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Colorizing a layer with Color Overlay

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From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Colorizing a layer with Color Overlay

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- [Instructor] All right, so I know I said I was done, but I changed my mind. In the end, I decided that I wanted to change the color of these clouds here so that they better matched the red inside this Mars-shaped moon. And while this had nothing to do with selections, it is a really great trick for colorizing a single layer, not using a hue saturation adjustment layer, but rather, more simply, using a color overlay effect. So I'm going to start by clicking on the clouds layer to select it, then I'll drop down to the fx icon at the bottom of the layers panel and choose color overlay. By default, that may end up filling all of your clouds with red, like so, and that's because you want to change your blend mode from normal to color if you want to do a straight colorization, like so. And so you can see, I've now managed to colorize my clouds red. Or, if you want to maintain the original saturation values and just change the hue and nothing more, then choose hue instead, in which case…

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