When designing slides for a presentation, you might wish you could change the color of an object in a photo so the image fits the look and feel of your other slides, or to ensure your presentation slides fit within your brand style guide. Luckily, this is possible. With Photoshop, you can change colors in photos. Once you revise the image, you can then import the updated photo into PowerPoint or your preferred presentation design software.
To help you with this Photoshop process, we created a short demo video. The tutorial video walks you through each step of the Photoshop process. Also, below we listed each of the steps for the two different techniques demonstrated in the tutorial video.
Technique #1: Replace Color
1. Select Image in the menu bar.
2. Move down to the adjustments section.
3. In adjustments, find replace color and click on it.
4. Use the eyedropper tool inside the replace color dialogue box to select the color you want to replace.
5. Use +eyedropper to add shadows or highlights to your color selection, and use –eyedropper if you need to subtract from the selection.
6. Use the sharpness slider to refine your color selection.
7. Use the hue slider to change your selected color.
8. Adjust saturation and lightness as needed.
9. Click OK.
Technique #2: Color Replacement Tool
Note: Use for smaller areas of color.
1. Choose color replacement tool from toolbar.
2. Select brush size and softness.
3. Select your mode. Color will be the one used most often.
4. Choose Sampling mode. We will use Once; this samples the color you originally click on.
5. Choose Limits. Use discontiguous.
6. Choose tolerance. Tolerance decides how close or far from the sampled color the tool will effect.
7. Select your new color as your foreground swatch.
8. Place the cursor over the color you’d like to replace.
9. Click and hold the mouse button as you move the cursor across the color you’d like to replace.
10. Place the cursor over any other shades of the color that didn’t get replaced with your first pass and paint over them.
Additional Resources:
Presentation Design Tip: Alignment and Spacing in PowerPoint
How To Transfer Designs From Photoshop To PowerPoint
Presentation Design Tutorial: Integrate Type Into Photos
PowerPoint Tutorial: Use Color Overlays with Photos
