gaftalik - You show Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 as your software so I am not sure if this works in 10 (I did this in Designer Pro X 16), but if it is available, you can use Levels in the Photo Tool flyout and reduce the Output Levels as shown in my screen shot. This makes the lights a bit darker and the darks a bit lighter. Then create a shape for the colored areas, apply a color then apply Color transparency.
You can play with the percent of transparency as well as adjust the color in the Color Editor. This preserves some of the light and shadow while making it easier to add color.
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It depends on whether you are recolouring an original photograph, or reusing elements to use in a new composition. If you are recolouring, then the way that Gary suggests also preserves the correct shading in the picture as well, so it still looks natural.
Keith
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There are 10 types of people in this world .... Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
There are many ways to change the colour of a dark or light photo and all shown in this thread work quite well. In my examples I changed the tan chair to grey using photo hue tools and brightness levels. There are to many ways to explain them all here.
Stygg
No, you're quite welcome to it, Stygg, it's like a dance.
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your operation is so useful, it has helped me.
I did it as your operated and reached the effect I wanted
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