Chapter 5. Swap and Add Colors in Your Photographs

Use the painting tools in Photoshop Elements to change or add colors in your photographs.

Tools: Photoshop Elements

Materials: Your photo

Swap and Add Colors in Your Photographs
Swap and Add Colors in Your Photographs

In this project, you'll learn two different techniques. Working with the Paintbrush tools, you'll learn how to add colors to black-and-white images; then we'll show you how to replace existing colors in images with completely new ones.

In the first technique, we'll demonstrate how to add colors to either a color or a black-and-white image. You can use this method to ...

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