Colouring a scanned image / homemade typeface

[Mattwales]

Please help?!?! How do I in either photo or designer do the following. For terms of simplicity let’s say I have written a word using ink onto paper. It’s really grungy. I want this inky image used on a poster. How do I change the colour of the inky art from black to any colour I want? I hope this makes sense. I’ve been trying to apply this method to a black and white picture and I’m tearing my hair out!!!!!

[v_kyr]

Hi and welcome!

Hard to tell without seeing the so called grungy scanned image here, meaning how the scanned result looks like so far and if it's bitmap or vector. - If it is a bitmap/raster image you should be able to manipulate it pixelwise here by recoloring/replacing it's black or gray tone pixels with another color. For a representation as a vector drawing of that image (...assuming then an afterwards vectorization of a scanned image) it depends if all related vector paths are closed so they can be filled with any color or not.

However, in order to get some better help you may want to show/apply a small version of your scanned image here then.

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum @Mattwales

You could try the Recolour filter, move the lightness slider over to the right a bit, say 45% and you should see a change in colour.

[Mattwales]

Thanks for reply guys. This is the image. I want to change it from white to red. A block of colour. 

[v_kyr]

 

Adjustments

• Colour adjustments

• -> Recolor Adjustment

[v_kyr]

Adjustments

• Colour adjustments

-> Selective Colour—subtly adjusts the colour of a photo by modifying individual RGB, CMYK and lightness channels.

[Mattwales]

Amazing. Thank you for that!