In this case, I created a selection of the building before hand, so I’m just selecting the building, copy and pasting it into the photo of the sunset. Step 4: Now simply copy the portion of the image you wish to place into the source image. As you can see in the image below, the building image is looking better already. Once you’re happy with the adjustments, hit OK. Move the Fade slider around to adjust the tone of the colors, and adjust the Color Intensity as well. Now you can play with the Image Options in the upper part of the Match Color dialog box. Step 3: You will notice that your working image is now using the colors and tones from the source image. This can be confusing because the preview shows the image you’re working on, not the source image. The first thing you want to do is go down to the Image Statistics section and select the Source image from the drop-down menu, in this case it is the sunset.jpg. Step 2: Visit the menu bar and select Image>Adjustments>Match Color… The Match Color dialog box will open and you will be presented with several options. In this case, I want to alter the building photo to look like it was taken at the same time as the sunset photo, so the building image is in front. Make sure that the image you wish to alter is selected and in front. Step 1: Open both your images in Photoshop and make sure both are in RGB color format (CMYK won’t work). See the image above for what I mean, the building looks out of place. Obviously the photo of the building will look out of place due to the time of day the photos were taken.

Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on faced with the task of taking part of one photo and blending it with another photo, you may run into the problem of color variances that make it obvious that one of the photos doesn’t “belong.” For instance, I want to take a photo of a building which was photographed in mid-day and drop it into a sunset photo. Tip: You can also use other adjustment layers, like Photo Filter adjustment layers, to create a unifying color treatment for a composite image. You can also customize the tint by adjusting the layer opacity.

In the Layers panel, select the layer mask thumbnail on the Solid Color layer, and paint with black to hide, or with gray to partially hide, the color tint on parts of the composite.

Open the blend mode menu at the top of the Layers panel and set the blend mode for the Color Fill layer to Hue or Color to create a unifying color tint.

In the Color Picker, the color you sampled with the Eyedropper will already be selected, or you can choose a new color.

Click the Add new fill or adjustment layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Solid Color.

Select the Eyedropper in the Toolbar and click a color in the image.

Try dragging the Opacity slider to the left to vary the effect of the color-averaged layer.Ī Solid Color layer is another way to add a unifying color treatment to a composite.

This adds a unifying color tint to the composite.

Open the blend mode menu at the top of the Layers panel and set the blend mode of the color-averaged Background copy layer to Color.

With the Background copy layer active, choose Filter > Blur > Average.

In the Layers panel, drag the new Background copy layer to the top of the layer stack.

With the Background layer active, choose Layer > New > Layer via Copy.

Combine layered images into a composite.

One of the final steps in many compositing projects is to create a unifying color treatment so that the various image elements all work together.Ĭreate a color-averaged layer from the backgroundĪ color-averaged layer can help unify elements in a composite. The different elements in a composite often come from photos that have different color characteristics.

Photoshop match color between images