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doubleueffdesign
Joined: 25 Aug 2007
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Location: Manchester, England
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:11 am Post subject: Colour Replacemnet |
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Hi
I am currently working on a new project for a well known British Waterproof clothing company - With the timelines for samples (being manufactured in China) they only have one colour of one style of jacket available for photography, this image has then to be retouched into the 5 other colourways - with me so far?
The burning question is: the garment colour can be anywhere from a a muddy brown colour even black, ranging through to a light pumice colour (almost white) so.... how do I turn an image of a brown jacket into a an almost white image whilst keeping it looking as fresh as possible?
Any ideas? all the mid tone colours are a breeze - its just a hue/saturation tweak but getting from a dark colour to a light colour is very tricky and vice versa
I'd appreciate any help any of you lot may have to this seeingly easy task (in the eyes of the client) but believe me its harder than you think!
Cheers
WF
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BryanDowning

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Location: California, USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Can you post a sample? I'd like to take a whack at it.
_________________ Best Regards,
Bryan Downing
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doubleueffdesign
Joined: 25 Aug 2007
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Location: Manchester, England
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: Test Image |
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Hi
Please see attached image (just lo res at this point) -ive given you the two target models for this style (very pale grey/blue and a pale gold)
Please have a go and see what you can come up with - bear in mind that I have 125 styles to do 3 different colourways in!
So wish me luck
Cheers
WF
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BryanDowning

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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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Here's what I came up with. It's not perfect, but more attention to detail would probably help. I did these very quickly to get the point across.
http://dev.onesourceed.com/bryan/jacket.zip
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2007-08-28T12:08:13-08:00 File Untitled-1 opened
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In: C:\Documents and Settings\Bryan\Desktop\gray.psd
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2007-08-28T12:19:17-08:00 File jacket.psd opened
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The most important thing I did here was duplicate the original brown. Then on the duplicate run Image>Adjustments>Curves...
Then Ctrl+click one of the medium brown colors from the image. A dot will appear on the diagonal line. Move it around to change that range of color. You can play around with it and get multiple dots by Ctrl+clicking multiple times.
Does that all make sense?
_________________ Best Regards,
Bryan Downing
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