RESIZE LAYER PIXLR PRO

To become a pro at this, you’ll want to experiment with tolerance and brush sizes, but even if you’re not a pro, use your always-handy undo functionality when you need it.Looking back at 1982 in music, the headline is obvious: Thriller Sells A Bajillion Copies, Becomes World’s Biggest Album.

For the reflection on my hand, I lowered the tolerance and eyeballed a shade of blue that seemed right.Ĥ. For my highlights, I sampled a bluish tone that I thought matched the strength of the highlights and painted my highlights blue. For more complex images, you’ll need to resample highlight colors and shadows and even reflections as I have in my image. For flat areas of color, you may only need to do one clean swipe and change the color. As you re-color, keep in mind that you can use the Alt key (Command on Mac) to bring up the eyedropper and choose another color. Un-click when you are done painting or want to reposition your mouse.ģ. Start painting the new color onto the area you want to see change by clicking and holding your mouse while you paint. Adjust your tolerance if you think it’s necessary. You can use the color selector to pull up color palettes and choose a new color, or you can hold down the Alt key (Command key on Mac) to bring up the eyedropper and sample a color directly from your image.Ģ. You’ll see your brush, which you can resize if you want. Select the color replace tool from the toolbar and mouse over your image. The bottle is made of glass so it has highlights and shadows and even some reflection of green light onto my hand, but it’s still a pretty easy job to tackle.ġ. I want to change the color of the entire bottle from green to blue. That way, if you mess up or aren’t happy with the end result, you can easily delete the new-color layer and try again. Pro tip: Some people are more comfortable duplicating a layer and working on that layer when replacing a color. Select a high tolerance for areas with shadows and texture that you want to paint ove more broadly. Select a low tolerance for more detail-oriented work or to be picky about isolating a very specific color. You can control how picky or particular this process is by altering the tolerance. How? It all depends on the tolerance level you choose. What is really great about Pixlr’s color replace tool is that you can “color outside the lines” in a seemingly sloppy way with a large brush, but your new color will still be applied within the lines. It takes a little more skill to change a more complex area, but you can accomplish it by separately changing the midtones, shadows, and highlights in a careful way to ensure your color change looks very realistic. It’s very easy to change the color of a flat area of color. You can re-sample your replacement color at any time and paint over those highlights with an appropriate color - which will again preserve the tone of that specific area. Consequently, as you paint you may notice that your highlights aren’t changing color. Any color you change will not affect the midtones, shadows, or highlights. So, if you prefer to watch a video, give this a look:Īn important detail to understand is that this tool will preserve the tone of the area you’re painting. While you can read this article to get all the details down, we made a video tutorial for this that covers the same ground. In this way, it ensures an even color change as you move your brush around because it is continuously sampling the area as you move your brush around. It samples the pixels of the color immediately under your cursor and applies changes that are similar to that color within the radius of your brushstroke. Simply put, the tool will replace the original color with a color you choose. Hopefully, we can clear up any confusion. It’s a powerful but often misunderstood tool. There are lots of reasons to change a color, and this is one of Pixlr Editor‘s most popular tools. Maybe you want that photo of you as a teenager in your Sunday best to show you with a red scarf and not that ugly old brown one you can’t believe you wore back then. Maybe you want your photo of blueberries to become red berries.

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