How to Color Pixels With Photoshop
The Adobe Photoshop software includes many tools to color images, from paintbrushes to pencils to an airbrush for a graffiti-like effect. But Photoshop lets you turn your attention to a much smaller subject area -- pixels. Pixels are the building blocks of any image and while they're impossible to see without major zooming in, they do offer a highly-controlled way to change color. Coloring, or recoloring pixels, takes just a few tweaks in Photoshop.
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Instructions
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Open Photoshop. Click the "File" menu. Click "Open". Browse to the image with the pixels to color and double-click the file name. The picture opens in the Photoshop workspace.
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Click the "Magnify" tool at the bottom of the "Tools" pane on the left side of the screen. Click the left mouse button until the picture's pixels -- small squares -- become visible. For a standard 4 in. by 6 in. image, click at least five times.
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Right-click the marquee icon, the second from the top square on the "Tools" pane. Select "Rectangular Marquee Tool" from the fly-out menu.
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Draw a square around just the single pixel to color. Take care not to capture multiple pixels -- if this is happening, you may need to zoom in even larger. Blinking lines surround the pixel.
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Pull down the "Image" menu, click "Adjustments" and select "Hue/Saturation". Drag the window off to the side so you can view both the selected pixel and the window.
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Slide the "Hue" bar to the left or right to color the pixel. Click the "OK" button when satisfied.
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Repeat the "Rectangular Marquee Tool" and "Hue" process to change other pixels' colors.
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