{"id":28,"date":"2005-03-28T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-03-28T22:02:28","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T04:02:28","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/28\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t pick house colors? Photoshop to the rescue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbors painted their house yellow and are having trouble finding good accent colors.  Besides going with the yellow, the accent color(s) can&#8217;t make the house look too much like the orangish one across the street.  (We have a colorful neighborhood.)  Anyway, I offered my budding photoshop skills.  I basically selected like-color chunks of the original photo that I wanted to color change using the magic lasso and the magnetic selector.  I then copied that chunk to a new layer.  Finally I dupicated each of those layers and changed the color as desired.  This enabled me to switch on and off various colors, allowing me to try different color combinations.  Below you can see the original photo and 3 of the 8 variations I&#8217;ve made.  If you have any ideas, feel free to send them my way. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/neighborhouse_orig.jpg' alt='Neighbor\\&#39;s house - original colors' \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h3>Original photo<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/neighborhouse_brown.jpg' alt='Neighbor\\&#39;s house - brown trim' \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h3>Brown trim and stairs<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/neighborhouse_olive1.jpg' alt='Neighbor\\&#39;s house - olive trim 1' \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h3>Olive trim and graphite stairs<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/neighborhouse_olive2.jpg' alt='Neighbor\\&#39;s house - olive trim 2' \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h3>Yellow trim with olive highlights and graphite stairs<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Of course these are merely mockups.  So mileage will vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbors painted their house yellow and are having trouble finding good accent colors. Besides going with the yellow, the accent color(s) can&#8217;t make the house look too much like the orangish one across the street. (We have a colorful neighborhood.) Anyway, I offered my budding photoshop skills. I basically selected like-color chunks of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}