How To Change BLACK Into ANY COLOR In Photoshop

If you've ever tried to change colors in Photoshop, you might have found it pretty easy when changing one color into another color. The problem is that when you try to use hue adjustments on black, they don't actually make any difference. In this Photoshop tutorial, you'll learn an effective way to change the color of black using a color fill layer, a special layer blending mode, and a levels adjustments. That way you can add a hue and saturation value to the black color, making it possible to switch it into a completely new color.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro + Overview
1:12 Why Black Colours Are Harder To Change
2:25 Cutting Out Black Colours
3:41 Adding Colour To Black
6:18 Turning Black Into White In Photoshop
8:19 Additional Resources & Wrapping Up

[DelmarBD]

That worked insanely well for what I needed. Thank you so much.

[nalosito]

thank you so much!!! this was the only youtube video where I found the solution to change a black object to any other color, and this after watching around 10 of them....thank you!

[everbisavilla]

Thank you men, you done great, now it's easy for me to turn any colors....hehe

[gravisriders]

is it possible to make the red (or any other) color less looking like a chrome color wrap when changing color on black car?

[Rachel-boqg]

Excellent tutorial, just what I needed. Subscribed!

[purplexpiggy]

Not totally related, but kind of. Do you know if there is a way to replace a color used across multiple layers?

For example if color A is used in a font, a shape, a color fill, a gradient, etc. is there a fast way to replace all areas of a certain hex code?

An example would be similar to how MS PowerPoint has their color pallette in master slides. Or how you can replace a color across all pages in Canva.

[srikkanth-tech]

I was trying to change the Dark Knight into spiderman and was wondering why the black armor dress color is not changing with hue/saturation :) Silly me.

[HaleyLeadstrom]

Why is my color turning to black when I change the setting from normal to color when I have a light gray color selcted

[samelogio]

Good tutorial. One suggestion, clip the mask to the layer below rather than duplicating the mask.

[foudaq]

Very helpful as always ❤✊ Will you start making compositing videos again soon?

[beolsoli]

is there a fast way to change any color to black? while using the laso tool or whatever?

[festerartix]

thx for the video. but to be honest, the car looks pretty bad. it is like a red chrome foil and not a red car paint