Replacing colours - help!

[mariamurr]

Hi all,

I recently got an assignment that is about designing different colourways for a fabric print pattern. I have tried to change the colours with Replace Color adjustment, but every time I try to change the colours, only the saturation and lightness sliders move, not the hue. In Hue/Saturation adjustment I can apparently only change the lightness of the colour. Where you think the problem is? I'm using version 8.0 of Photoshop CS for Mac - do you think there could be some compatibility issues here? Or are the colours somehow "locked"?

Every answer will be greatly appreciated.

[Burned Ice]

upload a pic? (with watermark 'fcourse =) )

[mariamurr]

I'm afraid I can't, it's for the autumn collection of the firm where I work as an intern... The design, anyway, has two colours and two respective layers.

[Burned Ice]

i'm not the pro in here but no image= no idea about how the problem looks like

[SeniorS]

Thats because you got Duotone colormode. Then you should be able to change color easily. Go in menu Image/Mode/Duotone... and choose color you want.

[mariamurr]

Thanks, SeniorS, but I can't open Duotone, because it is unavailable. Written in a lighter gray, I mean.

[SeniorS]

Okey then, what is writen at image window title? like blablabla@25%(RGB/8???)?

And give screenshot of layer panel. I mean when right after moment when Replace color didn't work.

[ibclare]

My guess is that you aren't clicking the "colorize" square at the bottom and if you have a CMYK doc, it won't change hues. What mode is your document?

I hope you can see this example. If not, I can cut it into 2 docs. I wanted to show what happens with a CMYK img vs. RGB when you use hue/sat adjustments. A CMYK will change whatever hues are there according to the color slider. With an RGB img, each color block adjusts relative to its native/original hue (I know I didn't say that very well as I am not that technical).

Like the others have said, it will be useful to have more info as well as be able to see the image you are working on. Thanks, IB

OOPs, forgot to label which is which. RGB on the left. Also, notice that CMYK colors are flatter and aren't in the "millions" like RGB.

[ibclare]

Here's the colorize box on the hue adjustment:

[ashley12]

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