Can I do this in Aperture? For example lets say someone's eyes are gray and I want to make them blue, really bright blue... can I just sort of paint in a color that isn't actually there?
Susan
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2.8 ghz intel core 2 duo, 4 gb, iPhone 4, Macbook Air
Well there are a bazillion there, any one in particular? I've been googling this for hours and I can't find what I'm looking for. Telling me to watch a tutorial and not pointing out which is exactly where I have been since 5 am.
Susan
There are not a bazillion however the one you would benefit from is Using Brushes to Apply Adjustments. 🙂
Ok I watched that and that is really more "enhancing" color that is already there. So in my initial example... I can't really make gray or brown eyes blue because there isn't really any blue in them to start. So I'm guessing that means I can't really add a color that isn't there. Correct?
Susan
Susan,
Try this:
1 - Select image with eyes you want to change
2 - Open Adjustments Inspector and place a check mark in the 'Color' brick
3 - Click the Color brick Action menu (cog wheel icon) and select 'Brush Color In'
4 - Set the brush size to the size of the iris of one eye and then click once over the eye to set a brush mark
5 - Click the eyedropper tool in the Color brick and click inside the iris (this samples the current color of the iris)
6 - Now use the 'Hue' slider in the Color brick to change the hue of the iris
7 - Repeat for other eye (or do both at once)
Note - you may have to play around with the sliders in brick to get the color you are looking for, but it should be workable if the original iris has color at all (you may notice that black and white are not affected by hue change). 😉
The other option is of course going to PS > creating a selection around the iris > bringing up a 'Hue/Saturation' adjustment > adjusting as needed. The Aperture method is much faster and can be removed quickly. 🙂
Ok I'll try it so far I've not really been able to add color that's not there. And since I understand Aperture better (if you can believe that!) then CS5 I prefer to use it when I can.
Susan
Susan --
There are work-arounds, including the brushed-in hue shift using the Colors Brick, but they don't really do what you propose.
Aperture is a photograph developer. It is not a graphics programs. The difference is this:
Aperture is great for making your photographs as good as possible. Graphics programs -- Photoshop dominates the market -- are great for using your photograph(s) to make posters, invitations, advertisements and other graphics.
I don't want to discourage you from trying to get the effect you want using the Colors Brick, but I do think it important to understand that what you want to do -- adding something that is not there -- is really outside of Aperture's remit.
An interested by stander to the question. And I finally get it. It didn't occur to me that PS and Aperture are fundamentally different. I think we've all be so used to cute gizmos like red eye tool in iPhoto that ( some of us) assume that Aperture could easily add color easily ( like PS) to eyes. Very helpful answer
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Works.....and works nicely. Very subtle changes. Your explanation also helped me understand the flow. That is, chose what you want to do ( brush in) then chose the area, then the eye drooper then the adjust. Very logical.
One item. I tried doing one eye at a time, and when I went to he2nd eye, it changed the first eye some, so I end up with 2 different eye colors. Working 2 eyes at a time solved this.
Now if I could just find a way to easily save the adjustment back to iPhoto without dragging and dropping!!
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Stop using iPhoto. I thought I'd keep iPhoto for family access, but once I set up Aperture, they were able to access it and see stuff fine - they didn't have to understand the inner workings to be able to view and email and upload images. Saves a whole lot of double-handling.
What CalxOddity said is worth not only repeating, but emphasizing: Stop using iPhoto.
Aperture and iPhoto are completely different approaches to the same problems, developed with completely different goals and users in mind. There are excellent tools for moving from iPhoto to Aperture, but they should always and only be used as a one-way, one-time street.
I want to stop using iPhoto however Apple made that difficult for me. When I got Aperture and opened it the first time it asked me if I wanted to import my iPhoto library and I said "yes" (can't remember the exact wording) because my intention was to stop using iPhoto and use only Aperture.
But Aperture only imported half my iPhoto library. So I've not taken the time (and not sure I know how) to find and import the remaining 2000.
Susan
Susan -- it you haven't already, post this as a new thread. I'm sure you'll get the help you need to ensure a complete transfer to Aperture.
Hi Susan,
May I propose 2 differrents solutions. One is, if you have Photoshop on your Mac, it is easy to configure Aperture to use it as an external Photo Editor, once in Photoshop, I gues changing colours on selective part of an image must be a trivial task.
The other solution, is a product called Hand Tint from Jixi Pix software but you have to export your image from Aperture, and then reimport the result. I have an example here: Rue Boyer.
Hope this help...
François
I do have Photoshop and it is the external editor in my Aperture. The real problem is: I'm learning my camera, Aperture, and (sort of) Photoshop at the same time. I work 60 hours a week and am a single mom. I just don't know how to use Photoshop yet and Aperture is so intuitive especially compared to Photoshop (at least for me). Very little about Photoshop makes a lot of sense to me.
Susan.
aperture and adding color to small areas
