Changing the color of a frame

[Verleen]

I'm working with a template and I want to change the frame color. How do I do that?

[Verleen]

bumpity-bump. Is is possible to change a frame color? I using a template that I downloaded from the gallery at SBM.

[crops2dawn]

Hi Verleen. Yes most of the times you can the color. Right click,Go to the advance section, at the bottom. there is 2 ways to change 1.in the color section, or what I do mist of the time is go to sepia, pick a color. You can click on as many times to get the right color.I hope this helps ya!
Now I wish some one would tell me how to upload into the gallery!!!!!!LOL

[pkdoll]

crops you are kidding right?? You have all kinds of things in the gallery!! What problem are you having?

[crops2dawn]

I wish I was kidding!!! I download the LO and when it comes to the next page, the one where you edit it, mine is blank, I tried so many times! I now have 8 LOs in my queue and for the life me I cant get to them!

[Verleen]

I must be doing something wrong. I found the Advanced section and tried both methods. The starting color was a muddy orange. I tried for a lighter shade of lavender. then white even. Everytime, I end up with a color that turns black the more I play with it. It does change the color, but not to what I wanted.

[crops2dawn]

Sorry Verleen, sometimes you just cant change it, this must be one of those times. maybe if you have the frame in a lighter color you can try that.

[ekatiel]

YOu can try to chage the frame to grayscale first (a tip someone else on here gave me), and then try to use the "adjust color" option under advanced effect settings. I just tried with an orange button, and I was able to change the color. Just make sure you have the saturation bar all the way to the right for objects that start out dark. Here's what I've been able to figure out about adjusting the color. The hue bar is a spectrum of the rainbow starting with a teal blue on the very left, progressing to blue, then purple, the red is about in the middle, then comes orange, yellow, green, and the very right is the teal blue again. The "Lightness" bar will give you different shades of a color. All the way to the right is the lighest-- IE, if you have the Hue set on red, and the lightness is more to the right, you will get a bright red. If it is more to the left you will get a maroon color. Anyhow, try turning the image to grayscale before you color it, and make sure the saturation is set all the way to the right. Good luck! Let us know how it goes. And if I'm off about any of this, please correct me, guys-- I'm new at all this too! --Katie

[Wickel]

YOu can try to chage the frame to grayscale first (a tip someone else on here gave me), and then try to use the "adjust color" option under advanced effect settings. I just tried with an orange button, and I was able to change the color. Just make sure you have the saturation bar all the way to the right for objects that start out dark. Here's what I've been able to figure out about adjusting the color. The hue bar is a spectrum of the rainbow starting with a teal blue on the very left, progressing to blue, then purple, the red is about in the middle, then comes orange, yellow, green, and the very right is the teal blue again. The "Lightness" bar will give you different shades of a color. All the way to the right is the lighest-- IE, if you have the Hue set on red, and the lightness is more to the right, you will get a bright red. If it is more to the left you will get a maroon color. Anyhow, try turning the image to grayscale before you color it, and make sure the saturation is set all the way to the right. Good luck! Let us know how it goes. And if I'm off about any of this, please correct me, guys-- I'm new at all this too! --Katie

I just tried it Katie....It works !! great directions on how to do it also I was able to understand them hehehe

[ekatiel]

I'm glad it worked for you!!! I've been recoloring a TON of stuff ever since I figured out how to do it. Another cool feature-- the settings stay the same under the adjust color setting, so that you can turn several different things the same color. This really helps when you want to recolor an alpha letter by letter, or when you want to recolor more than one embellishment to the same color. Happy scrapping -- Katie

[crops2dawn]

Ohhhh Sooo Glad you got it figured out! I am not that good at explaining things and you did a great job on it!!!!

[mint]

What i do is play with all 3 of the things in advanced they all will give you a different color , just a touch can change it when you get a shade that is all most right try lighting it or the intensity all make a big differences to what you get. if you try long Enif you will get what you wont i do.

[Verleen]

Hmmm, I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. I printed out the information for the binder I'm building. There must be something wrong with the template that I downloaded because nothing has helped. I cannot get rid of the black, no matter what. It started out orange and when I did the color techniques, it turned black and nothing changes it. When it turned black, I immediately did an 'undo' and that didn't change it back. I think I will delete the template and build my own....lol.

[twx]

Color Changing

I use the program Eclipse Palette. This program determines the color the object already is and then you can match it in Paint. This works very well for frames... The link and I believe a tutorial for the program is posted in one of the forums.......

Terry