It is found in the Toolbar below the Lasso tool if you use the single-column layout. It worked very well for this image because the shirt is tonally distinct from the areas surrounding it. Introducing the Quick Selection Toolīut CS3 has a wonderful new Quick Selection tool. If the Magic Wand wouldn’t isolate the area well, I would have used my favorite method of painting the selection directly in Quick Mask mode which I discussed in the tutorial “Virtual Fill Flash” and which I have used in many of the tutorials here). Before CS3 I would have first tried the Magic Wand tool, then polished the selection in Quick Mask mode. Marcia had already done the basic adjustments to the image so I opened it in Photoshop and went to work selecting the shirt. If you use a Mac substitute Cmd for Ctrl and Option for Alt. Of course menus will be different in different programs and versions, and I’m speaking Windows here. You can use earlier versions of Photoshop and you may be able to use a different image editor, but you’ll need one that allows adjustment layers with layer masks.

I’m using the brand-new (and wonderful!) Adobe Photoshop CS3. I love that kind of flexibility because I often want to make small changes when I go back and look at an image some time after the initial work. I like this method because the mask (the selection) can be tweaked to perfection after the adjustment is made, and the adjustment itself can also be tweaked at any time because it is on a separate layer above the image itself.

If I select the shirt I can then use that selection to mask a Hue and Saturation adjustment layer set to Colorize. The challenge? How do you change the color without affecting the underlying tonalities of the folds in the fabric.Īs with everything in Adobe Photoshop there are several ways to do this, but my favorite is the one I think is the simplest.

She wanted to change the color of the shirt to something that looked a bit more rustic. A friend, Marcia Hart, showed me this image she shot in Mexico.

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