Changing the color of a bow in photoshop?

September 17th, 2012
Anybody know if you can do that? My friend has this vintage stroller and I found this gorgeous wheat field I wanted to take some pictures of my daughter at golden hour tonight, but all the hair props i have are bright pink and bright green. I'd like to down play them in the picture so they aren't so distracting. Can you change the colors of a bow or headband or skirt in adobe elements? Thanks in advance!
September 18th, 2012
You can in Photoshop by selecting the item using the lasso tool, then adjusting the "hue" slider under Hue/Saturation.

As for Elements, I'm not sure.
September 18th, 2012
Run to the dollar store! :-)
September 18th, 2012
@m9f9l lol I know right ha ha
September 18th, 2012
I have Adobe Photoshop Elements and I can with Lasso and paint bucket. Should work for the bow.
September 18th, 2012
plan to convert to b&w... i expect a sepia or a vintage preset should work great with wheat in golden hour light :)
September 18th, 2012
@meagang I don't do photoshop, but you can do it with selective colouring tools on picmonkey and ribbet... you could selectively sepia/tint them to your preferred shade? (On both you upload the photo, click on effects, then choose one of the coloured ones and the paintbrush which gives you the options) Have fun!

Found this one... there was all sorts of colour and distraction in the background so I sepia'd the bench etc, leaving my cat his original colour.
September 18th, 2012
@pschtyckque Okay thank you for your reply!

@northy Thanks Northy! I ended up just biting the bullet lol. Besides I'm trying manual mode and I'm new to it so I figure once I feel more confident then I'll go shopping for better props lol :)

@filsie65 Thank you! I'm glad you brought up picmonkey. I don't know if it's just me, but whenever I change the colors in a photo it looks great and when I go to upload the photo the colors look orange and completely saturated- way different from while I was editing. It's so frustrating lol.. does that happen to you?

@jannkc @beeblebear Thanks guys!!
September 18th, 2012


Didn't turn out to distracting.. but I'd like it better if she was in white. I don't EVER buy my kids white ha ha :) That's because my kids are messy and I am TERRIBLE at keeping up with laundry lol
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