making logo's 1 colour

[sjorsCO2]

I all... thanks for helping out! (I hope..)
I have multiple logo's wich have multiple colours. I want all the logo's to be in the same colour... So every coloured pixel in a logo needs to be coloured in a specific coulour.

How is the way to do this? I tried the magicstaf thing, but it doenst select all of the pixels...

Do I need a mask or something and how do I do this?

Thanks all

Sjors

[Sammo]

Hello Sjors,

The "magicstaf" will do what you want if, in the Tool Options Palette, you unselect the "contiguous" check box. With "contiguous" selected, the MagicWand command finds similar pixels that are touching each other; with "contiguous" unselected, MagicWand finds similar pixels everywhere in your logo.

-- Sam

[Grafixman]

Although I do not have PSP, I don't think using the MagicWand to select the parts to be colored is the way to go. Specially if your logo is multicolored and have anti-aliased edges. Using the magic wand would give you hard aliased edges and it would also be difficult to select all the elements in the logo.
Masking or using the alpha channels would be the better method, imo. Just to be sure, I did a Google check to see PSP's masking capability and it appears to be very capable.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/1871/masks.html
What you should try is to open the Color channels of the image and pick one with good definition, copy it and maybe edit the gray levels of the mask channel so that it is evenly white where it should be filled while retaining the shape of the logo. Then you could load this as a selection in a new layer and fill it. The operation is better described in the last parts of the link I posted above...
A quick 2 minute test using Google's logo. done in PI. If I took time to tweak the gray levels, it should be possible to get even values (without the bevelling effect) of coloring in the logo. PSP's masking abilities is even better than PI, from what I've seen in PSP tutorials...

http://home.pchome.com.tw/art/grafixman/Colorizing.gif

[sallybode]

Actually, if you change the item such as the Google LOGO to Grayscale, adjust the contrast so that there are no saturated blacks, this can be done in levels and in contrast adjustment, you can then colorize to red which will boost your colors back up to normal, then Adjust/Color Balance/Red/Blue/Green, turn the Red to 100%, the Blue and Green to 0%. Then copy the first "o" in Google and paste over the formerly yellow "o" and you have done it.

However, if the purpose is to create a printable file where everything will print in one color at a commercial printers, once you have achieved the Grayscale and balanced the gray, do all the artwork that needs to be printed in the same grayscale mode and let the printer print it in the color of your choice.

[Grafixman]

That's a great tip, http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif . Yup, directly colorizing desaturated images is also one way of doing it. And cloning the uncooperative parts is how I'd do it, too. And if you want a flat colored version, there's the brush and airbrush tool to paint over the unwanted parts.
But if you're planning to have the final result enlarged, rotated or whatever, you should consider retracing the logo in vector format. By hand, preferably. Automated vector tracers in general does the job poorly.

[sjorsCO2]

Garfixman i have sended an email to your adress in your profile...

Hope you can help me out...
thanks for the help so far... but its a little beyond my capablities i guess

[sjorsCO2]

Dear Sally and Grafixman....

Well I am basicly making a website for a friend, this is not my work just a hobby. But I am not into Photoshop things. So this I dont understand.
I have these logo's
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~sjoerdj/logo1.jpg


http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~sjoerdj/logo2.jpg
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~sjoerdj/logo3.gif

which I would like tohave the colour of the site's main colour.
the main colour is #C6486D
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~sjoerdj/%23C6486D.gif

When I do it myself it comes out like
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~sjoerdj/airushlogo.gif
which lookes shitty to me...

Hope you guys can help me out..

Greets
Sjoerd

[Grafixman]

These are easy...


http://home.pchome.com.tw/art/grafix...go1colored.gif

http://home.pchome.com.tw/art/grafix...go2colored.gif

http://home.pchome.com.tw/art/grafix...go3colored.gif

[sjorsCO2]

maybe a quick explanation/tuiterol??

Thanks by the way! Great!

[Grafixman]

As I said, I don't have PSP, and I used Photoimpact for your logos. But the basic technique should be the same.
1.Convert your logos to grayscale.
2.Adjust the levels control so that the logos are as uniformly black as possible without sacrificing the anti-aliasing on the edges.
3.Invert the grayscale images so that the logos become white against a black background.
4.Open a new file the same dimension as the logo, but make sure that the color mode is RGB.
5.Import the inverted grayscale images as selection. Then fill the selection with the color you want.
The steps are peculiar in PhotoImpact because there is no direct access to the color alpha channels. But you can load grayscale images as selections, which is basically the same. PSP has access to them, so maybe you'd be copying the inverted grayscale images to clipboard and pasting them as new alpha channels. Then it would just be a matter of loading the alpha channel and filling it with the color in your regular layer....