Helen just yesterday I followed one of your photoshop for lunch videos on skillshare to learn how to do something for an assignment, and here you are again showing me how to fix today's problem! You're a prolific teacher I am so grateful for all of the classes you publish
I'm so glad! I'm glad that you learned how to do the task and also some nice little tips which can really impact your day not only doing this task but in other ways as well. Thanks for your kind comment.
Thank you for this! I just had to figure out how to make everything uniform in white for photoshop textures and this made it so much easier! Turned a full day job into a couple of minutes!
Hi, thank you so much, it's a beautiful tutorial and very easy. I do have a question tough, regarding the "whiteness" given to the car. You have opted to use the curve to set the level of whiteness. It works well with the car but not so well with a piece of wood which texture. What should i do to keep that texture? Would love to hear from you on this subject. Regards and thank you for sharing your knowledge.
One way to 'keep' texture is to take a copy of the piece you are changing the color of and make it black and white, then apply it at reduced opacity over the color changed element and blend it in with a blend mode. Basically you are looking to use the black and white version to give you back the texture. Now I haven't actually tried this but this would be where I would start. I hope this helps?
Very helpful. I figured out almost everything on my own before watching this video... but it was still looking grey. The curve was what I was doing wrong.
What if the color you’re trying to change isn’t one of the drop-down choices? For example, I’m trying to change an orange/brown cherry wood color too white.
In that case you might have to add a couple of Hue/Saturation adjustment layers to target all of the colors. If it’s orange brown you would be looking at red and yellow channels as possibly where the color is. But you’ll just need to experiment to see what combination of colors are going to let you target the color you want to remove.
What if the selection is black? I'm changing the hue/saturation but nothing is happening. Also, I tried playing around with the curves adjustment, but these are too complicated... Any tips?
I tried this on a house with siding, when I tried to turn it to white it eliminated the lines from the siding. I just cannot find a way to change a house to white without losing all of the siding lines. Just does not work for me.
For true grey to white, you probably need to us a Curves adjustment layer to try to lighten it. Because technically, grey has no 'color' so you don't need to remove a color so much as you just need to lighten the grey to make it more white. If there is color in the grey then you need to select that color so some greys are blue grey or pink grey or yellow grey so you'll want to neutralize that first.
WoW brilliant tutorial Helen! I really needed to know this👍🏻. Also just finished watching your Udemy courses on AI and they were absolutely outstanding ❤️
I know it's a stretch because this is an old video, but here goes. How could I do this on a black/dark grey car? Since I can't target specifically the black as you did with the cyan on here.
Hi. There are some points in the video where you say to do a certain keyboard shortcuts, but you never actually say what those commands do... For example, while Alt+Backspace does get the desired result as in the video, I don't actually know what the command does, like what that action is called within the program.
Mea culpa - I am so sorry. Alt + Backspace (Option + Delete on a Mac) fills the selected layer/selection with the current foreground color. If you use Control + Backspace (Command + Delete on the Mac) you fill the selected layer/selection with the current Background color. It's a quick and easy way of doing it. Please ask if there are more key combinations that I didn't explain clearly.
Try the Backspace key, so it will be Option + Backspace and see if that works. Let me know if you still have problems and, at that time, tell me what Mac you are using. On my MacBook Air it is the Delete key so I might need to do some research for you and for that I will need to know exactly what Mac you use.
@@HelenBradley i selected every bit of things i dont need to whiten and things i need to make wthite and then i made them more or less white with the brush tool and it looks pretty ok :D thanks
Helpful, but there is a problem: you don't finish the task! For a beginner like me, it would be important to see what are the final moves, how the layers are merged and saved as one image file.
What you will want to do is to save the file as a JPEG file. When you do that you don’t actually flatten the layers. You should also save the file as a PSD file so that you do save the layers in a second file. This is in case you look at the final image and decide you still want to do some work on it. You do not want to merge the layers permanently. I’m sorry that this wasn’t covered but this video is designed to complete a task not offer a complete course in Photoshop. Can I suggest that you consider taking a beginners Photoshop course to brush up on these basic skills.
