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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 - Fifth Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 - Fifth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248455
Pages 510 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
Profile icon Robin Nichols

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Color keys
2. Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch 4. Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing 5. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Simple Solutions 6. Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects 7. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Transformations, Layers, Masking, and Blend Modes 8. Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 9. Chapter 8: Additional Tools and Features 10. Chapter 9: Advanced Drawing, Painting and Illustration Techniques 11. Chapter 10: Exporting Work, Sharpening, and Plug-ins 12. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting, Additional Techniques 13. Chapter 12: Feature Appendix 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Color Replacement brush

You could have a lot of fun with this feature—applying the color change effect to similar-colored pixels so that Elements covers the area with a color wash. How much it changes is mostly influenced by the Tolerance slider.

Main image: I repainted the tops of the three women in just a few minutes with the Color Replacement tool. I thought that this was a pretty good result.

So, for example, if I want to replace blue with red, provided that all the blue pixels are the same value, the tool works well—but we all know that life in the digital editing realm is never like this, so that's why there's the Tolerance slider. This makes Elements a bit more or less sensitive when it's applying a color change. Increase the tolerance and it will apply the change to lighter and darker shades of blue. You have different brush styles to choose from: four different Blend Modes (I find Color works...

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