Colorize Black and White Photos

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Tutorial

Click on thumbnailed images to enlarge

Open the image it must be black and white


Create a new adjustment layer by clicking the button outlined in the picture.


Select "hue/saturation" from the menu that comes up.


Check the "colorize" box.


Press ctrl + i to invert.


Make sure your foreground is set to white, and background to black.


Select the paintbrush tool.


Start drawing over the image where you want the color.

Now just do the same thing for everything else that needs color.

Now your Finished


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Oh my dog! I love it! :D
Mine turned out like this: [[yes, I know I screwed up the lips]]
http://i137.photobucke t.com/albums/q237/tre_is_da_bo mb/recolorablackandwhite.jpg

By Blue--Skittle-Love on Jan 24, 2008 6:44 pm

wow, this is really cool. i never knew this could be done! good job! :D



By manny-the-dino on Aug 23, 2007 11:02 pm

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Author Gregory1907 View profile
Submitted on Aug 22, 2007
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Approved on Aug 23, 2007

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