Photoshop is your friend: Tip #7

Re-coloring Elements II

by Shirley Woodard Polk

Last time we learned how to re-color papers.  Click here to visit that lesson again.  This week I will teach you how to very simply re-color elements.  This is great on buttons, flowers, or even tags.
1. Open your item in Photoshop. I used a flower from the Cait Kit.
2. Drag your item onto your layout or a new canvas.


3. Command-click on the item’s thumbnail in the Layers palette 
4. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer).
5. With your new layer targeted, go to Edit > Fill (or use brushes, etc). Fill this layer with your chosen color.

 

6. In your Layers palette, set the blending mode of your new layer to Hue. The Hue blending mode keeps the Saturation and Luminosity of the bottom layer, but adds in the Hue (or color) of the top layer. Neat!