'09 Pages School Certificate change color from blue to other... how to

I don't think you have that option in Pages.

Try this and see if you get a result you like: select the certificate and open the Adjust Image palette. Adjust the Temperature and/or Tint sliders. You can also play with the other sliders to see what they do.

Walt

It would be useful to know how this certificate was built.
If you inserted picture files, available tools may help to change the color.

If you inserted something made with a vectorial program, I'm afraid that you can change nothing.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 23 septembre 2009 19:32:41

Hi

You have not explained how the image is composed.

*1. If it is an .eps or .pdf file* you will need to alter the color in a drawing program:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=71&mforum=iworktipsn trick

*2. If the border is a bitmap file* it falls into 2 categories:

*a. Black and White .tiff file* This can be colored by simply selecting it in Pages and dragging on a color swatch from the Color Selector.

*b. Colored .tiff/.jpeg/.png/.pict* This will need to be altered in a photoediting program:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?p=90&mforum=iworktipsn trick#90

You will need some skill to isolate the part of the image that you wish to change and depending on the skill, your results will vary. How you edit it is too long and varied by program to list here.

You can try cropping and blocking out various parts of the image by overlaying image boxes in Pages to have limited editing.

Peter

This is one of the templates in the Certificates section. Open it as a new document. Click on the fancy border to select it. It should get little x's in the corners. Arrange/Unlock. Cut.

Go to Preview. File/New From Clipboard. Save as a JPG.

Open the JPG in Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements). Enhance/Adjust Color/Color Variations. Choose to pump up/down red green and/or blue repeatedly until you are happy. Save as a JPG.

Drag the JPG file into the Pages document from wherever you saved it. Arrange/Send to Back. Position and resize it. Arrange/Lock

Note: I tried going straight into Photoshop Elements without the trip through Preview but I ended up with a low-res image. If you know how to retain the image quality without first going through Preview, then skip that step.

Badunit

I hadn't recognised that it was a Pages template.

The Frame in that template is a .pdf. You can get at the image by dragging its icon from

+Inspector > Metrics > File Info:+

to your desk top.

You will need a drawing program to edit the color. Rendering it as a bitmap, particularly a .jpeg, will only blur the fine detail.

Peter

That is very true. At higher zoom you can see it has much less detail. I was trying to do it with tools that most people would have available. Using the Metrics Inspector to get the PDF out of the template thankfully avoids the PDF-to-JPG step. Photoshop can then save the file in a format that can be enlarged more with less loss of detail (though it will be a 15-25MB file versus the 700K original). It still won't be close to the original in detail but it may be sufficient for a non-poster-sized print.

I don't have any drawing applications. Do you have a suggestion for a consumer-level (and consumer priced) application that the OP can use?

See my recommendations here:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=71&mforum=iworktipsn trick

Peter