Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 User Manual page 172

See also
"About blending modes" on page 217
To replace colors in an image
The Color Replacement tool simplifies replacing specific colors in your image. You can paint over a targeted color—
for example, a yellow flower in an image—with a different color, like red. You can also use the Color Replacement
tool to correct colors.
Use the Sample Once option to click on an area and replace the color (top). Sample the background and use the Background Swatch option to
replace the color of the background (bottom).
Select the Color Replacement tool
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Choose a brush tip from the Brush menu in the options bar. For Mode, generally, you'll want to keep the blending
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mode set to Color.
Click one of the following Sampling options:
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Samples colors continuously as you drag.
Continuous
Replaces the targeted color only in areas containing the color that you first click.
Once
Erases only areas containing the current background color.
Background Swatch
For Limits, choose one of the following:
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Replaces the sampled color wherever it occurs under the pointer.
Discontiguous
Replaces colors that are contiguous with the color immediately under the pointer.
Contiguous
For Tolerance, specify a low percentage to replace colors very similar to the pixel you click, or raise the percentage
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to replace a broader range of colors.
To define a smooth edge to the areas you correct, select Anti-alias.
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Choose a foreground color to use to replace the unwanted color.
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Click the color you want to replace in the image.
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. (The Color Replacement tool is nested under the Brush tool
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