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Color Changer Tool in Paint Shop Pro Photo XI

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Tweak and Compare the Settings

Tweak and Compare the Settings
Now with our partially pink and red blanket we need to figure out how to make the entire blanket change color. There are a couple ways you could go about this. One is the same method that you would use with the Color Replacer tool had you not liked the outcome. Ctrl-Z to undo what you did; this would remove the pink and we basically would have a clean slate to start with. From there we could reset the tolerance to a higher number and try again. Repeating this process until we achieved our final goal- thus being a pink blanket instead of a red one. That sure is a lot of clicking, undoing and keyboard shortcutting huh?

Corel's new Color Changer tool has simplified things for you so you don't have to go through that process over and over again to achieve the perfect results. Humor me just this once, though, and undo the change you just made. Change the Tolerance setting to 13, then bump the Edge Setting up a notch to 2. Click once on the blanket. The majority of the blanket should now be pink, as shown here.

By setting the Tolerance to a higher number you have allowed Paint Shop Photo Pro to replace a wider range of red color. You might need to zoom in on the edges, but you will also notice that the edges are a bit smoother than they previously were.

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