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Highway Help   Auntie Digi

Goodness me my dears, is it that time again? Auntie Digi has been so busy this last month, practically up to her elbows with PC inners. RAMs, readers and drives and all sorts of other funny stuff. I think a new PC will have to go on my Christmas wish list!

Now I know some of you dearies have been busy experimenting with Photoshop, one version or another and discovering how to change colour. Typical of us females isn't it? Never satisfied, unless we have it in all the colours of the rainbow. So, we shall chat about a couple of ways to achieve a different colour this month my loves?

We will use Photoshop Elements for this dearies, as I have it to hand, but you can do the same in most of the newer versions of Photoshop and no doubt many other similar types of software.

Firstly open up a paper or whatever it is you want to recolour. A word of advice from Aunty here, this works best with solid colours, but experiment away… Here I have a background paper from that very nice Handmaid Designs lady, but I don't want burnt orange I want purple.

So as the pic below shows, you pop into your Enhance menu and click on the Adjust Colour option and for this first example we will choose Adjust Hue/Saturation. Make sure you have the shade you want set as your foreground colour. Tick the wee box that says colourise and you will see the paper magically change colour. Now it may not be quite the shade you were expecting so play about with the sliders for saturation and lightness until you get the shade you want. Then say OK and remember to save the paper under a different name so you don't overwrite the original!  

For the other method you choose Colour Variations from the Adjust Colour menu. This is a lot of fun my dears, as you can play to your heart's content with adding more red, blue or green, going lighter or darker. I changed my orange to a nice bright lime green. Again when you have the shade you like click OK and save as a different name, so you don't mess up the original. 

So many ways to change colour. That is just a quick hint for you! I wish it would work for lipstick and nail polish, don't you my dears? Think what fun that would be!! Oh well, you go off and play and I must go back to my PC… I'm sure that bit went there! See you next month my luvvies, ready for some Christmas fun.