Colorizing a Black & White Image

Start by opening a black & white image.

Take tan as a foreground color. Using pen tool draw a path covering face area.

Similarly create a path covering his arms.

Change the layer mode to color of all the path layers.

Take a different shade of brown as a foreground color. Create path covering the guitar.

Change the layer mode to color. Move this layer below the arms path layers in layer order in layer palette.

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2 Responses to “Colorizing a Black & White Image”

1. Clarky Says:
   July 1st, 2006 at 8:39 am

   Very nice tutorial, you must have done it to a very good degree selecting pixel by pixel. The result is really nice.

   I’ll mark it as good on GT.com

2. muresan113 Says:
   August 22nd, 2006 at 4:38 pm

   good job! it is a little bit of work to do, but the result makes it worth, although depends of the picture you’re trying to colorize.

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