Photoshop Replace Color (Textiles)

Beware: the textiles, garment and furniture industries are very particular about matching fabric colors in color photographs. This reader wants to change the colors. That's okay, but use care.

>> I am a textile agent . i get check designing samples from market, get it scanned. now i wanna change the colours of the checks. there r eight colours , i wanna change one similar colour to other , 2nd colour to other and etc please help<<
Submitted by: shanti nahata using photoshop 7 with windows 98

Here's the best way...

PS 911 Team says:
These are dangerous waters. The textile market is very picky about color. We've had a lot of experience with the furniture industry in the Carolinas, and those people demand perfection when it comes to matching colors.

If you must, use the "Replace Color" function:

Go to Image > Adjustments > Replace Color.
In the dialog box, select the color with the pickers that you want to change. You can add and subtract from the selection using the plus and minus eyedropper tool.

Then go to Transform sliders at the bottom and choose the Hue, Saturation and Lightness of the new color you want as the replacement.

Be Careful:

1. Replace Color uses Hue, Saturation, and Lightness sliders.

Forget about RGB or CMYK values. Set up your Info palette to read out in HSB values and take a reading of your scanned swatch, or the target color then make a note of the HSB values. Then while you are in the Replace Color mode keep a sharp eye on the Info palette -- it will tell you when you have a match.

TIPS:
1. Draw a loose selection around the general area where the colors are to be changes. This protects other areas of the overall image where you may not want that color changed.

2. Start with a very low "Fuzziness" setting and gradually increase it. Pay close attention to the mask thumbnail (these are called "proxies") in the palette.

3. Photoshop cs users can use the "Replace Color Tool" hiding behind the Healing Brush. With that you simply sample the color, and begin painting.

From Photoshop 911 Case #04028; kolkata, west bengal, india

Comments

[Lea]

Hey!
I have tried to use the method for color replacement mentioned at the very beginning, but I can't seem to get it to work. The color becomes lighter when I use the colour replacement tool. I need it to be exactly the color of my pantone swatch. Does anybody know have to fix that. When I use the other method the colors look very fake. Please help!

[hanae]

Dear Non,
He emailed me after I bought his book, so I asked him some questions, and he sent me pdf file on color reduction. It was great! I'm supposed to get the book today, so I'm going to start studying. Thanks for your advice.

[Non]

PS buying his book was the right thing to do
Non

[Non]

Dear Hanae,
I suggest you contact Frederick directly. If you go to his web-sight www.designtextile.com there is a link with his e-mail. He has 4 or 5 color reduction techniques in his book so you will have to contact him so he can guide you in the right direction. I had a similar problem & he helped me out generousely. Please post again & let me know if he was able to help you.
Non

[Hanae]

I'm trying to reduce colors, separating them, and change colors on photoshop, but I'm new to do this on Photoshop. I just ordered "Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design", but till I get it,Can anyone tell me where to start to do this? I'm used to use software called AVA, but my new work only uses photoshop...

[Frederick C]

Dear Nazeer,
Have you checked out software called GIMP. It's a free program that has many of the same features as Photoshop. Take note that Photoshop is by far the more powerful, flexible & stable program however GIMP is still a wonderful program and it's free. Also take note that a technique that takes 1 or 2 steps in Photoshop may take 5 or 6 steps in GIMP. You can learn more about GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/
Thanks,
Frederick C

[snazeer]

sir i nazeer from india at present iam studying photoshop i want meterials like and cd about photoshop textiles sir iam poor my parent is not havin sufficent monoy sir kindly help me to sent meterials to me for free schme thanking youmy

my adress
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[K. Marks]

? I did't say anything about tonal prints

[vi_1]

I am using this book 'Textile Design Using Adobe Photoshop' by Ellen Oster. And i agree with K.Marks this book is better for textile designers who is working with tonal prints.

[Sandy Cohen]

My company hired Frederick last summer for a seminar. He knows his subject through & through. I suggest you contact him directly. Go to his websight for his email. He'll bend over backwards for you. A few of the people who took Fredericks seminar had taken classes on this subject before & didn't really understand it until they took his class. I personally left the class feeling confident & competent.

