Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

[jamessteel Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jamessteel]

Hi all,

I call upon the wiser minds once again for some guidance.

A client has asked me to recolor a wall to match the color of a table cloth. It is a shade of green.

I've tried adjusting the hue using masks to no avail and I've tried a brush on low flow and opacity but, as I expected, using a brush kills the texture in the wall.

If I wanted to recolor the wall do I have to paint over it and recreate the gradients myself using curves or is there an easier workaround that I'm just not aware of? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you guys!

(what I'm posting is just a segment of the image)

[Bretouchers Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bretouchers]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

This is how I would go about doing it. I created a new layer on top of the base layer. Then sampled the color of the table cloth. Grabbed the paint brush and painted away. Then under layer mode you choose color. Of course, in this sample the mask isnt perfect, as I did it in 5 min but you get the idea.

[jamessteel Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jamessteel]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

This is how I would go about doing it. I created a new layer on top of the base layer. Then sampled the color of the table cloth. Grabbed the paint brush and painted away. Then under layer mode you choose color. Of course, in this sample the mask isnt perfect, as I did it in 5 min but you get the idea.

That works pretty well.

Thank you for the suggestion!

[Bretouchers Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bretouchers]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Always here to help

[jamessteel Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jamessteel]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Always here to help

Any idea why the color comes out so much lighter? Almost yellowish? Same thing happens to me. Any way to get a more true color representation?

[Bretouchers Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bretouchers]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Use Adjustment layers to fix that issue. I would use the curves to darken and color balance adjustment layer to bring in some green. You may have to play with it a bit. Make sure these adjusment layers ONLY affect that layer in PS by masking or hitting the " Cllip" button in the properties tab.

[jamessteel Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jamessteel]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Use Adjustment layers to fix that issue. I would use the curves to darken and color balance adjustment layer to bring in some green. You may have to play with it a bit. Make sure these adjusment layers ONLY affect that layer in PS by masking or hitting the " Cllip" button in the properties tab.

I was thinking of doing that. Just gave it another try and it gave acceptable results. Thanks again

[Aladdin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Aladdin]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Here you go...

I used 1 adjustment layer, HS, I attached the settings.

[jamessteel Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jamessteel]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Here you go...

I used 1 adjustment layer, HS, I attached the settings.

I like this too! I feel like I lose more texture this way though.

[Wolfman Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Wolfman]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Used Bretoucher's method and darkened the new color a little to closer match table cloth.

[jamessteel Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jamessteel]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Used Bretoucher's method and darkened the new color a little to closer match table cloth.

like it a lot. did u use curves or?

[Aladdin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Aladdin]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

I like this too! I feel like I lose more texture this way though.

There is no way you lose texture. How? only hue and lightness manipulated.

[Bretouchers Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bretouchers]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Nice work Wolfman! You can call me Oscar btw Beautyretouchers is the name of my site. Check it out!

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[edgework Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close edgework]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Curves, schmurves. Darken this, lighten that. Work smart, guys, not hard.

A gradient map gives you one stop shopping. You sample the original colors in the table cloth and map them as you wish to the wall.

[Tony W Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tony W]

Re: Recoloring a wall, maintaining realism

Or try using Lab to match colour precisely and blend if to bring back the underlying image where contaminated plus a small amount of manual mask painting - quick and easy fix