Photo shop this text to red please

[laserspeeddemon]

This is for our DSM Team we are throwing together. Can someone photoshop it to a dark red.

 

[myeagleneedmods]

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I tried

 

[ArticNemesis]

I think the black/red looks cooler though.

 

[laserspeeddemon]

It does but it's going on a dark grey background and it almost disappears.

 

[snowborder714]

Sean, I played with it for a while and I just can't get it to pop. I'm not sure if the original image is low quality or if it's because of all of the black/white changes so close together. Here's my version. I had put it on a gray background even before you posting that as I thought it looked better.

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Another one I just came up with.

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[knochgoon24]

Here it is, in medium red, with the background white stripped out. The dark red wasn't showing on gray to well. If someone wants to tweak the color more, this gif image might be the place to start, since you should only have to adjust saturation.
(You have to go file->Save Image As... since it won't copy correctly into most programs)

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[Bubbs Malone]

knochgoon24 has the right idea, selective color setting in photoshop does the trick as well...

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[snowborder714]

Care to explain Bubbs?

 

[Bubbs Malone]

Sorry about that, I'm using Photoshop CS2. the dropdown menus are as follows:
-Image
-adjustments
-selective color

Then just mess with the sliders. Here is another I like to call Ripe Redness, nifty.

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Three layers with a slight chrome effect that comes across more as a leopard skin effect, hmmm. myeagleneedmods had a great start.

 

[snowborder714]

I think I saw that option earlier but just passed over it since I wasn't sure what it was/how it worked. I'll have to play with it later!

 

[Bubbs Malone]

That's how I learn, I didn't know it before tonight.

 

[knochgoon24]

I used Paint.net since I'm a poor college kid who can't drop the dough on PS. I used the Gradient Mapping based on the luminosity to remove the white background from the text by mapping a transparent (0 Alpha) to the brightest (white) areas. At the same time, I set the dark end (black) of the slider to a red color.

Now, by adjusting brightness, saturation, hue, whatever... I can change the color of the text from there.

I like to use the Gradient Mapping to remove solid background colors because of the artifacts you get when you compress the file as a jpeg or gif. You always have that pesky halo of just off colors. I just add a third slider the same as the colors I want to leave and drag the slider down to "collects" all those colors and turns them into one.

The downside to the gradient mapping approach... it works best on black and white images, since it maps one channel (brightness, red, green, blue, alpha...etc.) Trying to use it on a color images gets some funky results.

 

[myeagleneedmods]

hmmm. myeagleneedmods had a great start.

Thanks, but I just selected and used variations and hue/saturation. I got to start learning to use CS4 more

 

[snowborder714]

I wish I could use CS4. Every time I open an image I get an error and it has to close. I wonder if it's because it recommends (or maybe requires?) having 2GB of RAM, whereas I only have 768MB