Recoloring Help

[Leah]

I need to recolor a stitched frame - I can start with either brown or white, but need it to end up a beige color, like hemp/twine, to finish my page. KWIM?

Can you help me? I'm struggling.

[heathergw]

what program are you using?

[Leah]

Originally Posted by heathergw

what program are you using?

CS3 - sorry I should have posted that.

[KateD]

If the stitching is the same except for the color, I'll sometimes layer the two and decrease the opacity of the top layer.

[carriesmom]

couple of options:

1. Take the brown stitches (I assume they are a darker brown), duplicate them and set blending mode on the upper set on Screen, this will lighten the stitches. Duplicate that layer until you get to the right shade and fiddle with opacity.(could be once or two or three depending depending on how light you want and how dark they are to start with.

2. Take the white stitches. Add a new layer on top of them, flood fill with your desired color. Go through the blending modes until the colors look right (I usually end up with Overlay or Soft light a lot). If you have lost the texture of the stitches doing this. Take you original stitch layer duplicate it and sandwich the fill layer between the two stitch layers. Make the top layer blending mode Overlayr and fiddle with opacity until it looks right.

Recoloring is tricky, you are going to have fiddle until it looks right. I would not attempt the Replace Color just because you are starting with black and brown. It is not going to work really well..

Easiest way is to desaturate and use the color replacement tool.