Has it ever happened to you that you wanted to change the color of an area of your image? For example, the color of the sky in a landscape or the color of a dress? Today I am going to explain step by step how to match the color between two images in Photoshop.
We have these two photos and we want to change the color of the light blue dress to the blue on the right.
Match the color step by step
1. open both images that you have chosen in Photoshop. To do this go to File > Openyou select the two images and both are opened in two windows.
two. select the color you want, good with the tool Ribbon or with Quick Selection. In this case it is the blue color.
3. You select the dress you want to change the colorthis time with greater precision, paying close attention to the edges and making sure that nothing more or less is selected.
4. From the window of the image that we want to modify, in this case, the one with the girl from behind, open the menu Image > Adjustments > Match Color.
5. Inside the dialog box that opens choose, in Sourcethe image from where you want to take the color. I have titled it «Color-origin», you can title yours whatever you want, but in the thumbnail on the right you can confirm that it is the correct photograph.
In this same dialog box match color you have the options luminance and color intensity, that I have indicated with the arrows, adjust them until you find the result that seems most natural to you or that best corresponds to what you are looking for.
If it is easier for you to see it you can remove the selection (Ctrl/command+H).
Below you can see the original image and the final image. The more precision in the selection, the better result you will get, of course, this is just an example.
- original image
- Final image after color change
Other Color Matching Applications
Other possible applications They are, for example, changing the color of a facade, a sofa, the color of a flower, a sky, a car, etc. Any object or element that comes to mind, yes, the key is in naturalness.
If it is very obvious, it will not look good, so it is important that you make a good selection and adjust the parameters so that everything is integrated into the photograph.
Easy, right? Perhaps the most difficult thing is to achieve a very precise selection. But if you want us to explain how to achieve it, you just have to leave it in the comments ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
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