How to change a shirt color in a video.

To change a shirt color in a video, describe the shirt and its new color in one sentence, like “make his white shirt navy blue,” and an AI video editor such as Aisma recolors it across the whole clip. No photo is needed. By hand, you can key the color in Premiere, After Effects or CapCut.

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Paid editing · MP4 or MOV · 2–60 seconds · Review credits before generating.

Updated October 19, 2026

A color change needs words, not a photo.
Face, movement, framing and sound stay as filmed.
Priced per second, shown before you generate.

Before → AfterOriginal

Real Aisma edit

Same terrace, two new looks.

Two real Aisma edits of one 10-second clip, each made from a single written request and no photo. Pick a look to watch its full edit.

Example requestchange his linen jacket to a black leather jacket

Watch the original video · Watch the full Aisma edit: Black leather. · Watch the full Aisma edit: Black tie.

What stays

Face, hair and movement
The rest of the outfit, when you say to keep it
The background, the light and the camera

What changes

The color of the shirt you name
Or the whole garment, if you describe a new one

What you bring

A clip + one sentence with the new color

FOUR WAYS

Four ways to recolor
a shirt on video.

Recoloring by hand comes down to a key. You select the shirt’s color, keep the selection on the shirt, then shift it to the new color. That works well on a plain shirt in steady light. Skin, wood and walls in similar tones make it harder, because they fall into the same key.

White and black shirts are the hard case for a key: shifting the hue barely changes them, so you have to rework lightness and saturation by hand. Aisma works from the request instead of a key, so you simply name the color you want.

Four ways to change a shirt color in a video, compared
	Premiere HSL Secondary	After Effects Change To Color	CapCut HSL	Aisma
What you do	Pick the shirt with the eyedropper, refine the key, then grade it with the color wheel	Set the color to change from, the color to change to and the tolerances	Sample the shirt’s color, then move its hue, saturation and lightness sliders	Name the shirt and the new color in a sentence
Keeping it on the shirt	Draw a mask and track it	Add a mask, or isolate the shirt with Roto Brush	The change applies to that color across the frame	Aisma changes the shirt you name
What you need	Adobe Premiere	After Effects	The CapCut desktop app	Aisma on the web or in the app, plus credits

The manual steps follow Adobe’s and CapCut’s own documentation as of October 19, 2026; menu names can differ in older versions.

METHOD 1 · AISMA

Recolor a shirt
with one sentence.

Add your video
Any clip of 2 to 60 seconds and up to 500 MB, as MP4 or MOV, vertical, square or horizontal.
Name the shirt and the color
Say which shirt and which color, like “make his white shirt navy blue,” and what has to stay as it is.
Check credits, then generate
Choose a quality, check the credits on the Generate button and collect the result in your private Library.

Try it on your video

Try this request
on your video.

The clip at the top goes further than a color change: one sentence asked for a new jacket and a new shirt color, with no photo. Here is the prompt behind the black leather look, word for word.

The white shirt came back as a plain black T-shirt under the new jacket, and his face, the terrace and the sunset light stayed as filmed. A color-only request is the simpler version of the same thing: name the garment, name the color and leave the cut alone.

We ran it once at 720p and kept the result. The 10-second shot would cost 80 credits at today’s rate.

Try it on your video

The brief we sent, word for word

Change his beige linen jacket and white shirt to a black leather jacket over a plain black T-shirt. Keep his face, hair, head movement, the stone terrace, the sea, the sunset light and the camera.

10 seconds · 720p · no photos · first run kept

METHOD 2 · ADOBE PREMIERE

Key the shirt with
HSL Secondary.

Adobe’s instructions for HSL Secondary name changing the color of an object as one of its uses. In the Color workspace, open the HSL Secondary tab of the Lumetri Color panel and click the shirt with the Set color eyedropper.

Turn on Color/Gray to see what the key picked up, then narrow the H, S and L ranges until only the shirt shows. Denoise and Blur clean up the edges. Grade the key with the color wheel to move the shirt to its new color.

If the key catches skin or the background, draw a mask around the shirt and use the mask tracking controls so it follows the person through the clip.

METHOD 3 · AFTER EFFECTS

Swap one color
for another.