I'm not sure what the issue is here. Is the car originally gray and you want to make it white? If so you might need to increase the brightness a bit. Remember that a white car is not actually white - it's going to be lots of shades of a light gray. So basically what you need to do is to lighten the color. You might be able to do this by increasing the brightness of the car.
Yep Matteo, you can totally use a layer mask on the Hue Saturation layer - either method works just fine. My method does add to the file size, you're right so, if you'd prefer to do so, go ahead and add your mask to the Hue/Saturation layer. I did it this way because it helped me explain the masking process a bit more simply for people perhaps less familiar with Photoshop. Thanks for stopping by the channel and taking the time to comment.
You can try and add a curved adjustment layer above everything and pull up on the curve line. White is always going to look a little gray-ish because pure white will be lacking in details but you should be able to lighten it up a little bit this way. If you still need help let me know?
Jack, that's a little different. Here is a video that shows this process: ua-cam.com/video/_Oapki1g3IM/v-deo.html It is based on recoloring a house, but it's the same for a car.
I tried the techniques in this video and the house video to change some kitchen cabinets to white. They just looked gray. I added multiple layers of white over top of that and adjusted the opacity and the results were ok, but not great. Is there a better technique for cabinets? Here is an example picture: ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2014/05/21/11874098/885715_584984511511887_2091981708_o.jpg
Good question Kevin, Thanks for sending an image to work with. Now I got a 'passable' result this way: First make your selection as per the video Then apply a hue/saturation adjustment - and you are right - it does look really grey. Then add a Curves adjustment layer and pull up on the curve to lighten it. Then add a white filled layer on top of everything and set its blend mode to soft light and adjust the opacity down a bit. This also needs to be clipped so select this layer and choose Layer > Create Clipping Mask. Tweak the Curves layer now to adjust the result. That gives an ok result but be aware that the image you gave me will be super difficult to work with because of the stainless steel in the kitchen which is reflecting the dark cabinets - there is a lot to do to adjust everything. Hope this helps?
This is the first time this has ever been explained in a way I understood. Great video!
Glad it was helpful!
Helen just yesterday I followed one of your photoshop for lunch videos on skillshare to learn how to do something for an assignment, and here you are again showing me how to fix today's problem! You're a prolific teacher I am so grateful for all of the classes you publish
Oh my goodness Sami. Thank you for calling by and commenting here. I am so glad you are enjoying the videos - wherever you are finding them!
Thank Helen short and clear love your tutorials many thanks
You’re welcome 😊 Happy Holidays.
Thank you very much for your help Helen, great tutorial and looking forward to watching some more of your videos soon, have a wonderful day !!
I’m so happy to hear this Richard I hope you enjoy the other videos that I have produced or at least some of them. I think there’s over 700.
the only really good answer to how to turn a colour into white, thank you!
You are so welcome!
Thoroughly enjoyed. Tips on seeing the "cyan" reflections and the adding of it to the mask were appreciated. Thanks.
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Thank you so much for this thoroughly explanation!
I am so glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant you make it look easy in tutorial, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
This was very useful thankyou!!! Now I can go design a wrap for my car yay!!! :D
Awesome! Best of luck with that.
Thank you very much you tutorial helped me a lot, not only with the objects, but with clothes too.
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You made this so easy. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Yet again.... really wonderful tutorial... a BIG THANKS to you
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I like how you explained the tricks you used along the way. Learned way more than just how to change colors to white, thanks! :D
I'm so glad! I'm glad that you learned how to do the task and also some nice little tips which can really impact your day not only doing this task but in other ways as well. Thanks for your kind comment.
this helped me so much during work! thank you!
That is wonderful news Meagan, so glad to hear it.
Blimey Helen! You make it look easy! Great tutorial, thanks.
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You are simply genius. .......
