How to turn a black object into white on an image?

[Geveze]

Hi there,

on a picture. i can turn a blue object into yellow, green or any other color. and vice versa.
To do that i know 5 different ways, or combination of those methods.

1- Hue/Saturation
2- Color Balance
3- Selective Color
4- Replece Color (Similar to Hue/Saturation)

5- select the area, create a new layer, paint the selected area on new layer, blend the new layer with "linear burn".


but when it comes to black, i can't change the black to another color with any of the ways above. So i was wondering if it is possible to turn a black object into white without killing the texture. Or cleaning the object from colors, making it colorless.
best way i know so far is playing with "exposure" settings. but this time the objcet on the image is becoming blure and loosing its texture.

Here is the object i m trying to make white (or colorless). Do you know any way to do it?


i need to make that shoe as white/colorless as this one below.


thanks

[chenmesika]

it's a little problem, but of course it is possible. everything's possible with photoshop.

have you tried to paint with white on a new layer and play with the blending modes? maybe "color" blending mode.. try thinking this way and not just with the regular hue/saturation, cause the simple tools are good only for the simple jobs.. you're job is not that simple..

[iDad]

Here is a suggestion, I have been trying it, just to see if I could do it. What I did was I made a new layer >inverted it to white, placed it underneath the black layer then played with transparency of the black one.It is possible but very time consuming if detail a necessity. tricky as all getgo.