Choosing an exact color in Photoshop and changing a photo to match

Learn how to use Curves and LAB mode for a perfect color replacement.

Make a dress the same color as a fish in Photoshop. How to get an exact color in a photograph.

Changing colors of an object in Photoshop is not that hard. But what about getting and exact color? In this tutorial Colin Smith shows how to sample the color of a fish and change a dress to the identical color. Combining the power of curves and LAB mode make this difficult sounding task easy. This is an advanced topic, but presenting in a very simple way that anyone can do.

This is one of those tasks that sounds easy enough until you try to do it. You are given a color and then need to change something in a photo to match that color. Good news! You have come to the right tutorial. You will learn

How to sample colors in Photo
How to replace color using the info Panel
How to use LAB color mode in Photoshop
How to use Curves in LAB mode to affect color.

I’m sure you will enjoy this one. Here are links to related tutorial to make this a bit easier if these concepts are new to you

How to use Curves in Photoshop

How to use LAB color in Photoshop

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