And though we painted the color on with a brush, you could just as easily create a selection in myriad other ways. Tada! Think of how much fun you could have with this technique using a graphics tablet. Step 9: In our case, I decided on a peachy color (it matches my web site) and to make the effect a bit more subtle, I decreased the Saturation just a tad, as shown below. See how the dress color changes as you go? Isn’t that COOL?! YEAH baby! Step 8: In the resulting dialog box, grab the Hue slider and move it rightward. Step 7: Create an adjustment layer by pressing the half black/half white circle at the bottom of the Layers Palette, and choose Hue/Saturation. Okay, so, the purple dress is super cute but what if your client/mom/friend/sibling wants to see what it looks like in yellow? Instead of leaping off the nearest balcony, simply take a deep breath, grin smugly and do this: After painting her dress, gloves, purse and hat, here’s the little cutie all clad in purple: Press B to pick the brush back up and soldier on. If you mess up during the painting process, just press E to select the Eraser tool and fix your mistake. Step 6: As I move around in the image, I come upon places where my brush is too large, such as the little strap around her neck. Another handy tip to remember while doing detail work is that while zoomed in on your document, pressing the spacebar turns the cursor into a little hand which you can then use to mouse over to a different area of the image, like so: TIP: Press Command + (PC: Ctrl + ) to zoom in, and Command – (PC: Ctrl -) to zoom back out of your document. So as I being to paint the little girls dress, this is what I see: The neat bit is what you do in one window happens simultaneously in the other. This is going to allow us to be zoomed in really far on the image in one window, and still see what the image looks like at its normal size in another. Step 5: Since we’re about to embark upon a bit of detail work, I’m going to share a workspace trick with you before we start painting. Pick a nice pastel color from the resulting color picker and press OK. Step 4: Press B to select the Brush tool, and click on the foreground color chip at the bottom of the main Toolbar. This will allow the detail of the image to show through the paint, instead of the paint being a solid coat. Step 3: Change the blending mode of the new layer to either Color or Overlay, as shown below. This is where the new paint will live, so that we don’t screw up the original photo.
Step 2: Create a new layer by clicking the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers Palette. If you’re going to print the image on your home color inkjet or if the image is destined to live out its life only on screen, then go with RGB. NOTE: If this image will be printed professionally, then you want to choose CMYK. If the document mode is Grayscale, you won’t be allowed you to paint in color, which can be quite maddening. Step 1: Choose Image > Mode and make sure the document is set to either RGB or CMYK. Else, we won’t get very far and your frustration level with all things digital could reach an all time high 🙂
The very first thing we want to do is make sure the document is in color mode, and not grayscale.
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As a bonus, I’ll show you how to change your mind and recolorize the color you just added. Using the cutest photo *ever* (snatched from ), I’m going to show you the trick to adding color while retaining all the glorious detail of the photo. The problem, though, is that while you would succeed in adding color to the photo, you would systematically destroy any detail it once contained. It’s a really simple technique that’s fun to use, it’s great for creating visual interest, and drawing attention to a certain portion of a photo.Īdmittedly, the process of colorizing a grayscale photo certainly seems straight forward enough, in that it probably involves grabbing a paint brush and painting color onto the image itself. What I’m going to show you today is how to apply a new color to a naked image, so to speak. Now, this isn’t to be confused with taking a color image and removing its color, only to add some of it back in certain places. Adding color to a grayscale image is a neat little effect you see all over the place.
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