making a colored object appear white

Hi, I have a photograph with a blue object in it and I would like to change it to a white object while still keeping the important shadows and still keeping it realistic looking.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Nicholas

Hi, I have a photograph with a blue object in it and I would like to change it to a white object while still keeping the important shadows and still keeping it realistic looking.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Nicholas

Yup... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Create a tight selection around that object.
Press Ctrl+U. Drag the "Saturation" slider right down (to the left).
Then press Ctrl+L to open the LEVELS filter. Drag the right slider over a bit to lighten up the area. Then drag the left slider over a little to re-darken the shadow areas.

It might help a bit more if we had a peek at the image. Might be other ways to get this more exact for you. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[This message was edited by Mark (theKeeper) on August 06, 2003 at 02:53.]

for example, visit http://www.theimagingfactory.com/. You need to follow "products", "color correction tools" and the fifth is "Color Correction v 2.0". I'm right pleased with it (doesn't work in DeBabeliserPro5 but it's OK elsewhere).

Jon

Huh??!!! Buy a plugin just to remove the colour from an image? That doesn't make sense. Photoshop is more than capable of doing this by itself. And in a number of ways too i might add.

:O\

Mark

Look, I'm an amateur ansd I'm unaware of what PS can do natively. I was thinking from a different angle, which can be necessary for non-PS users, which may havwe been misplaced on that forum.

Jon

Aaah ok, i see where you're coming from Jon.

My advice in your case then is to ask around about anything you're not sure of in PS. There's a ton of helpful folk out here that can put you on the straight and narrow... and probably save you a few bucks as well. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

If you should have any questions/concerns... feel free to ask either here, or at my Forum: http://photoshopgurus.info/forum/

http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

After all these years I can honestly say that most third party plug-ins are either usesless, slow, sometimes incompatible with newer versions of Photoshop, not user friendly (many times a totally different interface than Photoshop has) and very expensive.

Most of these manufacturers have only one kind of customers in mind; those who think Photoshop is too difficult to use, but never took or never will take the time to learn its strength.

If you never have the time to learn Photoshop, why buy it in the first place? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

And why adding more expensive plug-ins to the already costly Photoshop? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

And why not considering a very good product like Photoimpact for only $80, cheaper than many plug-ins http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

Questions, questions, questions, ... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Well!
I knew you Canadians were ahead of us politically and socially, but I had no idea you were so darn good at photoshop!
Thanks a lot for the responses, I had a hunch it was about the saturation/levels and maybe curves, but I just couldn't get the right combination down.
My project turned out great!
Thanks again!
Nicholas

Yes, the Hue & Saturation (Ctrl+U), but also tweak the lightness up (not only adjust the saturation control).

Per-Otto

A suggestion:
First of all place the part of the foto here, and they will create what they describe about.
Secondly, cut the part of the foto you want to change.
Use effect "two colors", leaving "any percent of the natural color"
Put the pic.2 on the pic.1, slightly erasing sides.
Save as a new pic.

Best regards,
Charisma
(48 years, turner from Ukraine)

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Per-Otto:
Yes, the Hue & Saturation (Ctrl+U), but also tweak the lightness up (not only adjust the saturation control).

Per-Otto<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yes, i believe i covered that Otto http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Then press Ctrl+L to open the LEVELS filter. Drag the right slider over a bit to lighten up the area. Then drag the left slider over a little to re-darken the shadow areas. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>