After Effects has an effect named for the job. Change To Color replaces a color you pick with another one, using hue, lightness and saturation, and leaves other colors alone; tolerance sliders decide how close a pixel has to be to count.

Like any key, it changes every matching pixel in the frame. When skin or the background is close in color, limit it with a mask or isolate the shirt first with Roto Brush.

METHOD 4 · CAPCUT

Shift the hue
in CapCut.

In CapCut’s desktop editor, open Adjust in the panel on the right and choose HSL. CapCut’s HSL controls work one color at a time: sample the shirt with the color picker, then move the hue, saturation and lightness of that color.

It’s quick, and it’s broad: everything in that color range shifts, so a red shirt next to a red car changes both. Check the whole frame before you export.

WRITING THE REQUEST

Name the exact shade
you have in mind.

“Blue” leaves room for interpretation; “navy,” “royal blue” and “sky blue” don’t. Name the shade, and the finish if it matters, such as matte, faded or heathered.

Then name anything that must keep its color. When we replaced the man in a kitchen clip of ours with a different person, the first runs asked to keep “the blue T-shirt” and changed its color anyway. Spelling it out on the second run, “bright royal-blue crew-neck T-shirt,” kept it.

If the shirt has a print, a logo or stripes, say whether they stay. Small lettering can change in the edit, so proofread it before the clip runs in an ad.

We also tested the plainest request there is on a 5-second vertical clip: “Make her t-shirt bright red.” It cost 40 credits at 720p, and the shirt came back red.

REQUESTS TO BORROW

Color changes
for real clips.

Wording to adapt for your own clips; these weren’t rendered for this page. Use your garment and your shade.

Etsy T-shirt shop
Make the T-shirt on the model forest green. Keep the print on the chest.
Shopify colorway video
Change her hoodie from gray to heather blue. Keep the white drawstrings.
School spirit week
Make his polo maroon. Keep the logo and his khakis.
Real estate intro
Change my red shirt to light blue. Keep my face and the kitchen behind me.
Wedding party clip
Make all the groomsmen’s ties sage green. Keep their suits black.
Part of the clip
Make his shirt black from 0:04 to the end.

WHAT IT COSTS

A recolor is priced
like any other edit.

At 720p a recolor uses 8 credits per second; at 1080p, 16. A photo doesn’t change the rate.
Our 5-second test came to 40 credits at 720p; the 10-second terrace clip would be 80.
You see the exact number before you press Generate, and anything unused goes back to your balance.

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A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS

Shirt colors,
answered.

Do I need a photo to change a shirt color?

No. The name of the color is enough. Add a photo when the new shirt has a pattern or design that has to match exactly, such as your own product.

Can I turn a white shirt black, or a black one white?

Yes, describe the color you want. In the terrace edit at the top, a white shirt became a black T-shirt from words alone, as part of a jacket change. In an editor, white and black are the hardest to change, because shifting the hue barely touches them.

Will the logo or print on the shirt stay?

Ask for it in the request, like “keep the logo on the chest,” then check it in the result. Small lettering can come back changed, so read it before you post.

Can the color change partway through the clip?

Yes. Add the time, for example “make his shirt red from 0:05 to the end.” Before 0:05, the shirt stays as filmed.

What kind of clips work best?

Clips where the shirt stays in view under even light. Our terrace clip is one take with the jacket and shirt filling the lower half of the frame for all 10 seconds. Arms that cross the shirt are fine; they just give the color more edges to follow.

Does recoloring a shirt change anything else in the video?

It shouldn’t. If something nearby shares the shirt’s color, name it in a keep line, like “keep the red car behind him,” so it stays as filmed. Your audio, length and framing stay the same.

Can I change the color of other clothes the same way?

Yes: pants, dresses, jackets, hats or shoes. Name the item and the color, and put each item in its own sentence.

How long can the clip be?

From 2 to 60 seconds, as MP4 or MOV, up to 500 MB. The result comes back in 720p or 1080p with the same length and framing.

Are these real results?

Yes. Both terrace looks at the top are real Aisma edits, each made from one written request with no photo. Before → After views show the original and the edit at the same moment of the clip, never cropped, sped up or retouched. Your result depends on your clip and request.