Mechanic

 
Color Mechanic
Better Than a Mechanic
There are quite a fewPhotoshopplug-ins on the market. These are small helper programs that are designed to work inside ofPhotoshopand which generally provide access to capabilities thatPhotoshopdoesn't provide directly.
Color MechanicfromDigital Light and Coloris a new offering that provides photographers working in colour with a unique capability‚ being able to change just one specific colour to any other colour, or more usefully, to any shade or variation of that original colour. Big deal? You bet!
Let's see how it works, why you would want to use it, and more particularly how well it does its intended job.
Get To The Point
Once theplug-inis loaded into the correct directory inPhotoshopit is accessed from theFiltermenu. When activated you see a screen similar to the screen capture below. 
The photograph that I used for this example was taken with aCanon EOS D30on a gray overcast day in early October. It was the kind of day that I wi...