Hi everyone! I am using PSE4 on a Mac. I am confused on how to color stitching. It's part of a template. If I select it and get the marching ants around it, it has the ants around everything but the stitch itself. I can click with the Magic Wand on each individual stitch but that is very time consuming. There has to be a way to select it and then add the color. Speaking of the latter, how can I add color to just the stitching? The Paint Bucket sometimes is too big and the color goes everywhere! I know there must be a way to do all this but I can't figure it out. Thanks for the help! from dry, dry, dry, Mt. Airy, Maryland, Judy

I'm not an expert but one way I change the colors of elements like stitching is as follows: set foreground color in the tools palette to your color of choice; (you may have to hide all layers in the layers palette other than the stitching before you continue by clicking the eye on each layer); in the layers palette, click on the create adjustment layer icon (black & white circle); choose hue/saturation; check the colorize box in the lower right corner; adjust color to your liking; OK. Done! I hope this makes sense and I'll be watching advise from others to see if there is an easier way to do this!

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When you select the magic wand tool, above where your layer is, there should be a tool bar. On that toolbar is the choice "contiguous". Uncheck that and then just click in one stitch. All stitches should be selected.

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Ok- that worked! But when I select the Paint Bucket, it doesn't color the stitches. How do I color them then? Firecracker, I tried your suggestion but no color appears on the stitches. I don't know why. I did what you suggested........ But unclicking contiguous when using the Magic Wand selected just the stitches but now I can't get the color that I want. Oh, woe is me! Judy

What color are the stitches to start with? If they are white or black you will need an extra step to put color in them - Im not sure of the specifics in PSE but try FireCrackers suggestion again but this time boost the saturation way up, you may also need to adjust the lightness/darkness to darker - just so you get any color in it at all.
After you have some color then you can change the color to suit
HTH

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What worked for me was to use a paper that was the color I wanted and treated the stitches like a template. I put the paper over the stitches and then did control + g and then merged. Thanks for the help! Judy