Changing object colors with Adjust colors
If you don't see the Contextual Task Bar, go up under Window, and then choose Contextual Task Bar here.
In the Task Bar, click on Adjust colors.
You'll see seven color circles.
The first one will adjust all the colors in the image, and the other six - are the six most prominent colors in the image.
And when we adjust these, they're going to target just their specific color.
Let's click the circle that's closest to the color we want to change.
So, we're going to click the red circle.
Notice you'll see three different controls here: Hue, Saturation and Lightness.
Hue is the color itself - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, indigo.
Saturation is the amount of that color.
If we go to the left, it becomes less saturated until it just goes to grayscale.
And Lightness will lighten or darken that color.
Let's change the Hue.
If we go around -127, notice we get a nice blue shade.
Let's reduce the Lightness to make it darker.
This gives us a deeper blue.
Now let's adjust the Saturation to add more vibrance to that blue.
And notice this gives us a nice Santorini blue.
Notice that the color of the ring is now split.
We've got the original - or the before color - on top, and on the bottom, we have the new color.
Now, experiment with some different shades, even taking the Saturation all the way down.
We could reduce the Lightness to get a black, or increase it to get a white, and pretty much any other color in between.
