Make the background color same color

[Kevin101]

Hi guys,

I have this image (see attached). I am trying to make the whole background have the same color (the darker blue color that starts from left side should replace the lighter blue colour on the right side).

How would I go on achieving this?

Thanks in advance

 

[MikeMc]

select the white tiles, mask them, add a fill layer underneath in your color choice. You will need some time above " Russia"

 

[Paul]

Threshold adjustment then make black blue.

 

[Kevin101]

Hi Paul,

thanks for the prompt reply and advice. However, in the changed pic you attached, it lost the puzzle texture. I want to keep the texture and details the same, except have them all have the same colour.

Can that be achieved?

 

[IamSam]

Interesting, I've tried all the tricks I can think of at the moment and I can not preserve the puzzle texture of the water on the right hand side and make the color uniform.

I'm out of time and have to run so I can't work on this anymore, but I would love to see if anyone can come up with a solution for this little challenge. I'm certain it will be fairly simple.

Good luck!

 

[MikeMc]

Not sure about texture of tiles.....they look white to me??

Couple of minutes with refine edge

 

[ibclare]

Here is what I did. I only made a rough selection of a portion. This will end up being a bit tedious and require some experimentation after your selection is made, but it will work.

I like the quick select tool. Here I used it both add and subtract pixels to define the borders. This means you have to zoom in pretty tight to see where the white has been selected when you only want the blue selected, especially as noted above where the blue is almost white due to the high reflection. I also used the lasso tool to cut out some of the areas which were too close in tone. Once you get your selection made, make a new layer of it.

Now you will use the gradient tool. It will take a few layers to get each area of blue to the right hue and shade. Make a layer above and clip it to the blue area selection. Change your foreground color to blue, picked from the middle blue or whatever color you want. I chose the hue of the middle blue as it is. Then make that color darker for the area which is really white. Set the tool to blue and transparent. Place the tool at the outer edge of the lightness, draw it out to the border of where the color changes darker. This will take a little playing around, but you will get the hang of it after you do an area or two.

Now set the blend mode of that layer to hard light. When you get to the darker area, you may want to choose a different blend mode such as overlay. You'll need to change the color to a darker blue when you are adding the gradient over the light areas, and a lighter, brighter blue when you adjust the dark areas.

Using blend modes allows the underlying pattern to show through the color you have added.

See if you can make heads or tails of this method. It is hard to explain if you haven't used gradients before, but as I said, playing around with it should give you the idea. I hope this helps.

I am having trouble uploading files at the moment. I'll add my example as soon as this changes.

 

[ibclare]

That's what I thought. It can be hard for a visual artist, me included, to follow written explanations. Hope this helps:



Yahoo, it's letting me post today@%$#^&*!

Oh, here is the reference picture for the way it looks -- to a point -- following these steps: