Selecting and changing areas of specific colour

[Martin_Algarve]

I have taken a night photo (see attachment) and would like to remove the two bright green areas as I find they disturb the picture.

I would think it should be easy to select by colour, create an adjustment layer and to begin with darken the offending areas.

How do I go about this? I was a bit lost in how to search...

Thanks, Martin

[toltec]

 

You can use Select > Select Sampled Colours which will give you a target pointer (or picker), with a tolerance setting. Click on any colour, like the green and it will select just that. And yes, as you say, apply something like an HSL Adjustment.

 

However, for such a small amount, I would use the Burn brush.

 

Set the size just big enough to cover the green lights and set the Tonal Range to Highlights (context  toolbar). 

 

Then simply paint over.

[Martin_Algarve]

Thank you very much. I tried to do it non-destructive too (as per the instruction video), but could not get it to work.

Last I worked to any extent with Photoshop it was version 5.0, and when you then add slightly different terms on top - I need a week where I do nothing else!

[toltec]

14 hours ago, Martin_Algarve said:

Thank you very much. I tried to do it non-destructive too (as per the instruction video), but could not get it to work.

Last I worked to any extent with Photoshop it was version 5.0, and when you then add slightly different terms on top - I need a week where I do nothing else!

 

You can do it non-destructively.

 

Select the areas, Shown as squares.

 

and make a duplicate layer.  Layer > Duplicate then there will be just those areas on the duplicate. 

 

Below, I hid the background layer to demonstrate, although there is no need to do that.

 

and got this

Make sure the duplicate layer is selected and use the burn brush.

 

Showing both layers

 

The original layer is untouched.

 

Hide the top layer

 

and there it is.