Tutorial Dog

If you follow the NBA, you’ll know Jason Kidd was traded from the Nets to the Dallas Mavericks. (While I like Jason Kidd and he is a great player, giving up Devin Harris was stupid on Mark Cuban’s part). If you’re like me and want the wallpaper of his shoe to match his current team colors instead of his old team colors, then you’ll have to turn to Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial will show you the best way to change the colors of the shoe easily and quickly.

You may already know since Photoshop CS 2, there is the color replacement brush, but the tool isn’t always the most effective tool. The color replacement tool also applies it modifications directly on the photo layer so is a “destructive” process. If you’ve played around with the color replacement tool, you’ll know that the process of using layers (as shown in this Photoshop tutorial) is basically the same process.

Get the Resources

Grab a wallpaper from the Nike Basketball website or the Jason Kidd wallpaper. We’ll also need the Dallas Maverick Team colors. For the main color, we’ll use the light blue #009CFF and accent it with the dark blue #010C22.

The orignal shoe wallpaper done in Nets team colors.

We’ll use the Mavericks team colors to re-color the shoe.

Pen Tool

Take the pen tool (set to the shape layer option) and start to outline the