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Thank you for this! I just had to figure out how to make everything uniform in white for photoshop textures and this made it so much easier! Turned a full day job into a couple of minutes!
Yeah! Just what I love to hear!
Great tutorial! This saved me so much time for editing a stock photo of a hard hard that went from bright orange to realistic white. Thank you!
So happy to hear this.
Hi, thank you so much, it's a beautiful tutorial and very easy. I do have a question tough, regarding the "whiteness" given to the car. You have opted to use the curve to set the level of whiteness. It works well with the car but not so well with a piece of wood which texture. What should i do to keep that texture? Would love to hear from you on this subject. Regards and thank you for sharing your knowledge.
One way to 'keep' texture is to take a copy of the piece you are changing the color of and make it black and white, then apply it at reduced opacity over the color changed element and blend it in with a blend mode. Basically you are looking to use the black and white version to give you back the texture.
Now I haven't actually tried this but this would be where I would start.
I hope this helps?
Very helpful. I figured out almost everything on my own before watching this video... but it was still looking grey. The curve was what I was doing wrong.
I’m glad this video helped you solve the last little problem. Thanks for letting me know.
A really helpful guide. Thank you so much for this.
Cheers Dan. Glad you enjoyed the video.
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ehy not just fill with white (solid colour) and vhange blend mode to hue or colour? then change the luminosity with curves etc
That’s a thought! Give it a go and see if it works. I’ll be interested in hearing how you go.
Is there a vid is wanting to make everything white including background. I have a colourful living room I need to make all white.
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What if the color you’re trying to change isn’t one of the drop-down choices? For example, I’m trying to change an orange/brown cherry wood color too white.
In that case you might have to add a couple of Hue/Saturation adjustment layers to target all of the colors. If it’s orange brown you would be looking at red and yellow channels as possibly where the color is. But you’ll just need to experiment to see what combination of colors are going to let you target the color you want to remove.
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What if the selection is black? I'm changing the hue/saturation but nothing is happening. Also, I tried playing around with the curves adjustment, but these are too complicated... Any tips?
I know its been a long time but I'm struggling here lol
I tried this on a house with siding, when I tried to turn it to white it eliminated the lines from the siding. I just cannot find a way to change a house to white without losing all of the siding lines. Just does not work for me.
If you want to send me your file I can have a look at it for you. Send it to helen@helenbradley.com.
What about changing a grey to white....what color to select in the pull down in the adjustment layer?
For true grey to white, you probably need to us a Curves adjustment layer to try to lighten it. Because technically, grey has no 'color' so you don't need to remove a color so much as you just need to lighten the grey to make it more white. If there is color in the grey then you need to select that color so some greys are blue grey or pink grey or yellow grey so you'll want to neutralize that first.
Helen Bradley thanks Helen it’s tricky because it’s very easy to lose definition in the image if you go too far
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WoW brilliant tutorial Helen! I really needed to know this👍🏻. Also just finished watching your Udemy courses on AI and they were absolutely outstanding ❤️
I'm glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for visiting my channel.
I know it's a stretch because this is an old video, but here goes. How could I do this on a black/dark grey car? Since I can't target specifically the black as you did with the cyan on here.
Im on the same page. Did you find a solution?
I don't have a reliable solution for turning black to colour right now.
Can i do this on multi-colors? i want to do multi-colors to same white
It won't be easy but you will need an adjustment layer for all the main colors in the image to bring them to the same 'white'.
Hi. There are some points in the video where you say to do a certain keyboard shortcuts, but you never actually say what those commands do... For example, while Alt+Backspace does get the desired result as in the video, I don't actually know what the command does, like what that action is called within the program.
Mea culpa - I am so sorry. Alt + Backspace (Option + Delete on a Mac) fills the selected layer/selection with the current foreground color. If you use Control + Backspace (Command + Delete on the Mac) you fill the selected layer/selection with the current Background color. It's a quick and easy way of doing it.
Please ask if there are more key combinations that I didn't explain clearly.
@@HelenBradley thank you for the explanation!
