Changing the colour of an already painted stencil?

Danface

Hey guys, 

I'm about to start stenciling a whole bunch of text over an asset and at the moment, it seems very much permanent and if changes need to be done, it needs to be restenciled. Which makes sense but in terms of colour, is there a way I can change the colour of the stencil without altering anything else? Much like cover overlay in photoshop.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

poopipe

Put the text in a mask 

Revel

Or put a filter to alter the color like the color balance/ hue saturation etc to the layer.

Danface

@poopipe the only mask options are black, white, bitmap and with colour selection which needs an ID map. Are those the ones you were talking about?

@Revel I've got filters for the balance and sat but that only brighten or darkens the colour so I can have a bright red become a red wine red and so on. I haven't been able to find anything that can turn one colour into another without redoing the stencil

Revel

Hmm strange that here I can colorize my layer, even from a black to bright pink for example. My stacks are from bottom to top; Contrast Luminosity (to brighten up the value to at least greyscale), Color Balance (so to introduce some color value, doesn't really matter what color as long as it has some hue value), HSL Perceptive (this filter that actually control the color hue/ saturation/ value).

poopipe

You paint into the mask and it masks things. I assume itd work with however you're stencilling the text. 

That would be the most flexible option as it allows you to change the full material rather than dicking around with filters

Revel

If you want your decal to be flat color then sure, simply paint a mask on a fill layer. Beginner stuff. But when you want to do more custom decal and actually project a picture of a poster with some graphic/ photos in it, then it's kinda stupid to draw all the graphics/ pictures/ photos/ etc in Painter, unless you going for a hand painted stuff

Danface

@poopipe @Revel I'm using it for text that looks like it has been stickered on so it looks slightly raised through normals. I'll have another fiddle with both solutions

Danface

@Revel it is indeed the HSL perspective filter that changes the colour. I had only tried using the Colour Balance and Colour Correction and it didn't change anything except the vibrance of the colour so thank you

poopipe

Danface said:

@poopipe @Revel I'm using it for text that looks like it has been stickered on so it looks slightly raised through normals. I'll have another fiddle with both solutions

Then you can do exactly as revel says, simply enable the height channel in the fill layer