Coloring a black and white image!! - Photoshop Tutorials | Photoshop Contests

**ndg** · 12-03-2007, 04:32 AM

Heres a quick and easy way to color black and white images in Photoshop.

1. Open your black and white image in Photoshop

2. Copy the image onto a new layer

3.Select the paint brush tool and set the mode to "color". I set it at 80 percent opacity. You can use whatever opacity setting you like however.

4. Star coloring it in. Decide what items should have what colors.
Yellow for the gloves, blue for overalls etc etc.

5. While coloring, I choose a darker color for the areas with more shadows.
I used two colors in this step for the face.

6.Don't worry about coloring out of the lines. You can use the
sponge brush to desaturate the areas you don't want colored.

7. Just coloring more of the image.

8.When I'm done coloring, I select Image-Adjustments-brightness/contrast,
and up the contrast a little to make everything stand out more.

The finished image!

**thediceman** · 12-03-2007, 05:23 AM

nice i really needed this tut man thanks

joshbond · 12-04-2007, 01:01 AM

That is incredible. Very nice.

**TypeO** · 12-04-2007, 12:13 PM

what I like about these tuts is learning ways of doing something or using a tool I didn't know.
I had no idea what the "color" mode for paintbrush was for. Seems obvious now

That's pretty awesome nda.

raja · 01-11-2008, 03:38 PM

there are many ways u can colorize a black and white images.Any ways tks a lot

**KrushR** · 01-11-2008, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TypeO

what I like about these tuts is learning ways of doing something or using a tool I didn't know.
I had no idea what the "color" mode for paintbrush was for. Seems obvious now

That's pretty awesome nda.

I've never known to desaturate using the sponge, either. Hell, I've never even used the sponge. Repz0rz.