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Technique Tuesday – Recoloring Papers & Elements Nondestructively

Technique Tuesday

Recoloring Papers & Elements Nondestructively

In this tutorial, I’ll show you a super easy method of recoloring the colored papers in my ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Altered Art Vol 1. This also works great for colored elements.

Step One: Prepare the Document 

  • Open one of your papers (File > Open). I’m using SNU_SSPaper_AlteredArt_VOL1-5b.jpg.
  • Make a duplicate copy (File > Duplicate).
  • Close the original.

Step Two: Add a Color Fill Layer

  • In the Layers panel, click on the Create a New Fill or Adjustment layer icon and choose Solid
  • In the Color Picker, choose a I am using Hex #d64b4b. Click OK.

Step Three: Change the Blend Mode 

And now for the magic!

  • In the Layers panel, change the Blend Mode of the Color Fill layer to Lighten. How cool is that?

Step Four: Blend Mode Samples

Let’s play with the Blend Modes to discover other variations! In this example, I changed the Blend Mode to Screen.

And finally, in this example, I changed the Blend Mode to Soft Light.

The great thing about this method of recoloring is that you get a variation of colors as opposed to just recoloring one of the greyscale templates. In that case, you would have just one all- over-color.

Here’s the same paper, but I have used the greyscale template version and added the same Color Fill layer and the Soft Light Blend Mode as I did above. It’s a huge difference!

And that’s all there is to it! So easy, and the best part is that this is a totally non-destructive way to recolor your backgrounds, textures, and papers!

Make sure to save your paper (File > Save As) in an easy-to-find location.

Happy scrapping!


Tutorial written by Syndee Rogers

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