Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ January 1st, 2006
| Colorizing a Black & White photograph |
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In this tutorial you’ll learn how to colorize a black & white photograph. The trick is to select a particular area of an image with a similar shade of color and then colorizing that area using color range.
Start by opening any B&W image that you want to colorize.
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| Use magic wand tool (W) to select one range of color. |
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| Press shift and with magic wand, click on more areas to add to your selection. |
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| You can smooth out the selections by appling feather (Ctrl + Alt +D) |
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| From image menu select adjust>>color balance (Ctrl + B). In color balance window drag color sliders to achieve the color of your choice. |
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| You can see that selected portion is changed from B&W to colored without compromising on the texture. |
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| Similarly we selected areas of tree and colored these areas to green. |
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| We selected doors and color them red in a similar way. Your output depends upon your quality of selection. Finer the selection, better the output. |
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| Similarly make the clouds blue using color range. |
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| After you are done with colorizing all portions, enhance the image a little bit by adjusting saturation values. Select Image>>adjustments>>hue saturation. |
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| Increase saturation to enhance the color quality of the image. |
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| Our B&W image is converted to a colored one. |
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