Adjust Colors in Photoshop Elements

Have you ever wanted to change the color of an object in Photoshop Elements? Or if you already know how, do you want to separate a certain part of the image so you could color it correctly? To answer the first question there are a variety of methods. The one I used here involved the Adjust Hue/Saturation tool (found in the Enhance Menu, under Adjust Color, or CTRL+U should bring up this menu). The other way is simply using the brush tool, set to overlay, and to brush over it. Usually though, the colors comes out bad, so I always find Hue/Saturation to work best.

There are several options you can do. If you notice, near the top of the menu, there is setting called Master. What this means is that when you change a setting then the entire picture will change. You can make it more specific and have just the blues, red, greens, etc change by picking the appropriate option.

Below that on the menu there are three options. Hue is first. You will notice there are two color bars near the bottom. When you move Hue, the bottom color bar will move. Let's say the purple goes underneath the orange. That means that all oranges will now be purple.

There is also saturation, which tells the program how little or how much of the color to put in, and lightness does as it sounds and makes the color either lighter or darker depending.

You can easily enough mess around with this and make it the color you are looking for. However, let's take my picture for example. You'll notice I made the rose blue. Yet, if you just move Hue over until red is blue, you will find several roses in the background change to blue as well. How did I isolate just the rose? Good question, and an easy answer.

To isolate a certain portion of the picture, I used the Lasso tool. All you have to do is trace around the edge, and once you are finished that area will be selected. I then changed red to blue and viola, a blue rose.

If you look closely, you notice that the edges are still red, why did I keep the image like that? That is to show you how accurate you have to be with the lasso tool. If you make a mistake it could ruin the entire picture, so make sure you trace well and don't leave any areas untraced.

All it takes is a little movement and you can easily change colors around. Have fun with it, and make something crazy.