Having Trouble Replacing Colors on Images

[Rob A]

I've watched a few of the tutorials but seem to having trouble replicating the process.

For example, screen capture of Amazon or good reads logs and ratings. I end up with something like this. I want to change the color of stars to yellow, numbers to white - then make the image background either transparent or even black. It seems painstaking to do this manually either manually painting or with the selection brush.

I thought the select same, fill color was an option but just can't make it work. I've rasterized and done a simpleton's cut to remove the numbers and add white text for the numbers. The real struggle is replacing the background.

Thanks in advance!

[Komatös]

Hello @Rob A and welcome to the forums.

You can do that with HSL adjustment. Select Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> HSL..

Choose a colour point (here e. g. the red) and set the sliders to your need; or pick the color you would change and then manipulate with the sliders.

[GarryP]

RobA: Is the example you gave what you actually want to achieve or is it just a simple example of what you want to do?
I only ask as you can achieve white text on a black background with yellow rating stars quickly by creating them from scratch, and the result will be much easier to manipulate.

[v_kyr]

13 hours ago, Rob A said:

The real struggle is replacing the background.

With such smaller bitmaps/raster image portions (those rating stars) it's always slightly more difficult to get good pixel-part selections in order to change fill colors etc. Though it can be also bitmap-wise done via some finer selections and the area selection (magic wand) tool etc.

However, for exactly such ratings things I would instead recreate it via shapes + text aka vectors then. This can also be easily done just in Photo. - The advantage here is, you can then afterwards scale it up/down in size to your needs without outherwise occuring pixelation (if it were bitmap/raster) and export as PNG etc.

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[Old Bruce]

5 hours ago, v_kyr said:

However, for exactly such ratings things I would instead recreate it via shapes + text aka vectors then. This can also be easily done just in Photo. - The advantage here is, you can then afterwards scale it up/down in size to your needs without outherwise occuring pixelation (if it were bitmap/raster) and export as PNG etc.

There is then a possible situation where there are several other items that are not to be changed. If the recoloured stars are crisp and other things are not crisp it will be visually jarring.

[Rob A]

Thanks everyone!. Some good suggestions. Yes, change the stars was easy via HSL - but the pixilation was ugly to work with for the background. Based on the different approaches people posted I am well on my way.

I am impressed with the number of responses over just a couple of days. Seems like a great community.

Thanks again!