Change color to a specific color

[shy sentinel]

Hi,

I want to be able to change the color to match a specific color
(And to be honest I would like to remove the color gradient, currently its slighty darker on the left side.)

I have tried hue / saturation, but you would have to eyeball it (hard to match) and I have tried solid color fill layer, but without changing blend mode the nintendo text is not visible. With a different blending mode the color does not match the wanted color anymore, mission failed.

I could select just the background, without the nintendo game boy text etc, but I would like to have it change proportionally with the other color change.

[winged loom]

I would turn the whole thing in black and white (Black and white adjustment layer) and then stack a solid colour adjustment layer on top, of the colour of your choice, set in colour blending mode (other blending modes might work better for adjusting the contrast between text and background, like "hard light" . On that solid colour adjustment, you can directly type in the hex code or whatever you use.
It's a rather crude way of doing it, but in the case of simple graphics, it works 🙂

Basically, you remove the red with the BW layer, and you add the colour with the solid colour layer. The thing is that you need to set up the black and white layer to register the background (your red) as 128/128/128 so you will get the exact match to fit with the "colour blending mode")
Instead of using a BW layer, you can use a level adjustment layer first and use the pick up for neutrals and click on the background...

Of course, that way you will never resolve the gradient unless you either adjust the lightness of that area (by using a level adjustment layer, and some masking)
You'll get a better matching using my first method, but with the "hard light" Blending mode

[shy sentinel]

Hey @winged loom, Thanks for responding!! I tested your methods, but I have a hard time to match the color with the color that I want. I used the Black and white adjustment layer and tweaked the red and yellow slider a bit so that it shows 128/128/128 in some spots. After that I used a solid color adjustment layer on top and chose the color as the blue background color. The whole rectangle is the perfect blue (no text is visible anymore), but when I set the blending mode to color the text appears again but the color doesn't match the background color anymore. Is it that I didn't setup the black and white adjustment layer correctly or is there another problem?

[sharp garden]

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[shy sentinel]

I tried the same with the levels adjustment layer, but that doesn't seem to work either.

[winged loom]

Did you test with "hard light" instead of "colour". I found that hard light looks better. You can also try darken if your colour is darker than the tone of the neutral grey or "lighten" if the opposite.
The issue here is to preserve the writing, if no method works, you'll probbaly have to select and separate the text from the background.

Alternatively, and granted, it's not the easiest solution, you can put a colour sampler on your image and change the numbers on a curves layer, so they match the numbers of the real blue you want. Of course, in that case, you will need to create another one to tackle the gradient on the border

Personnaly, I would try to recreate it with vector tools, it's a bit of an elbow grease situation, but at least you'd have precise colours you could work with. Depens if it's worth the waffle or not, time-wise.

(logos can be found for free, online, as vector files)

[floral glacier]

How about

[grizzled salmon]

Try a gradient map in an adjustment layer, since it's only basically two colors. This will remap the underlying image with the colors in the defined gradient based on luminosity.