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Colorizing Black and White Photos |
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Saturday, 15 September 2007 |
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Step 9
Here's the final results after colorizing a black and white photo with Photoshop. Now you can see I didn't really do a good job with the painting, but I can always touch up the layer masks.
Step 10
This is what it looks like after I retouched the skin tone slightly and the layer masks (to make them more precise). For the skin tone, I changed the hue slightly. It was very slight and fine tuning but the results are huge. The previous color I thought was right looked like she had jaundice or some sickness, but I chose a more red hue with less yellow and this is what her skin looks like. What I also missed was a whole blotch of color on her hand near the right edge. There was a gray blotch there that I didn't notice earlier. But after noticing it, I was able to fix it up by painting the layer mask. Again, non-destructive layer masks are the way to go for almost every project. You can go back and modify them without undoing a bunch of steps. Colorizing black and white photos with just one layer like many tutorials out there teach you may be faster in the beginning, but if you want good results, using layer masks will save you a lot more time in the end.
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written by anil, October 06, 2007
Its Simply Fantastic, Mind Blowing work, Its great job dear.
written by Kim, October 08, 2007
If you use the color balance feature using a similar method (layering up each different colored feather and erasing the surrounding), you have a lot more control of the color using the shadows, midtones, highlights functions and the color sliders. I've gotten much better results with this.
Then additionally you can use other tools on each layers such as burn, dodge, blur, etc. to get precise color and shading.
written by Shuaib,the graphic designer, October 10, 2007
Dear friend thank you very much for this post.
written by sampat kantilal bhawar ahmednagar maharshtra india, October 30, 2007
This tutorial is very good and very clear
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please provide such this like tutorial to all web designer to make them perfect in photoshop.
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once again thank's
i am really love this tutorial.
written by mikeG, December 09, 2007
I dont get how u got the color so exact in on the first picture of the second page, i tried a b&w picture, did it brown, but didnt match like that. please help!