A quick caveat is that the garment Hanna, my model on this test shoot, was wearing is beautiful, but not ideal for this sort of change, as colors don't map to all of it very well, but I was still able to overhaul the whole photo in under five minutes. I decided to use an image I like, but don't enjoy the colors of. Hue just adjusts the color of whatever you paint on (the cross in the middle of the brush is the sample point), using whatever color is your foreground. Color doesn't take into consideration the luminosity of the image and is far too heavy-handed for my tastes. With that selected, you want to change the mode from Color to Hue. The first and primary tool in this quick transformation is the aptly named Color Replacement Brush, which hides under the Brush menu (B): This can be applied to every genre of photography, and I have used it in landscape, commercial, macro, and so on. Fortunately, there's an easy way to fix this with just two tools. It doesn't matter if color theory is in play or not I can't stand bright emerald leaves behind my subject and find them oddly jarring. I don't know what it is, but beautiful, summery green foliage as a backdrop for portraits is distracting to my eye. My go-to situation with this is invariably test shoot portraits and green backgrounds. In that case, I'll either just keep the photograph in my archive without ever looking at it again, or I can alter the colors to see what else it could be. Many times, I have taken snaps and wished they were slightly different, or I have been on a test shoot with little control over wardrobe or location, like with the image below. However, not every shoot or trip out with the camera is well thought through. I'll start with what I expect to be one of the main points of contention: I prefer to get the image right in camera too. Do you have an image that should work, but doesn't? Perhaps some color alterations could transform it into something great.
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