Quite often, when searching for a relevant image to go on a new website we are designing, we’ll find one that’s almost right, but not quite! We might have a certain picture in mind but when we find it, the object in the picture is perfect but the colours are completely the opposite to what we wanted. Putting it into the design makes the image stick out like a sore thumb and the most important part - the content of the page - fades into the background.

We'll be changing the yellow hot air balloon to a red one

Read on to find out how simple it is to change the colour of a selected part of an image in Adobe Fireworks. In our example we’re going to change the yellow part of the hot air balloon from yellow to red. We’ll use the magic wand tool to select the area we’ll change and then a hue filter to choose the colour we want.

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