Sometimes, we find ourselves in the unique position where we just host the perfect image. It was the perfect day with perfect skies, the perfect temperature with perfect lighting on our perfect subjects or subject matter and everything was literally just “perfect.” However, something just ruined our oh-so-perfect experience: probably a client or an editor who liked the work we did but then decided “What do you think about reshooting this one – only this time maybe the woman could be wearing something more ‘red’?”

Or, they might just say something like “WOW! What a shot! Buuuut…I’m not quite sure about that one little blue thing. You know the little blue thing I’m talking about? Yeah. I think we need to reshoot this without that little blue thing.”

Well, so, maybe “perfect” was further out of our reach that we initially believed. And, the problem is that recreating some of our shots is just out of the question – because everything else was truly perfect. There has to be a way to accommodate both us and them regarding what we want (and,...sometimes, we are that other person).

Adobe Photoshop has provided us with the perfect tool for the task of replacing one color for another. And, believe it or not, its’ actually called “Replace Color.”

Here is an example. We like this picture of a delicious chocolate cupcake. But, the icing is the wrong color. The person who wanted us to take this photo wanted purple icing on top but for some reason there was no purple icing to be found during the time of the shooting. So, we just went for it. But, again…they want purple. So, here’ what we do.

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• Create a new folder in your Digital Photography folder and call it "Replace Color"
• Download this image of the delicious cupcake
• Open Adobe Photoshop and then open the image of the delicious cupcake
• Use your pen tool and draw around just the portion with the icing. Be sure to have "Path" Selected instead of "Shape" on your control bar
  
  We really only need to worry about conforming the pen tool to the lower part of the icing because the upper part does not contain any areas of an image that we need to isolate the icing from. 
  
• Right Click on the path and choose "Make Selection"
• Now, just choose the "OK" button (do not change any of the settings)
• On the menu bar, select "Image," and then "Adjustments" and then "Replace Color." 
•  Use the eyedropper tool to select the current color of the cupcake icing. Use the Eyedropper (with the plus symbol) to grab the remaining colored portions of the icing.
• Use these settings: 
  
  
• When you are done, click on "OK."
• Save your cupcake image as Adobe Photoshop PSD file, title "Delicious Cupcake - Purple Icing" in your "Replace Color" folder

1. Shoot eight (new) different images of people, places or things  - or any combination (All eight images will be edited using this method)
2. Select an image that you shot (Let's pretend I took a picture of a Dog House) and change that color using the same technique that you used on the cupcake.
3. Save both the original and new image in your "Replace Color" folder so that your unedited image is titled (for example) "Doghouse - original" and your edited version is "Doghouse - Replaced Color"

You must have both the original photograph and the edited photograph in order for this assignment to be graded