turn plaid into a solid color?

[tmarie]

is there any way to do this? i'm trying to turn a plaid scarf into a solid color. ugh!

[pixelzombie]

use a solid color fill and then dodge&burn the shadows and hl's as a starting point

[0lBaldy]

tmarie, welcome to RetouchPRO

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[TommyO]

I would go with pixelzombie's method. It certainly would be quick. The only hard part is adding back the shadows. It may be possible to grasp them from the old scarf; examine the image under LAB color mode. Examine the lightness channel and experiment with increasing contrast to build a luminosity mask that can be used to underlay the color fill layer for building shadows.