Having trouble changing the color of a paper

[andyapc]

Grrrr - have no idea why this isn't working. I'm working in PSCS2.

I have 2 sheets of paper open; one is a floral print, the other is a monochromatic paper with a bit of texture on it.

I want the monochromatic paper to be the same shade as the floral. So, using my color picker, I have my foreground color set to the shade of yellow I picked from the floral paper. With my mono paper active, I go under Image>Adjustments>Hue&Saturation and click the "colorize" option.

Instead of the yellow, the mono paper is turning a kind of tannish/grayish color. I've confirmed that I'm in RGB mode 'cuz I thought I was in grayscale for a minute.

Then I tried putting a color overlay on the paper (in my layer styles in my layers palette) but it hides the texture on the mono paper and if I decrease the opacity, it's not the right color. None of the blend modes look right either, so I gave up on this option.

The "match color" option under Adjustments doesn't give me a good result either.

I really want to use that colorize option, but I can't figure out why it's not working. Or, it is really working and this is the best result I can get? Isn't it supposed to recolor to the foreground color?

[mimsmom]

I use PSE3, so I don't know if this will be much help for you, but when I click "colorize" I sometimes have to mess around with the hue, saturation and lightness sliders. I just try to match it to the color in my foreground color box.

[Lauren Grier]

ditto... sometimes things won't colourize perfectly based on what colour was there originally. If you mess with the levels, saturation & brightness/contrast you should be able to get it where you need it :)

[andyapc]

Yep - that was it.

Apparently the Hue was fine - I had to adjust the saturation all the way over to the right. Which is weird because I don't ever recall having to do that before. Maybe I messed up a setting somewhere?

Thank you!