I'm not certain whether this question should be asked in the Web Design category of this forum, or in the Photographic category, but as I am encountering this problem while attempting to create a logo for my website, this category seemed the logical choice. Please move if necessary.
I recently purchased and downloaded a tree vector graphic from a well known stock photography site. The tree design is a mostly single shade of green for trunk, branches and root system, with the leaves an assortment of green, yellow, red, and blue shades.
What I would like is to make the entire tree one single dark shade of mauve, and then to pick out a few individual leaves in specific red, blue and yellow shades so as to match the color scheme of my website.
To this end I have been using the color replacement tool in Photoshop to color the tree mauve. The problem is that using this tool I seem unable to achieve just one single shade of mauve over the entire tree, as the original underlying colors apparently affect the new dark mauve replacement color, making it a lighter shade over the green trunk, branches and root system, with the darker shades of mauve only appearing where the underlying leaves are perhaps red, blue, yellow.
After much frustration and then some research I have come to realize that Photoshop is taking my new chosen shade of dark mauve, mixing it with the original underlying color so as to create a totally new shade.
I also discovered that when trying to make a green leaf red, that retouching with red makes an unwanted color, and that only by picking colors at random and adding them in trial and error was I was able to create a red tone, although not necessarily the shade I'd like.
Is there any quick way for me to make the entire tree just one chosen shade of dark mauve, regardless of the original underlying colors and without me having to mess around for endless hours and possibly end up no nearer to a solution?
If no, is there any program I can use that will allow me to enter the starting color rgba or # code of let's say the green color of the trunk, branches and root system of my tree vector, together with the shade I would like to change it to, and for it to tell me the necessary color to add in order to achieve this, or, a table of information that details what color to add to an existing color in order to create a totally new shade?
If no again, would I be able to complete this task any more successfully in Gimp, Fireworks, or any other program you can think of?
I hope all this makes sense, and that someone is able to offer me some constructive advice.
I recently purchased and downloaded a tree vector graphic from a well known stock photography site. The tree design is a mostly single shade of green for trunk, branches and root system, with the leaves an assortment of green, yellow, red, and blue shades.
What I would like is to make the entire tree one single dark shade of mauve, and then to pick out a few individual leaves in specific red, blue and yellow shades so as to match the color scheme of my website.
To this end I have been using the color replacement tool in Photoshop to color the tree mauve. The problem is that using this tool I seem unable to achieve just one single shade of mauve over the entire tree, as the original underlying colors apparently affect the new dark mauve replacement color, making it a lighter shade over the green trunk, branches and root system, with the darker shades of mauve only appearing where the underlying leaves are perhaps red, blue, yellow.
After much frustration and then some research I have come to realize that Photoshop is taking my new chosen shade of dark mauve, mixing it with the original underlying color so as to create a totally new shade.
I also discovered that when trying to make a green leaf red, that retouching with red makes an unwanted color, and that only by picking colors at random and adding them in trial and error was I was able to create a red tone, although not necessarily the shade I'd like.
Is there any quick way for me to make the entire tree just one chosen shade of dark mauve, regardless of the original underlying colors and without me having to mess around for endless hours and possibly end up no nearer to a solution?
If no, is there any program I can use that will allow me to enter the starting color rgba or # code of let's say the green color of the trunk, branches and root system of my tree vector, together with the shade I would like to change it to, and for it to tell me the necessary color to add in order to achieve this, or, a table of information that details what color to add to an existing color in order to create a totally new shade?
If no again, would I be able to complete this task any more successfully in Gimp, Fireworks, or any other program you can think of?
I hope all this makes sense, and that someone is able to offer me some constructive advice.