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: How to Change Colors of a Company Logo without Using Pen Tool? I have a couple of company logos that I want to change to color white (to be placed in a black background). This logo is

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I have a couple of company logos that I want to change to color white (to be placed in a black background). This logo is pretty simple enough to just use the pen tool. However, I have some logos that are complex as this one below:



What's the best way of changing these colors with minimal pain? Other solutions that I found is to Recolor with Preset in the Edit action, but that option is greyed out and cannot be used. Please help me out! The struggle is real.

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@Lee3735518

I can't yet comment on AndrewH's response, because I just got my account, but I would agree that the best way to change the first logo would be to open it in Adobe Illustrator and use the Live Trace/Image Trace tool. There is no "simple" solution for the second, well at least as simple as the first, but a lot of playing around in Photoshop will hopefully get you close. Here is a simple video to get you started:

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@Dunderdale640

Because these are raster images your best bet is to either:

1) Re-create the image to easily change the colors.

or

2) Bring the images into a photo editor program and change the hue/saturation. There are also plenty of other color changing methods in Photoshop if that is the program you plan to be using.


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If you just want to change the text color (If you do not have the original font) in illustrator that would be much easier. Just go to Object -> Live Trace -> Make. This would work entirely for the first image (font & graphic, however using the pen tool will most likely give better results). The second image you would need the text part of the image as its own separate file.

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