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Colorizing
in Photoshop 6.0:
After
a brief inspection of these flowers here, it seems there is nothing
one could do to make this photo [flower 1] any better. However it
is a perfect candidate for colorizing the petals and B&W (grayscale)
the rest. There are two reasons. First, the more bright the color
the better the colorize looks; and second, having one article of
clothing or one object of interest is what is important about colorizing.
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Flower
1
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Flower
2
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Flower
3
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Flower
4
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Flower
5
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Step
1: Crop it and duplicate the image so you have two open copies (the
little (...) button in the history tab).
Step 2: B&W one of the open versions. The most common error
I've seen is people just discarding the color info. This is inaccurate
as PS doesn't know from which channel to extract the gray values,
so use the channel mixer set to monochrome. The values for a good
place to start are R-40 G-40 B-40. The lower you drop the red value
and increase the other two, the more wet the textures will look
[flower 2].
Step 3: Now here, many people just grab the airbrush and set it
to COLOR with bright Purple. You end up with something like this
[flower 3]. OUCH! Something is wrong. Number one the color is too
rich and number two it's not even close to the actual color. So
to get it right, select the other open version of the flower that
is still colored. Enter Quick Mask mode and sloppily paint (select)
the areas of color (petals) with the paint tool or airbrush. Come
out of quick mask and COPY the dress into RAM.
Step 4: Paste it into the B&W image. It may not line up so just
drop the opacity of the layer and move it to get it lined up. You
will end up with this [flower 4]. The benefits are that you can
now erase at will the green areas that you don't want colored and
now if you want to change the color with Hue/Saturation you can.
Step 5: Also to keep the color from being too rich, simply drop
the opacity to taste like so [flower 5].
That's it. This method is also useful for changing the color of
something as well as colorizing.
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