally, in my example I have used a different replacement colour, but made the same change.
Brian said:This took seconds to achieve using PP's Replace Color dialog and it has produced a better result than the plugin.
We disagree. :-)
The thing that bugs me about PP's is the range control.
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The next example is extra blotchy to show how PP "tries" to get a good result.
I just like the plugin more.
I still believe PP did a better job on the car though and have attached PP's colour replacement at the top and your version with the plugin at the bottom. If you look at the area of the car I have circled - the plugin has left very obvious traces of the original colour. I tried the plugin too and could not get the whole car to change colour without also affecting the pillars in the background.
Best regards,Brian.
One thing should be kept in mind here - we can always mask off areas of an image before even attempting to replace colours using any method, and this dramatically helps to reduce/eliminate our chances of changing colours of things in the image we do not wish to change.There is no question though that the job you did on the apple would be extremely difficult to achieve in PP and would require serious complex masking and blending. It would be an obvious waste of time.
Thanks for posting the example with the apple, Jeff, I am very impressed with this tool now.
Dudes I'm on an install and having to work, SUCKS but I'll check it out over the holiday. This week is hell with a sleigh.
I too, love and use that free plugin' quite often. Very nifty.
Now I understand that this is a silly/down & dirty alternative.............that doesn't always work as you need it to.
But for some conversions, especially when I only need to show a customer some quick color choices, I just use the Hue, Saturation, Lightness slider, right in Draw.
Fast & easy.
I love it when people battle with different techniques!