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Adjust hue / saturation such that colour X becomes colour Y
I need to convert some stock icon imagery to a pre-existing colour scheme. The method for conversion is to simply adjust the image hue to the right level.
However all I have to go on is existing ...
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2answers
64 views
How to color correct in Photoshop to match a color card
I'm trying to get accurate colors for a digital-photographed painting. The photo includes a color card ("Kodak Gray Scale", with cyan "C", yellow "Y", magenta "M", and a 19-step gray scale going from ...
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1answer
47 views
How can I easily swap colors / swap channels in Photoshop?
Back before I could afford a Mac I used a PC (when Windows XP ruled the earth). At that time I couldn't afford Photoshop either. So I had a WinXP box with Irfanview installed - and I thought that was ...
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What would be equivalent blue colour for this red/orange one?
I'm struggling to find a matching blue colour for this red one I've got: #cf3a1b
By 'matching' I mean similar feel, in terms of brightness, contrast, lighting etc...
I'm new to graphic design so I ...
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186 views
How to get a hand colored effect in Illustrator or Photoshop?
How do you create a hand colored effect, like in the image above, using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop? I'd like to know how they colored the arrows and how to add a rough gradient like the ...
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2answers
65 views
How do I move the color picker in a straight line?
Sometimes, when I'm trying to design something using a monochromatic color scheme, I want to make sure I get exact shades and tints of a specific color, but I don't know how I can do that because I ...
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3answers
412 views
How do I turn a full color design, into a 1-color design?
I was asked to design a piece of junk-mail advertising. It has to be one color. Here are links of how it should look:
What I want to know is, how do you get your design like that?
It's like ...
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1answer
116 views
Color spectrum Image - How to create
I want to create a color spectrum image for a project. How do I create an image like this in photoshop?
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148 views
How do I get the default color palette back in Photoshop?
So for some reason, totally unknown to me, I now have a very annoying color picker setup in Photoshop. At the moment, whenever I change the colour in the right-hand color selector (which updates the ...
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1answer
69 views
How to draw a image transparent in photoshop?
This arrow is transparent image.
I want to draw an icon like this image (transparent) in Photoshop.
The idea behind this is I want to colour the icon by using gradient tool in my app.
It would ...
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4answers
258 views
Darker shade of a given color
What does it mean and how do I get a darker shade of a given color. For example if I have the color
R = 53, G = 140, B = 205
or
H = 204, S = 74, B = 80,
or
#358CCD
What value do I change in ...
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1answer
46 views
Picking only black-white and grayscale images for batch-processing
Is it possible to pick only black-white and grayscale images for photoshop (or another graphical program) batch-processing, even if they are have colored mode (24 or 32 bit). Thus, all pixels bypass ...
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1answer
90 views
Black-white and grayscale to alpha conversion for images
Is there an utility for converting all black-white and grayscale images from certain folder to the same images with adjusted alpha channel?
For example, for pixel (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:0) I would like ...
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3answers
134 views
Add exact color to texture
Say I have a texture/pattern (like this one from subtlepatterns), and I want to make it a specific colour. I know a number of ways to color it (mostly in PS), from overlaying it on a block of the ...
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1answer
230 views
Get transparent color to create specific color on a specific background
I've got some Images like this one:
Now I need to find out the color which will become the orange in the right center of the image when drawn on a new layer with 50% opacity (The Background is the ...
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3answers
520 views
replace single color
How do I replace a single Color in photoshop!?
All, and I really mean all, sites I find with Google either use the replace color tool box (which just replaces hue), the replace color tool (which just ...
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1answer
222 views
How to print Photoshop file document to only one color?
Is there any way of converting a Photoshop file with text and logos to one only. I want to print to only one color.
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2answers
211 views
Pasting screenshot changes colors in Photoshop CS3
I've done search after search, messed with color profiles, image color management, etc, but I still find that when I simply print screen and paste it in Adobe Photoshop CS3, I get a much lighter ...
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1answer
272 views
Shadow below images
I have this image that I got from slidesjs.com
It looks awesome when used as a frame, but I want to "elongate" it. Steps on how to accomplish this? I know it looks like a simple shadow, but the ...
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1answer
256 views
How to create saturated color palette in Photoshop and Illustrator?
Assume that I have an A color with value 0xff0f0f and two basic black and white colors. How can I create quickly a swatch consists of all medium colors between white and A(lighter) and between A and ...
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2answers
713 views
What is the fastest way to copy a colour in Photoshop as HEX?
A lot of designers use Photoshop as a design and mockup tool. And in doing so, one of the last steps can be to get a lot of the colour information out so things like gradients and dynamic text can be ...
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1answer
121 views
How do I make photoshop only use a certain color set?
I want to make it so that I can change an image so that it only uses the colors I have listed, and if it doesn't have it, it changes to the closest available color. Is that possible and if so how?
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How to get the color of the shadow in the different blending mode? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to get the equivalent of a color in different blending modes?
I have an inner shadow effect applied to a shape with blending mode multiply. How to get the ...
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1answer
728 views
Color Picker in photoshop is wrong
NOTE: THERE ARE NO LAYER STYLES!
I'm having problems with my color picker in photoshop CS5
Number 1: Me selecting the black [ish] bar. Color picker returns gray
Number 2: Me selecting the white ...
