(Photo) Same pattern in the background in 4-5 different colors

[Amy Choue]

I am trying to create a book cover (for a multi-volume book on Napoleon) and now it seems I'm near the end. The final version will be something close to the one I am attaching here. I may become able to create something better in the future but for now this will have to do. Creating this, I did not know about removing the border lines of PNG image and completely forgot about using rectangle tool with fill color for the background. So I added one pixel layer upon another, manually painting the color in, removing border lines and such with inpainting brush. And if I change just a bit on any of the adjustment layers, the many corrections I made show up and the whole thing goes awry. They can be hidden from view for good, by arranging the sequence of layers (I've learned about this from tutorials), but I couldn't do it correctly. 

 

So the background pale blue in the blue cover is something I happened to have. I used a lot of blue and white with large paint brush. Much of the painting was over the traces from previous layers. All the adjustments in the adjustment layers are set just so that corrections do not show. 

 

I tried to recycle this blue background, by turning it into JPEG and applying HSL adjustment. I could have some results. But I am wondering, what are the ways to recycle a background in cases like this? In the green version I attach below, the PNG file is without border lines (so no inpainting corrections), and I used a rectangle tool with green fill color and paint brush in white color. Can this green background be recycled in any colors I want? If I want to have a background in 4-5 different colors with the same pattern (same haphazard pattern), what would the workflow be like?  

 

Any suggestions or pointers will be deeply appreciated. 

 

 

[NotMyFault]

There are many ways.

1. Convert pixel layer to image layer. Then you can use the color panel directly to the image layer.

[Amy Choue]

10 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Convert pixel layer to image layer. Then you can use the color panel directly to the image layer.

Can you tell me some of the other methods? I looked up how to use image layer and it seems somewhat over my head at this stage. Maybe a "blend mode" can be useful? Some sort of combining a simple color layer with a pattern (in pale gray color?) layer? I'll go explore any suggestions or pointers.    

[thomaso]

How about another Recolour / HSL adjustment for the background pixel layer only, … as you used already for the entire layer stack? If you nest the adjustment layers accordingly they don't disturb each other.

[walt.farrell]

On 12/4/2023 at 7:30 AM, NotMyFault said:

There are many ways.

1. Convert pixel layer to image layer. Then you can use the color panel directly to the image layer.

Not sure if you intended to explain more than 1 of the many ways. For that one, though, doesn't that conversion require Publisher? I don't think Photo or Designer have Layer > Convert to Image Resource. Or did you mean something else?

[NotMyFault]

17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Not sure if you intended to explain more than 1 of the many ways. For that one, though, doesn't that conversion require Publisher? I don't think Photo or Designer have Layer > Convert to Image Resource. Or did you mean something else?

should be available on Desktop (Mac at least)

yes, I was in a hurry and could not add more.