The first would be the colored texture I worked on [which is now greyscale] and the other would be a greyscale bumpmap.

Is there any way to restore the color of the first texture I made -- how can I go about this?

Any help would be appreciated... I am just destroyed over this.

Thank you,

jlovesart2

You can't restore the colour information, unless you have a backup. You could try painting flat colour on a layer set to Color blending mode over the grey to rebuild the coloured original (if you have a backup of an earlier stage you could use that as a starting point).

Did you try the windows system restore, its a long shot but try it, maybe it will restore the colored file. Another thing if you are using PS CS check the layer comps, I`m still in PS7 so all I now is that layer comp is history on steroids ;) Tihomir

I do have the original texture file, but it's not update to the last point I did... I may have to try that. "You could try painting flat colour on a layer set to Color blending mode over the grey to rebuild the coloured original (if you have a backup of an earlier stage you could use that as a starting point)." This one's for RHaseltine... How can I use my first texture I did and blend it with the one on greyscale? I'm very new at this, and by the way, I do have PS CS8... Thank you so much for your responses. jlovesart2

It depends how advanced the earlier save is, I can think of various things to try - adding the earlier version in Color or someother mode so that you get the detail from below, masking out the unfinished areas of the old save but keeping the finished areas, then using colours sampled from the colour version to colorise the greyscale version where it has the detail, you might try using the Match Color filter to recolor the grayscale, or you could use the colour channels from the old version to build selections for red, green and blue and then apply those to the grey scale and use Adjust colors with colorise on to rebuild the image. Make master copies of what you have and experiment.

Hi, I think it is possible by selecting the area which you want to colorize simplly go to image menu choose adjestment then in the last you will see the "Variation" try this option for colorize your image.... OR you can also choose the option of "hue situration" from adjestment or simply Ctrl+U... but I prefer to choose "Variation" it is more effective. I think it would be help full

Thanks for all your help... At the moment, I'm starting over on working with the texture from scratch (again), and this time I will make a copy of my work just in case I go through yet another bad situation. I was trying to work with making a bump map and still can't get it... I have looked in other post and had post threads in making bump maps since I do have Poser 6, but it's not what I'm looking for. Oh well... Many thanks for all of your replies and I hope to come up with something real soon. Have a good one, jlovesart2

I suppose it's a little late but, if you saved BEFORE you purged your cache files... useful if you have smaller drive, or Huge files.... then, likely, the history is still intact... you CAN backstep using that... even delete an action. Good luck.