Attempting to alter colors

[JuniorMcSpiffy]

I am trying to design trading cards for my fantasy football and I'm having trouble altering the pictures the way I need. I'm working with Photoshop 6.0, and here's the original pic:



I'm having two issues with this:

First, I'm trying to turn the blue to yellow (yellow shade RGB 233,227,50). I've isolated all the blue with my magic wand, made it a new adjustment layer, then assigned it as a "hue" layer in the layer admin. Beyond that, nothing works. Anything I try that uses a slide will turn it green or purple, but not yellow. I've tried painting the whole selection the shade of yellow I want, but can still only get it to alternate between the original blue and a rancid green.

My second issue (and I've not spent much time working on this, since I'm already burnt out trying to fix issue #1), is I can't seem to color the white of his jersey. I want to turn the jersey blue (RGB 34,64,154). (And yes, I know I could just go with a blue jersey, but that won't help me on other players later.)

In essence, there has to be a more definite way to isolate the shade of color I'm trying to change the jersey to. Help, anyone?

[Andrei Doubrovski]

Hi JuniorMcSpiffy,
Swapping a darker color for lighter one is always rather a headache.

Yes, in the "Hues" dialog, you may lighten the selected area.
And you get even more freedom of action by checking "Colorize" box.
As result though, you inevitably lose shadows:



Swapping a light color (range) for darker color is a bit easier.

- Desaturate the selected area and darken it:


- then colorize it:


Hope this helps.