Basic PhotoShop Skill: Adding Colors to Black and White Photos
By Yan • May 9th, 2007 • Category: Photoshop TutorialsPage 3 of 4: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Step 4: Adding Color to the Background
Although the skin tone has been adjusted, and a few colors added to simulate make-up, the picture still looked bland. This was due mostly to the fact that the shade of the background was similar to the shade of the skin. There was a sense of color uniformity, and some dramatic variation was needed.
I went back to my original image, which at that time was still invisible, and duplicated that image. I then made the duplicated image visible and dragged it to the top of my Layers palette. The new, still black and white, image was now the top layer.
With the new layer as the active layer, I then set a tint of blue as my Foreground color. Then, I went to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, and again played with the slider until I got this:
The background color was perfect, but I needed to get rid of that part of me covered in blue. So, I created a Layer Mask on my blue layer and masked out everything but the background. Once done, the changes I earlier made on the lower layers peeked through:
The image now looked like a colored photograph, with virtually no traces of its black and white origin.
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Yan (a.k.a. Yannie, YanYan) is a young-ish entrepreneur, writer, poet, artist, graphic designer, web geek, lover, friend, daughter, connoisseur, gourmand, amateur chef, coffee addict, control freak, and incessant dreamer. Not necessarily in that order.
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Wow Yan! What else CAN’T you do?
er…lose weight?
Hayyyyy…ka-gwapa.
ehem2x liwat sa manghud…lol
guapa ka kaayo. the three of you are all beautiful. thanks to me.
naks! my MOM, the new web addict, has found her way here. hahahahaha. hi, mom. happy mothers’ day! we love you!
Cool ^_^ Nice color combinations
turning a grayscale pic into colored is way a difficult task. XD
I had an annoying aunt ask me how to do this just this weekend. I’m the goto girl for any thing involving computers or photographs. Ugh.
I wont tell her I’ve learned.
buffy, your secret’s safe with me. now go slay those vampires. (gosh, i’m lame. lol)
wow! galing! its good seein filipinos makin photoshop tutorials! lol.. obvious sa pic na pinay ka.
wow! tapos bisaya pajud! BISDAK! yea! im an avid “photoshop tutorials” fan.. haha.. its way easier than experimenting. lol
hi, edz! thanks! hahaha. obvious na obvious talaga ha? hehehe.
i honestly want to write more tutorials (friends have been bugging me to teach them some more tricks), but i can’t seem to find the time.
kaya heto, my blog is littered with (uhm) posts of a more personal nature. hahaha.
edz, where’s your blog? leave me a link so that i can check your work out.
and if you have some ideas for tutorials, please let me know.
hahaha. BISDAK kaayo ko! bisaya pod ka?
kaluoy ni she!
apila pud intawn xa… 
hi, vicky? you’re friends with my sister She^? apil man sya. tanawa unsay gisulti ni mommy. hehehe. mas maayo pod di na lang sya muapil diri kay dako na kaayo ang lalis kung kinsay pinaka-gwapa. di man gud nila ma-accept na ako jud. hahahah.
joke, joke!
Very interested in your tutorial!!!!
wow, Romy! Been to your multiply site. You don’t need photoshop at all. Your pictures are great!
interesting
Sweet tip, just what I have been looking for! Well Pleased…
hi.,,..can i make use of your tutorial
sure, nooman.
Nice job with this share some great info will come real usefull.
hello yan!!! im glad you have this site…helping us to realize what’s in our imanginations…hehehe. Im fond checking the tutorials here. Can i request for a tutorial on how to manipulate the photos of my idol rarindra prakarsa. Hope to hear from you soon. Please inform me for updates. thanks!
ryan
Alam mo lahat ng ginawa mo …
gimp lang!!!!!