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You can also save the colors as color swatches for use later. You will get different results by using different reference photos. This also works when you are colorizing a painting or sketch. You can use this tutorial to colorize any black and white photo. Move the hue to choose a color, Saturation to vary the amount of color.Īnd we are done. (3) Lightness enables you to add color to white, by slightly lowering the lightness, or add color to black by increasing it. Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, Make a selection around the Turtleneck sweater with the quick selection brush.Ĭhoose a color.

#COLORIZE BW PHOTO HOW TO#

Related tutorial: How to change eye color in Photoshopĭon’t forget the ears, sampling from the reference for the outside and inside.Ĭreate a new layer, call it sweater. Fine tune the color and you will probably have to reduce the saturation. (4) Press Cmd/Ctrl+U for Hue Saturation (Or even better, use an adjustment layer). Remember a little bit of color goes a long way. (3) Create a new layer and change it to color blending mode. Don’t remove all the color, leave about 5% as pure white will look ghoulish. (2) With a black brush, carefully paint away the color. (1) Create a layer mask on the color layer Make sure to get the details such as pink on the inside of the eye lids

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Sample from the reference photo and paint the additional skin tones using a low brush opacity. Notice I have sampled and painted some of the color onto the background as a paint palette. The chin and jaw reflect the clothing and also can be a little bluish/green because of stubble.

The cheeks and nose are more fleshy, and have more blood vessels and thus appear more reddish. The forehead and top of head has thinner skin as thus can appear more yellowish. Paint over the hair, as well as the beard and eyebrows, Make sure to sample the colors often as facial hair can be different tones. Hold down alt/Option and sample the hair color (4) Paint over the entire face to put down a flat color. (3) Hold down alt/Option and click on the reference photo to sample the basic skin color. This will sample the average value of 35 surrounding pixels and give an more accurate reading. Change sample size to 5×5 and select all layers from select. I grabbed one from Adobe stock for free, see the video to see how to get it into Photoshop. I downloaded the reference photo and dropped it onto the top layer so we can steal the color from it. The key to getting realistic color is to use a reference photo. (3) Change to color blending mode, so only the color will change when you paint. You don’t have to worry about painting outside the lines. This will create a clipping group and keep all painting within the shape of the cutout.

(2) Hold down the alt/Option key and lick between the new layer and the underlaying layer. If you are on Photoshop CC 2019 or newer, choose Select Subject. Let’s make it easy to paint within the lines (optional)Ĭhoose Quick select and make a selection. If the image is grayscale, choose Image>Mode>RGB, Now you can colorize it. The photos Ive used in this tutorial from Adobe Stock

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You can find historic photos that are free to use and public domain from the Library of Congress Let me know if you like this ,ore concise style, or prefer basic individual steps. I have created the written notes in a style that I use when I write my books. The video goes in detail through all the steps. For hand tinted, lower the opacity of the color layer at the end. The following steps can be used to create a very realistic result, or you can adapt them for a painterly look or even hand tinted. This week we are looking at how to take a black and white photo and turn it into a color photo.

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