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Changing a single Hue into an image

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Changing a single Hue , leaving untouched other colors , into an image in psp8 is quite easy , here is explained how.






We'll start!

Note - This trick is intended for changing a complete color range into another.
So if you have some areas inside the picture , belonging to the same color range of those areas that you are going to change , and you want those areas to remain unchanged , just take a rough selection around the editing area and use the selection to apply this effect only to the interested image's parts .

A tipical Hue Saturation adjustament window

Open a image in Paint shop pro8.
Launch adjust>Hue and Saturation>Hue Saturation Lightness.

A window , like the above will appears.

1 - From this drop down menu (item1) you'll choose a rough color range among : masters , reds , yellows , greens , cyans , blues , magentas.

Note - The color range you'll choose here , are the only colors that will change after adjustament.
If you wish to apply the effect to the entire image , just select : "master" from the drop down list.
For my image I edited only the "blues" colors , as you can see from the first , original picture.

2 - This wheel represent the final result.
3 - This wheel represent the starting colors .
4 - this is a visual representation ot the editing color range , it appears only after you choose a color range from the drop down menu.
You can move it (by dragging its central circle point) and therefore define different editing color range , you can even resize it to increase or decrease the range of editable colors whithin the image (by dragging on its two left and right limit lines ) , the neighbored squared shape rectangles represents color fading and also their can be resized , the more long the more fading.

Note - Always watch the external wheel (item3) every time you'll make adjustments at the color range (item4) .

5 - Here you can see your final result.

So let's do just a brief resume.

Open an image containing a range of color you want to change.
Make a selection only if necessary.
From the "adjust" menu launch Hue and Saturation>Hue Saturation Lightness.
From the color ranges drop down list , select a range that roughly resembles the colors you want to change inside the image.
Fine tune your choise for the color ranges by using item4.
Once you have defined your editing colors , drag the adjustment levels for Hue , Saturation and Lightness (or digit the numbers directely inside the proper fields), and the changes will apply only for the editing colors you have chosen earlier, living untouched other image's colors.

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