How To Change Shirt Color In Photoshop

Changing the color of habiliment in Photoshop can exist a real time saver when you accept identical items that are bachelor in different colors. Which is why I've decided to put this tutorial together which shows you how to change the colour of an item quickly and hands.

Below you tin watch my video tutorial and beneath information technology, I have the principal steps written and have uploaded some pictures as well. Note that while I am using Photoshop CC in this tutorial, older versions that are every bit old as Photoshop CS3 will work (maybe even older ones).

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To start, open up up your image in Photoshop. If the layer containing the prototype is locked, but unlock it by clicking on the layer as shown below.

Select colour range:

Next you lot volition need to go to "select > color range" equally shown in the picture show below.

Select your dress in the paradigm:

As you can run across in the image below, color range opens upwards a window which allows y'all to select colors in your image using an eyedropper. In the tutorial, I was selecting a dress. To do this, I get-go adjusted the fuzziness level.

The fuzziness level basically tells Photoshop how closely it needs to match a color. The higher the fuzziness level, the more than it picks upward different shades of the color.

If I were to go very high in fuzziness, information technology would start picking upwardly areas that I don't want selected. Note that yous can adapt the fuzziness level even after selecting your colors with the eyedropper.

Now you can apply the eye dropper to select your wear. Note that there are 3 eyedroppers that you can choose from on the right. In that location is the regular eyedropper, one with a plus (+) sign too every bit ane with a minus (-) sign.

The regular eyedropper basically selects just ane colour. The one with the plus sign, lets y'all choose multiple colors and the one with the minus sign lets yous remove a colour.

In the video I used the eyedropper with the plus sign while property downwards the shift key on my keyboard. I held down the shift key so that I could choice upward multiple colors at once. My goal was to pick upwards all shades of purple and due to the lighting and shadows, there were different shades of majestic.

By using the eyedropper with the plus sign and property downwards the shift cardinal on my keyboard, I was able to select my entire dress.

Every bit you can see, the preview screen shows you the area that yous are selecting. Once I have selected the entire dress, I only clicked on the "ok" push for the selection to appear.

Once your item is selected, it will wait like this:

Change the color of your item:

Now you volition want to click on the two tone circle icon which reads "create new fill or adjustment layer" while belongings down the "pick" keyboard central if you are on a Mac or the "alt" keyboard key if you lot are on a Windows estimator and click on "hue/saturation" from the bill of fare with your mouse. Hold downward the "option" or "alt" primal until the dialog window appears.

In the dialog window, y'all can rename your layer or exit it on the default. I entered clothes just to make things easier.

Now a color window volition appear. In this window, check off the box "colorize".

Afterwards, simply move the sliders "hue", "saturation" and "lightness" to the level of your choice. Equally you can run across in the image, I turned a purple dress into green.

To add more colors, merely correct click on the "hue/saturation" layer and duplicate it. And so adjust the color by clicking the layer thumbnail, but remember to hide the other "hue/saturation" layers by clicking on the "centre" icon. After creating all your color layers, you can switch between colors by hiding and unhiding the layers.

Other techniques for changing colour:

Change a Person'due south Skin Colour

While this tutorial focuses on skin, the techniques used in the video tin can piece of work with clothing as well. These techniques are especially useful when it comes to vesture and objects that are hard to deal with.