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Essentially I'm trying to make another background, beneath this image, become the colour of the object. The object/phone is red, the under-background is a linear gradient of colour and I'm trying to have that linear-gradient of colour come through instead of the red.

All the while maintaining the lighting/shadows of the object. None of the solutions I've attempted have seemed even close to correct. Could luminousity masks have something to do with a solution?

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Here's one possible method

Layer 1: gradient

Layer 2: mask on white fill

Layer 3: desaturated original, set to multiply mode, layer opacity reduced to 69%

Layer 4: same as layer 3, but with inverted mask applied, set to hard light mode, opacity 100%

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Please excuse the bad quality of the GIF, because GIFs don't do gradients very well.

Here's a sample showing the before and after, but with better quality

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  • Could I ask a question or two tomorrow, if I have trouble implementing your solution? Also, thanks, this seems excellent.
    – Bill Robbins
    Commented Feb 22, 2021 at 23:55
  • @BillRobbins Sure you can ask for clarification if there's something you don't understand.
    – Billy Kerr
    Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 0:04
  • I should have mentioned then, that the background I'm relying on is a CSS linear gradient with the GIMP image sitting on top of it. Also, I'm a complete novice at GIMP, some basic points elude me
    – Bill Robbins
    Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 17:42
  • @BillRobbins Then you'll probably need to come up with something that doesn't use layer blending modes. For example, here I created separate highlights and shadow layers using GIMP's Colour to Alpha filter imgur.com/mmztsUt - obviously, it's not going to look as good as using layer blending modes inside GIMP. Instead you'd just have semi transparent pixels laying on top of a background, with no computation. Maybe it could be tweaked a bit using levels.
    – Billy Kerr
    Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 18:40
  • Alright then, it would function much like a children's book with plastic overlays that build up an image.
    – Bill Robbins
    Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 19:12

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