How do you color pictures with photoshop?
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How do you color pictures with photoshop?
How do you color pictures with photoshop? I've seen pictures that have just been colored with photoshop and they look really nice. For someone reason coloring with photoshop has been very confusing for me. So is there any tutorial or something about how to color with photoshop?
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1. Open the photo in Photoshop
2. Make sure you are in RGB mode
3. Create a new layer
4. Change the new layer's blending mode to "Color"
5. Select your paint brush tool, and whatever color you want in the foreground color swatch and go to town.
The key is changing the blending mode to "Color". That changes the hue of the underlying pixels, without affecting their brightness (in other words, it keeps all the detail and texture intact, while changing the color)
Once everything is painted, you can adjust the hue and saturation if needed to make the image "pop" a little more.
Hope this helps, yell if you have any other questions.
1. Open the photo in Photoshop
2. Make sure you are in RGB mode
3. Create a new layer
4. Change the new layer's blending mode to "Color"
5. Select your paint brush tool, and whatever color you want in the foreground color swatch and go to town.
The key is changing the blending mode to "Color". That changes the hue of the underlying pixels, without affecting their brightness (in other words, it keeps all the detail and texture intact, while changing the color)
Once everything is painted, you can adjust the hue and saturation if needed to make the image "pop" a little more.
Hope this helps, yell if you have any other questions.
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Chris Passeno
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Agreed. It's very much like old-school airbrushing onto the actual tin. All they've done is make it digital.Kylwell wrote:There really isn't a simple answer. Hand coloring a B&W image in Photoshop takes time and skill. The less skill the more time. Changing a single color in PS (say making a pale blue car red) is a bit easiler but still takes some experimenting and skill to make it work.
It's pretty darn easy to turn a color photo into a greyscale photo, but an entirely different animal the other direction.
Well, I never said it was EASY! Just possible. There are several times I need to change the color of people's clothes to make them match, or re-paint a car or other prop as directed by the art director. It gets a bit trickier when they bring you a new prototype that has been cast in black, and they want a photo of it in White or Yellow 
I actually did take a rattle can of white primer to that one before I shot it!
...with the client's permission first.
I actually did take a rattle can of white primer to that one before I shot it!
...with the client's permission first.
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Kinda OT, but I once "developed" an illustration technique on the quick and dirty.
Client wanted a series of watercolor illustrations for a print folder, but we had just too damn little time to do them. So, instead of going all the way and actually doing full color watercolors, we decided to have one of us (a good watercolorist, mind you) do a quick all-gray inkwash illustration (it was to be fruits and vegetables), so she didn't waste time getting good colors, rinsing the brush etc. Once scanned in, we colored the drawings on Photoshop. Quick, easy and done in no time!
And the point: if the client doesn't know which color he'll want for the final ad, paint the thing gray for the photoshoot (only if it is a product—you don't want to paint the lingerie models gray). Much easier to darken to make it black, lighten to make it white and to colorize it to be red, green, blue or whatever. Just remember to have it glossy or matte (or even paint it glossy gray, then, after shooting it a bit, give it a matte (quick drying) coat then shoot at the same approximate angle.
To make a real lifelike colorization, remember that every camera, be it film or digital gives out full color film grain or sensor noise, so after the color layer is ok, give it a noise filter to mimic that effect, but remember to make it full color (not monochromatic, as there is an option in Photoshop for it).
Client wanted a series of watercolor illustrations for a print folder, but we had just too damn little time to do them. So, instead of going all the way and actually doing full color watercolors, we decided to have one of us (a good watercolorist, mind you) do a quick all-gray inkwash illustration (it was to be fruits and vegetables), so she didn't waste time getting good colors, rinsing the brush etc. Once scanned in, we colored the drawings on Photoshop. Quick, easy and done in no time!
And the point: if the client doesn't know which color he'll want for the final ad, paint the thing gray for the photoshoot (only if it is a product—you don't want to paint the lingerie models gray). Much easier to darken to make it black, lighten to make it white and to colorize it to be red, green, blue or whatever. Just remember to have it glossy or matte (or even paint it glossy gray, then, after shooting it a bit, give it a matte (quick drying) coat then shoot at the same approximate angle.
To make a real lifelike colorization, remember that every camera, be it film or digital gives out full color film grain or sensor noise, so after the color layer is ok, give it a noise filter to mimic that effect, but remember to make it full color (not monochromatic, as there is an option in Photoshop for it).
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