Purple filter on company logo for Spirit Day

October 16, 2014 6:45 AM

For Spirit Day, I'm trying to give my company's logo a purple filter (we're a small non-profit). I keep coming up with a million photoshop tutorials. For your purposes, our logo is on a royal blue background with white and green in the middle. Can someone talk me through how to give this all a purple glow so I can rep our company well? I have Photoshop. TIA.
posted by rabu to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

Open up a copy of the logo in Photoshop. Create a new empty layer above the logo, then fill the layer with purple. Change the color layer's blending mode to "color". (see circled drop down menu, ignore overlay setting shown). The logo should immediately take on a purple tone. Adjust opacity as needed to get desired look.
posted by Hermione Granger at 6:53 AM on October 16, 2014

Response by poster: Thanks, Hermione, but the link is locked for some reason. I made it to that step though. I'll wait and see if anyone else has ideas or if I can find "change the color layer's blending mode to "color"' somewhere else online.
posted by rabu at 7:24 AM on October 16, 2014

Response by poster: I got it to work! Thanks so much!
posted by rabu at 7:35 AM on October 16, 2014

Another way to do something similar is to use Images -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation, tick Colorize, and then move the Hue around. This will have a slightly different effect than a filter but can be useful with complex or clashing colors.
posted by wackybrit at 7:36 AM on October 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm not completely clear on what you exactly want to do, but you might also want to look at Layer Styles -> Inner Glow and Outer Glow - if, for instance the logo is on a separate layer above the royal blue background, you could outline the logo with some kind of glow. Stroke and Overlay Layer Styles might be interesting, too.

If you simply want to colorize the entire image, either of the two suggestions above would be fine. Or you could add an Hue / Saturation Adjustment Layer above your image and then more or less what wackybrit said.

One of the things I like about Photoshop is that there are umpty-ump ways to do just about anything.
posted by doctor tough love at 7:52 AM on October 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

Great! Glad I could offer one way to make it happen. Did you discover that you can unlock a background layer by double clicking on it? I was originally going to tell you how to use layer effects and my instructions for that included unlocking the main image layer but I neglected to retain that in my revised instructions.
posted by Hermione Granger at 8:41 AM on October 16, 2014