Step 5: Now we are going to paint the new cushion colours on. Zoom in on the area of the image where you are going to start painting. The higher the magnification the better, as we need to work to fine edges.
Step 6: Switch your
foreground and background colours so white is the foreground,
(keyboard short cut, X)
Step
7: Select the paint brush tool, (keyboard short cut, B). Make sure the
paint brush options are set to, mode normal, opacity 100% and flow 100%.
Step 8: Adjust the brush to a manageable size so you can paint to fine edges. A very useful keyboard short cut to change the brush size, are the square brackets, located to the right of the letter P. The left hand square bracket tool decreases the size of the brush, and the right square bracket increases the brush size.
Step
9: With the “Hue/Saturation 1” layer active (shown in blue)
start to paint (using foreground set to white) over the parts of the image
where you want to retrieve the colour adjustments we made earlier. Move
around the image painting over all the areas where you need to retrieve
the colour. Use the square bracket keys to increase and decrease the size
of the brush as you go.
Another useful short cut to move around an image while zoomed in, is the spacebar on the keyboard. Pressing the spacebar will change your cursor into the hand tool. By holding down the spacebar click and drag your mouse to move the image. This saves zooming and re-zooming into a different part of the image.
Step
10: Below our painting effect is almost complete. But there are a couple
of areas where I have slipped with my brush tool. One area is on the arm,
the other around the bottom area of the model.
To
correct this we need to switch our foreground and background colours,
so that black is the foreground, (keyboard short cut, X). With the foreground
colour set to black, and the
“Hue/Saturation 1” layer active, zoom in, and with a small
brush paint over the mistake areas. This will retrieve the original colours.
Your image should now be complete.
If you are happy with the colour adjustments you made, then this workshop for you is now completed.
Step 11: If you are unhappy with the colour you choose, this is not a
problem, because now it is very easy to change using the “Hue/Saturation
1” adjustment layer. To change the colour, double click on the “Hue/Saturation
1” thumbnail.
This
will bring up the Hue/Saturation box, you can now adjust the Hue and Saturation
sliders to create a new colour, and it will only effect the colour in
the layer mask. I changed the Hue -30, Saturation +50 and lightness 0
to create a blue colour.
This
workshop shows you why you should use layer masks to adjust your images,
because if you make mistakes, or would like to make adjustments at a later
stage, it makes it very easy to do so.