[Meghan Moser]

I will be teaching a Photoshop for Textile Design course this fall at The University of Georgia. I already have purchased Chipkin's book. I am looking to take a summer workshop or short course. Does anyone have any suggestions on class offerings? Thank you!

[Sang Ko]

Wow! it worked! I've been trying to solve this problem like forever. I don't have your book yet but I have the Origin H,S,B color charts on a disk at the place I'm freelancing at. It's hard to freelance & match colors on someone elses system all the time. You just made my job alot easier. Thanks Frederick for being the only one to actually answer the question.
Sang

[Frederick L Chipkin]

Note: On the Technique below you must first print out the color chart with the HSB colors. You find the color you want to match to from this printed out chart. The dot you draw on the screen will not look the same on the screen but will match the color chart when it is printed out. Therefore the tones of the layer that you tint should also match tones on the color chart when printed out.
Thanks again,
Frederick Chipkin
www.designtextile.com

[Frederick Chipkin]

Simply tinting a layer to the color in the Foreground color box is a haphazard thing. The following is one of several techniques for matching the tones in a layer to a single color. You should be working in the RGB color mode for this technique to work.
1. Open up your design and separate a layer with a lasso tool via cut (Layer→ New → Layer via Cut). Your new layer is Layer 1.
2. On a HSB color chart (you can use the one found in Color Charts "A La Carte" by Frederick L Chipkin or found on the CD included with the book Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design also by Fredrick L Chipkin or create your own chart) find a color that you would like to match to. Click on the Foreground color box and enter the H,S,B values of the color you had just found on the chart then click OK.
3. Click on the create a new layer icon on the bottom of the Layers palette and create a new layer.
4. On top of the layer you just made (Layer 2) make a very large dot with your pencil tool (make your pencil size about 200).
5. Select Layer 1 on the Layers palette (make sure it’s highlighted).
6. Click on Image, drag down to Adjustments, then drag over to Hue/Saturation.
7. Put a check in the box next to the word Colorize.
8. Play with the sliders under the words Hue, Saturation and Lightness until the some of the colors in your layer match the color of the dot on Layer 2.
9. After your layer is tinted don’t forget to throw your layer with the dot away (drag Layer 2 to the trash can on the bottom of your Layers palette).
This is not a exact science. You will have to practice this technique in order to get good at it. Try practicing this by making multiple layers and tinting them different colors.
I hope this was a help,
Frederick Chipkin author of Adobe Phothoshop for Textile Design Copyright 2001-2006 Origin inc. All rights reserved.

[K. Marks]

A book just came out that is clearer and more concise than 'Textile Design Using Adobe Photoshop' by Ellen Oster. It's called "Rendering Fashion, Fabric, and Prints with Adobe Photoshop" by M. Kathleen Colussy and Steve Greenberg (both CAD instructors). It's about a 60 bucks at:
Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Photoshop

[Eugene]

A book just came out that is clearer and more concise than Chipkin's 'Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design'. It's called 'Textile Design Using Adobe Photoshop' by Ellen Oster. It's about a 100 bucks and can be purchased off of amazon.com or at www.textilecadbooks.com

[Sandy Cohen]

The propper e-mail address for Photoshop for textile design is www.designtextile.com . The book Photoshop in textile design is not the same book (in quality or substance). This crazy guy "Mujahid Islam" (is his name a joke too?) is sticking his advertisement on Fredericks message board page. The administrator should take Muhamads messages off this page because they are misleading.
Thanks
Sandy C

[Sasha J]

To all,
My norton Antivirus detected a virus when trying to load Mujahid Islams page. Be carefull.

[Andrew]

Just got a copy of Adobe Photoshop for Textile design. Found it very usefull (colorings repeats ect.)
Thankyou Alex
Andrew

[Alex]

There is a book "Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design" by Frederick Chipkin which covers this subject in a way that is applicable to the textile and fashion industry. The technique in the book is different from what you described above and it's very accurate.