My own opinion on color replacers

Hi Everybody,
I have not tried any plug- ins or any of Jeff's macros.
However, I have tried out the color replacers, changers, whatever in PP
back to version 5, PS 7, PSP X2, and Adobe Elements 6.
They all seem to do about the same thing -- you can select a range of
colors to replace. The replacement works well for the full range of TONES
in the original. Unfortunately, they all gave bizarre results for color.

.. THE RANGE OF CHOSEN COLORS WAS REPLACED WITH A SINGLE HUE !

That's fine and dandy for an automobile. It's absolutely horrible for
a face.
Attached is an image of a gradient. The colors to be replaced center
around green. The replacement color is pink. The color replacer put in a
solid pink swatch. Using the Lab curves, the range of greens became
replaced with a range of pinks. The Curves dragged the adjacent colors with
it but the color replacer put down a solid pink hue.
Phil
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  • Hi Phil,

    on the subject of 'Replacing Colours' here is an image from the Net I tried a macro of mine on. Another one of my unfinished macros - BDSKinTones. I click on an average area of skin colour and then run the macro. It promotes the background to a layer and names it "original" and places 5 copies of the image  on separate layers, each with a skin tone variation. I use buttons to quickly view the layers, one at a time and whichever one is selected when I click 'OK' is retained while all the others are deleted. I am left with the chosen edited image plus the original intact below it. I added some 'heavy' smoothing and makeup. I usually apply less smoothing and makeup, but I was watching a movie set in the 1800s and it looked a little like this.

    Best regards,
    Brian.

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