Paint Shop Pro support - PSP7 Color Replace Shading

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PSP7 Color Replace Shading

2004-09-28, 12:22 pm

Hi,

I'm using PSP7.

I have screen dumped some text in a good looking font.
Its in grey scale...

I want to color in various letters in different colors.

I've tried color replacer, which I can easily replace the black with another
color.

But theres lots of grey-to-white colors.

Is there any way I replace black and greys into red and pinks (or blue and
light blues), easily?

Thanks in advance.

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JZ

2004-09-28, 12:22 pm

Well I've found the tolerance setting, which at least changes more dark grey
colors.

I might just live with that...

--
JZ

Kris Zaklika

2004-09-28, 12:22 pm

JZ wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PSP7.
>
> I have screen dumped some text in a good looking font.
> Its in grey scale...
>
> I want to color in various letters in different colors.
>
> I've tried color replacer, which I can easily replace the black with another
> color.
>
> But theres lots of grey-to-white colors.
>
> Is there any way I replace black and greys into red and pinks (or blue and
> light blues), easily?

Use the Color to Target retouch tool. You can't change black
to pink without lightening the black first. This is because
pink is a light color. Pink, red and maroon vary only in their
lightness, not the hue or saturation. In contrast, deep blue
is a rather dark color but still lighter than black.

> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> JZ

Fred Hiltz

2004-09-28, 7:22 pm

JZ wrote:
[snip]
> Is there any way I replace black and greys into red and pinks (or
> blue and light blues), easily?

The technique is commonly called "colorize." Adding to what Kris
wrote, try a search for that at http://www.psplinks.com/ to find
useful tutorials.
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Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com