about colors & hexcodes

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In Paint Shop Pro, is there a way to color an image relatively??
For example, let's say I have an image that is all of two pixels (for simplicity's sake). The pixel on the right is brown (#6A3700 or R-106,G-55,B-0), and the one on the left is a lighter shade of brown (#815315 or R-129,G-83,B-21).
O.K., now I want to change the 2pix wide image to red. Not one solid color, but with the left pixel to be as many shades of a lighter red than the light brown is to the dark brown.
If I were to do it manually, I would think that you would subtract each red, green, or blue value from it's corresponding r, g, and b number. Or, in the above example, it would be a difference of 23, 28, 21 (#171C15).
Does anyone ever work with this sort of thing?? If PSP can't handle it, is there any software on the web to keep me from doing it all manually??

Steve

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Not sure about PSP, but those are the terms that you can search for. You can colourize, drop to greyscale and then colourize, do a selective replace, play with the tone/level/hue shifters, et cetera.

hth a little,

Suzanne

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Thanks. I finally found the right tolerence setting on the magic wand. Since the text is brown and the background is tan, the text is feathered into the background, making it a little tricky to select. After a little trial & error, I got it, though.

Thanks again,
Steve

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Found a better way, editing an empty mask (50%red). Splitting the channels dosen't help much, cause of the brown/tan blend. It will take some manual dithering practice, but it'll work.

http://graphicssoft.miningco.com/compute/graphicssoft/library/extra/blmasks-psp.htm

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