Add color

[superstar4410]

Ok, I have been playing around with coloring black and white pictures and I'm having lots of fun with it.

One thing is that it is hard to color things that are extremely dark.
For example, if a lady has really dark hair and I want to color it a full blond color how can I do that.

My coloring process at the moment involves creating a layer on top of what I want to color, painting on that layer and using blending options(soft light) to add the color affect.



Thanks

 

[ljiljana]

Hi, superstar4410

Check this tread in Quick- tips & Techniques Forum: Black To Blondie

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25386&highlight=#25386,


You will find two tutorials there, enjoy and pls post your results.


Hope this helps.

 

[Welles]

Good one, Lily, I'd forgotten about that one.

However, superstar4410, I did remember a long thread on colorizing here...

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3195&highlight=oh+grace

which was based in large part on this tutorial on colorization...

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161018

 

[superstar4410]

File attached

Thanks,
This is a far better way to color.


It seems that the attach file option is not working for me,
so I'll just upload it to my ftp site when I get back on campus sunday

 

[superstar4410]

Ok here are my coloring samples


http://www.talesbymoonlight.com/color.jpg



http://www.talesbymoonlight.com/color2.jpg

 

[ljiljana]

superstar4410

Not bad.

Just a few notes: Make more acurate selections ( see the right eye - white is overlaping the iris, and the lips - color is around the lips).

Coloring using adjustment layers and curves needs a practice to get it right.

 

[Welles]

Nice work superstar4410! I like your choice of colors.

Critically speaking those were good observations Lily.

 

[superstar4410]

Cool, thanks for the feedback,


Yea thats a big part when you start making really time consuming projects, making sure your selection is just right