Enhancing one color only in a picture- how to?

[Jeff54]

I have a picture (bitmap) that I would like to enhance one color only. Can it be done and how? I have tried to paint it using colors but it is to fake looking. Thank you!

[Myrddin]

Good greetings Jeff54.

To adjust the one colour channel, you have Curves and Levels at your disposal (http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/Curves.html, http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/Levels.html, respectively).

If, however, you want to change, say, only the red coloured pixels (as opposed to the red channel on the whole image), you can select every red pixel by the Magic Wand - with the Global flood mode - to select all similar pixels within the tolerance range.

You can read more on the latter option here: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/MagicWand.html

Do say if either is what you're looking for.

[Curmudgeon]

Conditional Hue/Saturation would be my first choice, but the other options Myrddin offered would work as well...all depends on what you're comfortable with

[yellowman]

I use the Color Mixer plugin for this purpose it gives me excellent result.

[Jeff54]

Thanks for the tips, I will let you know how it goes!

[Jeff54]

All,

the tips work great!!!! I first lasso'd the color I wanted to enhance and then used level, curve, hue/saturation which gave me a rough but great improvement. I will continue to refine my result and deeply appreciate your help. Thanks!!!!!

Jeff