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499 views
Image opened in adobe photoshop shows wrong color
I have opened an image in Adobe Photoshop, showing a green football lawn.
In Photoshop, this image is displayed with a violet color. Every picture I open has not it´s original colors.
Settings are:
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218 views
How to create a color tinted black and white effect?
I was wondering how I would go about recreating this look on a photo using Photoshop?
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1answer
150 views
How to design a color picker
...in photoshop, and like the one in photoshop
I know how to make the gradients, but how do I make the colors precise? Like showing all colors in the hue bar or getting a perfect black-to-transparent ...
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2answers
191 views
What causes the Eyedropper to change all samples to white?
My Eyedropper has suddenly started changing all samples to white. No matter what area of an image I click it samples white, this is regardless of sample size or modifier keys. If I manually select a ...
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1answer
5k views
Change color of Pattern overlay
I wonder if its possible to change the color of a pattern overlay in Photoshop?
I googled a lot but couldn't find anything useful.
So I have a layer with pattern overlay, but I also want to use ...
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1answer
615 views
How do I export a JPG with the same color profile as my Photoshop workspace?
I created a design for a webpage in Photoshop and got all the colors looking perfect.
However, when I export it to a jpeg and view it outside of Photoshop the colors are completely different. If I ...
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2answers
1k views
How to select colours that match each other?
Looking at the colours in this logo, it is clear that the colours match each other.
How is an orange and purple found that matches the same colour scheme?
I suppose the colour in the 'R' is yellow?
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2answers
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Photoshop CS5 - how to “normalize” colors in an image to reduce the noise?
New to photoshop so bear with me...
I have a scanned image that, ideally, should be just three colors: red, black, and white. The original was a pen an ink drawing and the act of scanning added all ...
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1answer
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How do I match image brightness in Photoshop?
Say I have an image that had it's brightness adjusted. I also have a small portion of the original unmodified image like this:
Is there a way in Photoshop CS5 to have the image's brightness ...
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3answers
459 views
How to create this grainy & pixelated effect?
How do you recreate the effect as seen in this picture through Photoshop? I'm talking about the grainy texture...
I tried using noise filter and played with layer blends, but the result is less ...
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1answer
243 views
Is there a chart for color combinations? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette around colors I select?
Is there a chart or something which shows you which color goes with with color?
For ...
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2answers
732 views
CS PDF Export color loss
I'm working with a psd in PS in CMYK mode. After exporting a standard "High Quality Print" PDF, there is noticeable overall desaturation in the exported PDF. Why, if I am working in CMYK, and ...
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Inverted colors on opening PDF in photoshop
When opening this PDF in Photoshop(CS3) all colors are automatically inverted.
How can I change this behaviour? The file has correct colors when opening it with Adobe Acrobat.
The file is generated ...
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2answers
2k views
Colors change in Photoshop when copying a selection from one document into a new document
I'm trying to copy a particular layer out of a Photoshop document into its own new document and export it for use on the web. I'm doing this by right-clicking the layer in the layers palette, ...
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1answer
118 views
How to create an art asset that can be dynamically colored in software?
Specifically, I have a bunch of photographic crayon images. I would like to remove the color from one to produce a neutral image that I can load into an iPhone app that I'm writing and dynamically ...
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Color matching tools [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette around colors I select?
Can anyone recommend a good tool / website for finding color matches for a certain color ...
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6answers
260 views
Is there a best way to convert an image from colour to black&white?
This is a simple question but it doesn't seem to be here.
My question: Is there a better way to convert a colour image into a B&W (in photoshop) one than just changing the 'mode' of the image? By ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to make Adjustment Layers ignore certain layers?
Is it possible to insert a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer at the top of all layers - but make it so that chosen layers are not affected by it?
Can it be done without altering positions? (Ie. moving ...
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2answers
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Photoshop - adjustment layer to change colors of multiple layers?
I remember I opened a PSD file which did this.
It had like 4 hidden "adjustment" layers, each for a specific color, and all the elements that used a certain color were being changed depending on ...
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2answers
154 views
How do I shift/remap one range of colors to another in Photoshop?
I have attached an image to hopefully explain better, but if say I have an image that ranges from color 'A' to 'C', and I want it to range from 'B' to 'D' instead - what is the best method?
I'm sure ...
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5answers
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Colors in Website Design
It's not a kind of question but rather it's a kind of thing which effects a lot in web designing.
What are some important rules to follow for making a color combination in web design?
I always fail ...
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2answers
2k views
Translation of Hex Colours to RGB Colours?
Apparently Illustrator and Photoshop uses different colour settings - Illustrator uses RGB and Photoshop uses some hex/HTML-like colour system with a combination of letters and numbers. Is there any ...
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3answers
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How to choose the right color to get the wanted effect in web design?
For example, in this tutorial, how could the author know which color to choose for creating a navigation bar? Why did he/she know that the gradient from #d0d0d0 to #f9f9f9 would generate the following ...
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5answers
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How do I change a single layer to grayscale in Photoshop CS4?
I know you can have the whole image turn grayscale: Image > Mode > Grayscale, but what if I only want to make specific layers grayscale? There's gotta be an easier way than pulling out the layers you ...
