[ozan]

hi. inspite of my last whiney post, i hope someone will help with this technical issue. i am applying for a job at a commercial photo studio and they want me to be able to do a small number of things really well. this is one that has stumped me, i've looked all through my manual, the help files etc.

it�a a simple task. I need to be able to change the color of an object in a photo to a specific set of cmyk percentages. I think it�s called �color critical�. For instance, I have a photo of an orange shirt. now, I also have a specific color of green fabric that I plan to use to make other shirts of the same style. I need a photo of the green shirt even though I have not made the shirt yet. and this image needs to perfectly match what the green shirt will eventually look like. see what I mean?

of course I want to preserve the values in the photo of the shirt, the wrinkles and shadows. but it also must match the color perfectly. it there a process that will work regardless of the color and value of the original photo? this sort of thing is done all the time for catalog work so I figured there must be an industry method for this. does anyone here know what it is?

if someone has an idea i would really love to hear it. thanks.
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ozan

[B0b]

*cough*

select the object using path tool/lasso, feather the selection to the required pixel radius and then Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation (ctrl/cmd+U) move the sliders and use the info box to make sure your CMYK are the same

whats the address of this studio?

[B0b]

hooza the forum is back

here's a quick manipulation of a red farrari i took back in nov

[Odds]

Yep, CTRL+U will do the trick. Good luck with that job of yours.

[ozan]

okay, thanks for the replies.

bob, i am familiar with ctrl -u, and -m, and -l. i asked this question because i thought there might be a perfect way to do this. but im finding that it requires a lot of eyeball. and if you were to give a photo and a new cmyk color to 2 different people they might come up with different looking results. because the shirt, or whatever, is not flat and it's representation on the screen is made up of many different value levels and perhaps slight color variations. so pointing the eyedropper at a number of pixels on your ferarri will give you a number of cmyk percentages. i thought there might be an industry standard way to do this. one that anyone could apply and get the same results given one photo and one new set of ink levels.

"where's the studio?" - har har

but thanks anyway, i think i've got it down now.
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