Changing colors on selected areas

[bravo]

Hello


I'm back and stumped once again, (shocker) any help is appreciated. I'm manipulating the colors on the soles of these shoes and was able to change the colors on the mens and baby shoes, now I'm working on the girls and women shoes. When I got through the process, like I did with the mens shoes I'm not able to change the white (on girls shoes) into any other color. I have a layer mask on the hue/sat filter I have gone between the black and white to reveal and hide. When I start adjusting the colors the whole image starts to change not my selected area. I have also just selected the mask to effect the selected area and no luck. :banghead:

What gives?

 

[ALB68]

Hi Bravo,
I can't see your panel too well, but if you will make a selection of the white part of the shoes then Ctrl J. That will put that area on a layer by itself. Then add your adjustment layer and CLIP THAT TO THAT LAYER. To do that, put your cursor between the two layers and hold down the ALT key (Windows). When the down pointed arrow appears, click it and then the adjustment only effects that layer and nothing else.

 

[ibclare]

ALB is right. If you do any changes to the adjustment, it will effect all unless you have painted out everything else on the mask, so why bother. Making a selection is best, then just add an extra adjustment layer and it will clip to the selection only. You don't actually have to put it on its own layer to do that. You could also make that selection, create a new layer with the selection active, fill it with a color that you want, then adjust the blend mode to pick up the light and shadow as the flat color layer wouldn't do by itself.

 

[bravo]

Much appreciated (alb68 & ibclare) I will give it another stab and see if I can get it to comply. Cheers!