change the color/hue of an image help

[restless_rooster]

Hey everyone
I need a little bit of help. I have a picture that I am trying to change the colors of. I tried searching, but I can't figure out the correct term so its hot helping me.
I have an image, its full color, just a regular jpg. I want the whole picture to be variations of a color. Basically like the sepia effect does under the adjustments menu.
I have the hex and the rgb color codes, but I can't figure out how to do it. A key factor in this is that I am colorblind. (Yes I see colors, but not as well as everyday people).
I tried to play with the hue/saturation under the adjustments menu, but I can't actually type the rgb code there. I can adjust the sliders, but when I can't tell the shades, its a little tough. That was getting me nowhere, so I converted it to greyscale and then back to rgb and tried again, but no luck. I can only adjust up to +100 and -100 in that menu.
I just thought about it again, and I can convert it to greyscale, create a new layer, fill with my color and change the opacity, but I don't know if there is a correct way to do what I want, or if what I just described is the best way.

Thanks for all your help,
Rooster

 

[Tom Mann]

Hi rr -

The difficulty in answering your question is that there are a huge number of ways to "change the color of an image ...to... variations of a color", but we don't know for sure which of them you prefer. For example one can:

• change the colors of only the mid-tones,
• change the colors of only the darkest and lightest tones, but leave the mid-tones alone,
• change only the most strongly saturated areas, but leave the more weakly saturated areas more-or-less alone,
• give every pixel in the image the exact same hue and saturation values, but let the brightness vary (in the HSB color model),
• the same as the previous possibility except in the HSV model (it produces quite different results),
• let some of the original colors bleed through any of the above,
• etc. etc.

You did say "basically, like the sepia effect under the adjustments menu". This is much more specific suggestion, except that effects named "sepia" are available under several different adjustments / tools in PS, e.g., in the hue-saturation adjustment layer, in the photo filter adjustment layer, the color LUT (in CS6), in the duo- and tri-tone set of adjustments, as well as (if I remember correctly) in one or more items in the default actions menu. They all give somewhat different sepia effects. In addition, practically every commercial plug-in that allows colors to be modified include sepia and similar toning effects, and yes, they are all slightly different. There's no one "right" answer.

However, if, by some chance, you meant the very first possibility, ie, the sepia preset under the hue-saturation adjustment layer, changing the color is easy - just move the hue slider till you see an effect you like. One reason that effect doesn't allow one to type in a specific color (ie, RGB, CMKY, Pantone, hex, etc.) is because useful "sepia effects" don't produce an image with just one RGB or hex value -- that would make for a *really* uninteresting image . Instead, they all produce a range of RGB or hex values from very dark to very light, but in the same general region of the color wheel.

That being said, probably the best way to get the effect you are looking for is to give us a link to an image toned the way you like, and also post one of your own images as a starting image, and we'll see how close we can come.

HTH,

Tom M

 

[chitkaran]

to make it short and crist and yet answer your query mate...


1. You can use hue/saturation with Colorize clicked to have a color tone to the whole image. You can select area also to have color on the specific area.


2. If you have a specific color code that you want to overlay, create a new layer and fill it with desired color. Change blenf modes and opacity and achieve desired result.


3. For the tints only, you can use Adjustments -> Black n White and Bottom you find a box for Tint.. select the desired color and achieve desired look.




Do post the image incase you want something more precise and specific.

 

[restless_rooster]

Thank you both for your answers
I will try some of the suggestions above tomorrow night, and ill let you know how it goes. Ill still post the picture tomorrow also.
I've been using PS on and off for years, since I can't even remember when. Never had to use it A LOT, but now I'm going to have to start using it more. So if I can't figure out how to do something that I don't know how, and can't find it on google, you'll see me here

Thanks again