Tip for 12/6/05 - When recoloring

[angedawn]

Many of you probably know this little trick about recoloring. When you want to recolor a paper or an element, you can do a "Control-U" while the layer is selected and you can move those sliders around to get it to be the hue that you want.

Well, if you take your color picker and pick the color you would like to recolor the image to and make it your foreground color first, when you do "Control-U' the Hue is automatically set to match that foreground color. You will probably have to adjust the other two sliders to get the right darkness and saturation, but at least your top slider is automatically in the right spot!

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season! :)

[Tiffbrady]

Ange, thanks a TON for this one! I know that you showed it to me a few weeks ago, but I totaly forgot and have been meaning to ask you! Great tip! And simple!

[ima scrapper]

Great tip as always, Ange! I didn't get it to work until I checked the "Colorize" box, then it worked like a charm!

Here's another tip: I've subscribed to this forum so I get an email every time you send one out. Wouldn't want to miss even one! Then, I copy & paste the tip into a text document I created with Notepad named Ange's Tip Tuesday. It's filed in my Tutorials folder. Can't tell ya how many times I've gone back to check those out! :D

[angedawn]

Imascrapper...

Thank you so much for addding in that "colorize" part. lol! I kind of spaced that step didn't I! (yesterday was kind of an off day for me ... lol!) Anyway, glad you are enjoying the forum! :)


Tiff...

it is so simple isn't it, but it sure saves some time and headache when looking for a color.

[emmyscraps]

I always wondered why when I clicked on "colorize" that it turned my element brown. It's not brown, I just have to adjust the lightness and staturation, but it gives me the right hue. Thanks Ange!

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4/emmyscraps/mypic.jpg

[scrappinsweetie]

This is a great tip! thanks for sharing it!

[jendigiscrap]

I've totally wondered how to do this, especially for all the new frames, but never took the time to figure it out. Now that I know I've used this trick so many times! :) Thanks for the tip!

[carolbaryl]

HOLY COW!!! I have wanted to know how to recolor stuff forever. Thank you, Thank YOu, THANK YOU!!! I just came across this forum category and am learning soo much. I Love the tip about subscribing to it!
thanks again,
carol

[happyrobyn]

Great tip! Thank you so much ... off to play with my new skill!