AboutLizaL Expertise I've used Photoshop since the release of version 2. I taught college commercial art and graphic design for 10 years, and within that realm, taught Photoshop at every level, and with each successive product upgrade. My experience with Photoshop is thus extensive and well-rounded, from photo retouching to color adjustment to incorporating Photoshop and ImageReady into Web design. I am primarily a Mac user (since 1985), but am also PC-savvy.
Experience I've been a graphic designer for 22 years, was a national magazine art director, a designer for the Department of Defense, a college art instructor, and have my own freelance Web and graphic design business, LittleWorks (www.little-works.com). I've also worked for several printing companies, in both prepress and art.
Awards and Honors PICA award (Printing Industry of the Carolinas Award for the design of a media kit that accompanied a magazine I was art directing at the time)
Question Hi Liza,
I am hoping you can help me. I use photoshop cs2 and I just took on a large color correcting job. My client gave me a set of 6 pantone swatches and I loaded them up in my swatch list. Each image is a dress and has to be in all six colors. I know because of detail and shadow there will be variations of color, but I need just the overall image. I have tried "color replacement" tool and replace color, but I know I am doing something wrong. I need to do this for 50 images! and I am starting to worry big time. Please help!!
Answer Hi Susan,
You're right, there will be lots of variation because of the detail and shadow, not to mention folds and wrinkles in the fabric. You also sound like you're in a hurry, so I'm going to rely on someone else's fix -- although it's what I would try if I were you.
It's the Match Color command, found under the Image pulldown menu, then Adjustments > Match Color. Long story short, you can take the color from one image, sample it and apply it to picture #2.
