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Hi,

On the photo below, you can see the white shirt of the girl underneat her green shirt.

Is there a way to modifiy the white shirt so that it would become the same green as the green shirt and wouldn't show through the green

Please explain your steps. Thank you very much!



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Claude Carrier
 
It may not be the best way but this how I do it:
1. Select the areas you want to hide the white shirt.
2. copy to new layer. Command J
3. add adjustment layer in selective color
4. for white or neutral color add green or other color.
Instead step 3 and 4 I also do this:

Add a new blank layer and color the areas with color. Adjust color and opacity to make it look natural.

I have done this only with white bras showing through shirt and not for as much as you need to do.

Sandy
 
First you need to adjust levels. Your image is under-exposed.

To fix the white showing through:

1. Open a blank layer and change blend mode to overlay.
2. Sample the green from a dark area of the shirt.

3. Paint over the areas where the white shows through. Use 100% brush opacity. You should have something like this:



Now double-click on that layer in the layers palette (click away from the label) to open the layer style dialog box. On the blend-if adjustments at the bottom, adjust the bottom-left slider until only the white is affected by the green. My adjustment looked like this:



If you're not familiar with blend-if adjustments, you can find lots of tutorials through Google. Here's the result after the blend-if adjustment:



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Yip there are always 10 ways to do something in PS and then there is the Peano (best) way, great tip.

Neal
 
Had to think about this one for a few minutes, and came up with this nice and easy solution.
dupe layer.

Take a color sample of the sweater-- then using a medium sized brush(darken mode)
--paint the sweater. That is it!!

The darken mode is on the paintbrush tool bar-- not the darken mode in the layers palette.
Buzz

 
create a dupe layer> image> apply image> red> subtract. This will turn the white black. reduce dupe layer opacity to taste. gc



 
I made a pen tool selection of the upper shirt and moved it up above the white clothing. I made a selection of the skin above the white and moved it down. I then touched up with masking and cloning.

For the white showing through the shirt, I made a Color Range selection of the white and lightest green and opened a green Solid Color adjustment layer in darken mode.

Ronny

 
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Claude Carrier
 
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Claude Carrier
 
Yes,

it's a interesting variant to the method proposed by chaty669. I think it will give the exact same effect.

Thank you!

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Claude Carrier
 
Hi GCam,

I want to be sure that I did the right thinig.

1. I duplicated the layer (I supposed there was a period after your "dupe layer")

2. I went to image menu, chose "apply image". then chose the red channel, and "substract" as the blending.

Then all the image turned black, except for the green shirt! Why???

(p.s. I know I can make a mask to apply the effect only on the part of the shirt I want, and it works great, but I don't understand why the green shirt was left intact and the rest of the image turnd black)

Second question : If the green shirt had been of another color, would this method have worked? Would I have to choose another channel in the image apply mode?

thank you for your answers!
GCam said:
create a dupe layer> image> apply image> red> subtract. This will turn
the white black. reduce dupe layer opacity to taste. gc



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Claude Carrier
 
The white lace that was higher the the green shirt didn't bother me to much, but you did a very good job and I'm interested to know more about your technique.

When you say "... and moved it up above the withe clothing..." Do you mean, copy, past and simply move it around, or a more sophisticated method?

thank you!
Ronny Harris said:
I made a pen tool selection of the upper shirt and moved it up above
the white clothing. I made a selection of the skin above the white
and moved it down. I then touched up with masking and cloning.

For the white showing through the shirt, I made a Color Range
selection of the white and lightest green and opened a green Solid
Color adjustment layer in darken mode.

Ronny

Click to expand...
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Claude Carrier
 
ccarrier said:
Hi GCam,

I want to be sure that I did the right thinig.

1. I duplicated the layer (I supposed there was a period after your
"dupe layer")
2. I went to image menu, chose "apply image". then chose the red
channel, and "substract" as the blending.

Then all the image turned black, except for the green shirt! Why???
(p.s. I know I can make a mask to apply the effect only on the part
of the shirt I want, and it works great, but I don't understand why
the green shirt was left intact and the rest of the image turnd black)

Second question : If the green shirt had been of another color, would
this method have worked? Would I have to choose another channel in
the image apply mode?

thank you for your answers!
Click to expand...
forgot to mention that I lassoed the area of concern without feathering because I just wanted to demonstrate what apply image does. Yes, it does turn green black, blue too( in darken mode). And you are right that you can create a mask to paint over it, but I just lowered the opacity of the layer, since I had made a selection.
 
Yes, I figured that out for the selection, but still have one unanswerd question. If the shirt was yellow (for example) I would probbaly have to use another channel thant "red" in the image > apply image diaglogue. Wouldn't I?
GCam said:
ccarrier said:
Hi GCam,

I want to be sure that I did the right thinig.

1. I duplicated the layer (I supposed there was a period after your
"dupe layer")
2. I went to image menu, chose "apply image". then chose the red
channel, and "substract" as the blending.

Then all the image turned black, except for the green shirt! Why???
(p.s. I know I can make a mask to apply the effect only on the part
of the shirt I want, and it works great, but I don't understand why
the green shirt was left intact and the rest of the image turnd black)

Second question : If the green shirt had been of another color, would
this method have worked? Would I have to choose another channel in
the image apply mode?

thank you for your answers!
Click to expand...
forgot to mention that I lassoed the area of concern without
feathering because I just wanted to demonstrate what apply image
does. Yes, it does turn green black, blue too( in darken mode). And
you are right that you can create a mask to paint over it, but I just
lowered the opacity of the layer, since I had made a selection.
Click to expand...
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Claude Carrier
 
Sorry that I was not clear in my explanation. After a path is made with the pen tool and converted to a selection, Ctrl+J will copy and paste that selection to a new layer. Then hold down Ctrl and drag the shirt up to cover a portion of the underclothing. I don't think I did it on this one but you can reshape the pasted portion of the shirt with the transform tool if needed. Add a mask and touch up. Do the same as above with the skin and drag down to cover the remaining white underclothing. It required very little cloning and you should clone on a blank layer.

Ronny
 
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