| PaintShop Photo Pro X3 for Photographers STEP 3 PaintShop Photo Pro puts the frame on its own layer, so you can apply adjustments to the frame, leaving the photo untouched. Here, I've used the Hue/Saturation/Lightness tool to change the frame color. You could just as easily change the Layer blend mode, transparency, or apply any of the Effects filters. Technique: Using the Color Changer Tool Changing colors in a photo is something you'll find yourself wanting to do all the time. Whether it's someone's shirt, a front door, or a car, PaintShop Photo Pro has the tools you need to make a neat job of it. In a previous edition of this book I showed how you can use the Color Replacer tool to change a front door from red to green. The Color Replacer tool remains a good choice for some color-change jobs, but PaintShop Photo Pro X3 has a tool that is much easier to use called the Color Changer tool. One of the advantages of the Color Changer tool is that it works on the entire image. The Color Replacer tool is a brush tool ­ you paint over the parts of the image you want to recolor and, depending on the color of the original pixels and the Tolerance setting, the pixels the brush touches are changed to the new color. The Color Replacer tool remains the best option for fiddly detail, but to change large areas of similar color in a photo the Color Changer tool is the way to go. Here's how to use it to respray your car, or change the color of any other large object. STEP 1 Right-click the Background layer in the Layers palette and select Duplicate from the Context menu. You can make your changes to the Duplicate layer and still have the original to fall back on if anything goes wrong. Select the color you want to change to on the Foreground color swatch in the Materials palette.