Using the Color Replacement tool
The Color Replacement tool simplifies replacing specific colors in your image. You can paint over a targeted color--for example, a person's red eyes in an image--with a corrective color.
Note: The Color Replacement tool doesn't work in images in Bitmap, Indexed, or Multichannel color modes.
Red eyes repaired using the Color Replacement tool
To use the Color Replacement tool:
- Select the Color Replacement tool
. - Choose a brush tip in the options bar. Generally, you'll want to keep the blending mode set to Color (see Setting options for painting and editing tools).
- For the Sampling option, choose one of the following:
- Continuous to sample colors continuously as you drag
- Once to replace the targeted color only in areas containing the color that you first click
- Background Swatch to erase only areas containing the current background color
- For the Limits option, select one of the following:
- Discontiguous to replace the sampled color wherever it occurs under the pointer
- Contiguous to replace colors that are contiguous with the color immediately under the pointer
- Find Edges to replace connected areas containing the sampled color while better preserving the sharpness of shape edges
- For tolerance, enter a percentage value (ranging from 0 to 255) or drag the slider. Choose a low percentage to replace colors very similar to the pixel you click, or raise the percentage to replace a broader range of colors.
- To define a smooth edge to the areas you correct, select Anti-aliased.
- Choose a foreground color to use to replace the unwanted color.
- Click the color you want to replace in the image.
- Drag in the image to replace the targeted color.