change colour but keep fabric texture.

[Dude WM]

I have a picture of a person wearing red and white stripes.  I want to change the red stripes white so it all looks white but keeping the fabric texture of the red stripes with the colour how white.  If I use the flood fill tool to fill the red stripes white I lose the fabric texture.  How do I change fabric colour but keep the fabric textture?

[h_d]

You could use an HSL Shift adjustment layer to desaturate the reds, then mask out the garment. This is with a soft toy knitted by my very clever daughter, but the principle is the same.

 

 

 

These are the red settings in my HSL shift:

 

 

Saturation down to -100%, luminosity up to 100%

 

I masked it by selecting the background with the selection brush, tidied the selection with the Refine... button in the Context menu bar, then selected the adjustment layer and filled the selection area (the wooden table) with black.

 

Hope it helps!