I was messing around with CS2 and I came across the color replacement tool. I know How did I not know about this, truth is I use to be a person that didnt like to really try new stuff on the comp since last time i didnt i screwed it up big time but anyways I was trying it out and its pretty sweet but i was wondering is there a way to make the colors darker than. ex. I try to change the color of a yellow car to a dark red and it comes out as a light pinkish color. I try to change the color to white and it comes out as this greyish color. Does anyone know how to fix this or am I missing the real reason this tool is used. I noticed that it fits the shapes of everything and gets darker or lighter with light but is there a way to make it the actual color you want and still have those effects happen?

Here is what someone else that I know did...they found a pic did the same thing as I did and got a different result...His is on the left Mine is on the right


Here is another example of what I was trying to do With the plain old red color



And than I tried it on Woody but with a bright Green

He came out perfectly fine just the way I wanted it.


Soooo what is your theroy on why I can not get the right colors expect for the bright green on woody? Please help I really like this tool and would love it if it would work right for me

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Actually for effects like these you can most easily use some sort of combination of color range and hue &amp; saturation. You will create much faster and accurate details that way

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REALLY? and how would I do this or is there a tutorial around that I can follow?

Agree with spllogics, but I can make one for you if you like.

This has been an interesting thread, learned something I did not know. I too would be interested in learning the quickest way to achieve this type of change in photoshop. I think that when someone who uses the program completes the tutorial on it that we are all better off. thanks

Are you going to post a link to the tutorial here so we can all take a look?