Pimp my locomotive

cletus

Starting off with this:


I used the pen tool to create a vector mask for a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Adjusting sliders to taste:


If anyone cares to play around with this image you can click on the original for a full size copy, and here is a link to a full size mask that might be helpful.

jfriend

No mask needed

cletus wrote:

I used the pen tool to create a vector mask for a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Adjusting sliders to taste:

Because this image contains such a simple set of colors, I thought it was an interesting candidate for a color change without any masks. So, I converted to LAB and applied a curve on the A channel (which is where the red is strong). I got this result:



By applying this curve with no masks:


I would guess that this image could be manipulated without a mask in other ways using things like selective color, etc... but I didn't try those methods.

Just thought I'd share. I love to avoid a mask whenever possible.

jfriend

Using selective color

cletus wrote:

I used the pen tool to create a vector mask for a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Adjusting sliders to taste:

Here's one done using selective color in RGB mode targetting just the reds.



With this selective color setting and no mask:

cletus

jfriend wrote:

I love to avoid a mask whenever possible.

Me too!

I just happened to use this image for practice with the pen tool.

Andy

Damn kids. Look what they did to your choo-choo

cletus

Andy wrote:

Damn kids. Look what they did to your choo-choo

Sweet! lol3

jfriend

It looks like chapter 4 is coming

cletus wrote:

Me too! I just happened to use this image for practice with the pen tool.

Ahhh, I get it. You're working on sample images for your chapter 4 writeup on the pen tool. Cool!

Andy

cletus wrote:

Sweet! lol3

BTW, it was RGB select color range, then apply color gradient. Clone away the Katy, and slap on Cletus