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Step Nine

Now that we have changed the orange to purple we can hit ok and look at the color change. You will notice that there has been a color shift in the image. We will need to fix this before we can finish the tutorial. If you remember that at the very beginning of the tutorial we duplicated the layer so that we can mask it (or if we made a mistake.), To make a mask, click on the Add Vector Mask down in the Layers Palate shown below.

Step Ten

We should have the Layer Mask active (it is by default) we need to select a brush (press B on the keyboard.) If your colors are not set to default press D on the keyboard. We also need to get background to foreground active (this is how masking works, black lets the background to come through and white is the foreground) to do this hit X on the keyboard. Now if you need to get a bigger or smaller brush to brush with tap [ for smaller brush size and ] for bigger brush sizes.

Step Eleven

Now we have set up the Layer Mask brush away everywhere that we do not want the purple to show. This is hands, beard and the background, if you make a mistake hit X on the keyboard and that changes the foreground to background to paint with and brush back over. When you have done, you should have something along the lines of this.

Final Thought

It takes a bit of practise at first to get the hang of the technique that I have shown you but it is worth it. You can play with the Hue, Saturation and lightness sliders for different results. The reason that I prefer and recommend this way over a plain old Hue and Saturation Adjustment layer is that you have more control of the color selection.Here is my before and after:

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Posted on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 at 2:01 pm in Photo Effects.