Istet Color-by-Example

Using Color-by-Example to Adjust Colors
by Jake Albert


My wife an I were looking at this sports car and my wife said: "Wouldn't it look just fabulous if it matched the color of my cell phone." I said: "I don't know, I think it would look ridiculous in pink."
To resolve this argument, I took a picture of the car, found a picture of my wife's phone and proceeded to combine the two.
I wanted to replace the yellow with the pink and for such jobs I use Color-by-Example. It allows me to copy colors from one image into another. These are the steps I performed:

1.	I opened my car image in Photoshop (Photoshop Elements would do just as well.)
2.	I selected Istet/Color-by-Example from the top Filter menu.
3.	I clicked on the Open Sample button to find my sample image in the file system and load it into Color-by-Example. Color-by-Example remembers the latest sample you use, so I don't have to keep opening the same sample over and over again. At this point the Color-by-Example window looked like this:

4.	I selected the color-picker tool and clicked right in the middle of the car hood. Then I clicked in the middle of the cell phone. Color-by-Example matched the left color to the right.

My task was completed in just seconds. I showed the result to my wife and said: "See: it looks ridiculous!" She answered: "I don't know, I think it looks kind-a fabulous."