Understanding colouring to exact values

[SteveKimpton]

I know this must be simple but I just don't see how to do it.

I have some black on transparent drawings that I need to convert to a specific colour (it happens to be rgb 235, 207, 0 = cmyk 8, 19, 100, 0; = hsl 53,100,46) on transparent. 

1) In AP I click ctrl i to turn the drawing from black on transparent to white on transparent
2) Click Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Recolour.  This gives the HSL option only.  
3) I can set H and S to the exact values but L starts off at 0.  My guess is that I need to be 46% of total 200% range, i.e.-8%.

Unfortunately that colour is much too light and I'm sure there must be a neater method that doesn't need arithmetic.

On the web, there are a lot of tutorials where the starting point is to carefully select precise areas and then paint in a colour.  My starting points aren't photos with lots of gradation, they have already been processed into lines of absolute black on absolute transparent and I want to change the black to another precise colour.

Any help would be appreciated.  

 

   

 

 

   

 

[kaffeeundsalz]

That's not how the Recolor adjustment works. If you need to apply specific color values, use Fill layers. They can be given precise color values. Then, use Blend Modes and Blend Ranges to control how the color affects your original image.

[telemax]

 

[telemax]

[SteveKimpton]

Thank you all for spending the time answering my question. 

Teemax's video was perfect when I finally managed to see how the rectangle became transparent (dragging from one layer to another on the layers panel)

Thanks again!