Carrie Underwood, Colourization Options

[Comptine]

Haven't played around with Photoshop in awhile.

Original:


Mine:


I got a little sloppy with the ends of the hair and for some reason, some kinda of peachy-pink color overlapped into the eyes. I have no idea where it came from even after going through each layer several times.

I love the eyes and the makeup.

[*mzkandi*]

She looks so pale! It looks good, though. I think it would even more exciting if you made her have a completely different hair color. Like a red head. Hmmm...can't really see Carrie as a red head.

[*davinci*]

The paler skin looks a little weirder with the lighter shade of hair. Also, never desaturate the teeth. :P I think that's the weakest part of the colorization. I agree, the eyes and makeup looks natural and great.

Edit: Haha, Kiera. That was a little weird.

[*alovesopure*]

She looks so pale! It looks good, though. I think it would even more exciting if you made her have a completely different hair color. Like a red head. Hmmm...can't really see Carrie as a red head.

Hahaha that would be odd...

I agree with Mona about the teeth, and Kiera about the hair color.
She is very pale, but it looks pretty good. The eyes are my favorite part.

[Gigi]

The paler skin looks a little weirder with the lighter shade of hair. Also, never desaturate the teeth. :P I think that's the weakest part of the colorization. I agree, the eyes and makeup looks natural and great.

Edit: Haha, Kiera. That was a little weird.

Agreed about the teeth. Don't desaturate entirely, it's a huge giveaway that it's colourized. Real teeth have some colour to them.

When I colourize, I usually start off with the grayscaled image, then I colourize the entire image to a colour as close to human flesh as possible. This usually means a reddish-orange set at a lower saturation. The teeth would be colourized to the same hue as the skin, in other words. Then I select the teeth area and lower the saturation to about 20. You retain some colour that way, while still looking natural.

[ipetpandas]

It's decent looking. To me, the colorization isn't that special, it looks the same but with more lighter tones. But it's alright. not bad.

[Relentless]

Wow her hair is.. crazy. lol.

Yeah, she does look pale. It would be nice to see if she had like black or brunette hair. lolz.

[*IVIike*]

i like it, i would have made her less pale, but other then that you did a great job

[SarahxJoy]

I like it, but her teeth look a little blue-ish in your colorization..

[xTHExDUDEx]

She actually looks far better in your colourisation than the
"original" oompa-loompa look.

[Mm-giraffe]

I think you've done a very good job, but I agree with one of the previous comments, that her teeth look a bit blueish in your colorization, other than that bravo

[Comptine]

Thanks everyone for the comments.

I wasn't going to desaturate the teeth but then I notice a horrible pink tint to them. I figured I could correct it if I desaturated them too.