Photo: Selecting a "range" of colours

[Nelly111s]

Hi,

I'm trying to modify the attached photo to "alter" the text. I can use text and distort it OK to appear to be the same perspective. What I'm unsure of it how to pick up the colours of the rusty steel in the original letters and paste them on to a standard text character. I understand how to use the colour picker, but that only samples a single colour of one pixel, not the whole area.

 

Image attached. If I've not made myself clear, please ask.

 

[Hangman]

@Nelly111s, welcome to the forums,

With the colour Picker tool selected you can change the radius of the selection using to use an increasing number of pixels by selecting from the drop down menu in the context toolbar...

[NotMyFault]

28 minutes ago, Nelly111s said:

What I'm unsure of it how to pick up the colours of the rusty steel in the original letters and paste them on to a standard text character.

The rusty layers have a pattern, not. single colour.

1. merge visible or rasterise the image
2. make a selection of a suitable portion, e.g. upper part of letters R or E 
3. "create pattern layer from selection"
4. Add your text as artistic text frame
5. move the pattern layer as child lawyer to the text

 

In case you want a "perfect" pattern without visible seams, you need to select a rectangular portion, and use a workflow to create endless tiles (there is a tutorial video). This can be assigned as bitmap fill, or converted as shown above into a pattern layer.

[Nelly111s]

@Hangman, @NotMyFault

Thanks for your inputs. I used both techniques and have achieved a great result (considering my skill level). Just what I needed.