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[Painter1]

Hi members,

Newbie question:

A coloured, shaded object has any number of individual colours.

How can I make a simple colour change (swap) but retain all the shading (gradient?) properties?


Thanks,

Painter1

[pdnnoob]

Change the hue using the "hue and saturation" adjustment

OR

If you only want to change one color at a time, use the "Conditional Hue/Saturation" adjustment plugin

[rafroller]

Ok, in fact it' s something quite easy. Just follow what I did:

Let' s say I' ve got a red to blue linear gradient and I want to replace the blue part by green.

1st: select all (ctrl+A) and copy it (ctrl+C)



then with the recoloring tool set at 50%, and the green you want as the primary color and the blue as the secondary color, just pass over all the image.



With the magic wand tool set at 50%, click somewhere in the red part and hit delete.



On a new layer under the first one, paste (ctrl+V) what you' ve copied before.



Then on the first layer, apply a blur of 200 (that' s what I did but you can do it with less)



Then it' s finished. Hope I helped you.

Edited by rafroller, 16 June 2012 - 08:19 PM.

[Painter1]

"If you only want to change one color at a time, use the "Conditional Hue/Saturation" adjustment plugin"

I downloaded "EOEffects.dll" but after relaunching Paint.net I did not see "Conditional Hue/Saturation" in any of the drop-down menus.

[Painter1]

Thanks for your help!

[pdnnoob]

I downloaded "EOEffects.dll" but after relaunching Paint.net I did not see "Conditional Hue/Saturation" in any of the drop-down menus.

it's in the adjustments menu (in case you hadn't found it)
Always happy to help!

[Painter1]

it's in the adjustments menu (in case you hadn't found it)
Always happy to help!

I see the standard Hue/Saturation adjustment. No mention of Conditional settings.

[pdnnoob]

You need to download and install the plugin here