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steresa
October 19th, 2006, 11:45 AM
I have a jpeg with a white background. On top of that white background is black text. I want to change the white background color to grey instead of white so there would be black text on top of a grey background. I do not have the psd file only the jpeg. Can this be done?
fasterthanlight™
October 19th, 2006, 11:50 AM
Image > Adjustments > Brightness & Contrast

set the brightness a bit lower
foodpk
October 19th, 2006, 11:54 AM
Sure, there are about one million ways of doing this. Here's one, make a layer on top of that picture, colour that whole layer grey and then set it to multiply (right next to the opacity setting).
fasterthanlight™
October 19th, 2006, 11:58 AM
you could also venture into the Hue/Saturation box and bring the lightness down a tad
Seb Hughes
October 19th, 2006, 12:06 PM
you could always marquee the text and cut it out. Or do what was said above.
foodpk
October 19th, 2006, 12:07 PM
Or you can overlay it with a completely black layer and then tone down the opacity of that layer until you achieve your desired result.
Seb Hughes
October 19th, 2006, 12:08 PM
Cant you use the curves option and it got droper select the gray on maybe. (not tested) NVM
fasterthanlight™
October 19th, 2006, 12:11 PM
using the marquee tool as seb suggested is probably the WORST way you could go about it

very unclean results
Seb Hughes
October 19th, 2006, 12:14 PM
^True. I was just suggesting a way.
Seb Hughes
October 19th, 2006, 12:15 PM
Could always use levels. Just tried with level. Results are very good. Just pulkl the bar from the right to left left to get the gray you want.
fasterthanlight™
October 19th, 2006, 12:22 PM
^True. I was just suggesting a way.

DENIED


:P
Seb Hughes
October 19th, 2006, 12:25 PM
^
NAH
iLikePie
October 19th, 2006, 06:43 PM
^ HEH
.soulty
October 20th, 2006, 05:36 AM
Moved!
Please post future photoshop questions in the drawing and design forum.

thanks.
Butters
October 20th, 2006, 07:39 AM
Replace Colour works well, that's what I would use :)
hypnotoad
October 20th, 2006, 12:20 PM
Just use the Fill command with a grey foreground colour....
fasterthanlight™
October 20th, 2006, 12:24 PM
nah that wouldn't deal with the text very well hypno,

it'd be all fringey and unclean
Seb Hughes
October 20th, 2006, 12:28 PM
Use levels. I tested it out levels were perfect.
jacob
October 20th, 2006, 01:05 PM
hypnotoad had a good idea-- fill with grey, but then you want to click command-shift-F (control-shift-F on pc) to FADE the previous command and change it to 'multiply.
this is the same thing as making a fill layer with grey which is set to multiply

easiest way to do it is open CURVES and move the white point to 30%. You can type in the fields 0 as input and 50 as output. This will bring the whites up, to 30% which is a nice grey.

you have probably figured this out by now, hopefully