It’s my pleasure - you asked the question politely and I love to help when I can.
Oops, I do not see a Del button on the mac laptop keyboard to choose option-delete :( is there another key that could work? Great tutorial, love it
Try the Backspace key, so it will be Option + Backspace and see if that works. Let me know if you still have problems and, at that time, tell me what Mac you are using. On my MacBook Air it is the Delete key so I might need to do some research for you and for that I will need to know exactly what Mac you use.
Oh! and thank you.. I am glad you enjoyed the tutorial.
Thanks a lot !
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i have a grey car and i just cant make it white... im trying for 2 days and imma give up... sooo.... how you do with grey cars?
Hmmm, you probably need to use a curves adjustment to lighten it. Have you tried that?
@@HelenBradley i selected every bit of things i dont need to whiten and things i need to make wthite and then i made them more or less white with the brush tool and it looks pretty ok :D thanks
Helpful, but there is a problem: you don't finish the task! For a beginner like me, it would be important to see what are the final moves, how the layers are merged and saved as one image file.
What you will want to do is to save the file as a JPEG file. When you do that you don’t actually flatten the layers. You should also save the file as a PSD file so that you do save the layers in a second file. This is in case you look at the final image and decide you still want to do some work on it. You do not want to merge the layers permanently. I’m sorry that this wasn’t covered but this video is designed to complete a task not offer a complete course in Photoshop. Can I suggest that you consider taking a beginners Photoshop course to brush up on these basic skills.
i do everything but i cant change it from gray to white with curves
I'm not sure what the issue is here. Is the car originally gray and you want to make it white? If so you might need to increase the brightness a bit. Remember that a white car is not actually white - it's going to be lots of shades of a light gray. So basically what you need to do is to lighten the color. You might be able to do this by increasing the brightness of the car.
Hwite! Yaay
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Why don't you just use the layer mask on the hue/sat layer? It is useless to have a duplicated image, it just doubles the size with no benefit
Yep Matteo, you can totally use a layer mask on the Hue Saturation layer - either method works just fine. My method does add to the file size, you're right so, if you'd prefer to do so, go ahead and add your mask to the Hue/Saturation layer. I did it this way because it helped me explain the masking process a bit more simply for people perhaps less familiar with Photoshop. Thanks for stopping by the channel and taking the time to comment.
I tried, its still grey-ish...
You can try and add a curved adjustment layer above everything and pull up on the curve line. White is always going to look a little gray-ish because pure white will be lacking in details but you should be able to lighten it up a little bit this way. If you still need help let me know?
how about brown color? :(
Jack, that's a little different. Here is a video that shows this process: ua-cam.com/video/_Oapki1g3IM/v-deo.html
It is based on recoloring a house, but it's the same for a car.
I tried the techniques in this video and the house video to change some kitchen cabinets to white. They just looked gray. I added multiple layers of white over top of that and adjusted the opacity and the results were ok, but not great. Is there a better technique for cabinets? Here is an example picture: ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2014/05/21/11874098/885715_584984511511887_2091981708_o.jpg
Good question Kevin,
Thanks for sending an image to work with.
Now I got a 'passable' result this way:
First make your selection as per the video
Then apply a hue/saturation adjustment - and you are right - it does look really grey.
Then add a Curves adjustment layer and pull up on the curve to lighten it.
Then add a white filled layer on top of everything and set its blend mode to soft light and adjust the opacity down a bit. This also needs to be clipped so select this layer and choose Layer > Create Clipping Mask.
Tweak the Curves layer now to adjust the result.
That gives an ok result but be aware that the image you gave me will be super difficult to work with because of the stainless steel in the kitchen which is reflecting the dark cabinets - there is a lot to do to adjust everything.
Hope this helps?
@@HelenBradley Thanks a lot. That worked pretty well, better than what I had.
So glad to hear Kevin - thanks for letting me know.
good but still need some improvement.
I am glad you found it to be a good starting point.
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Very useful, thanks
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