Painting color over B&W

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Tony Cooper
Jan 16, 2004
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I’ve scanned a very old black & white photograph and edited it. I’ve converted it from grayscale to RGB. (Although I still have the grayscale version).

It’s photograph of a young girl in a summer dress. I’d like to add a light color just to the dress.,,,nothing else.

Somewhere – here, I think, – read about a setting that allows you to paint a color over the dress so that the pattern and folds of the dress show through the color.

I thought the setting was "overlay" with a low opacity and/or flow setting. But, when I do this, the first brushstroke is fine, but subsequent strokes build up the color where the strokes overlap.

I tried creating a path and filling the path, but the color is darker in shaded areas.

How can I paint over an area with a uniform color allowing what’s under the color to show?

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Voivod
Jan 16, 2004
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:36:42 GMT, Tony Cooper
scribbled:

I’ve scanned a very old black & white photograph and edited it. I’ve converted it from grayscale to RGB. (Although I still have the grayscale version).

It’s photograph of a young girl in a summer dress. I’d like to add a light color just to the dress.,,,nothing else.

Somewhere – here, I think, – read about a setting that allows you to paint a color over the dress so that the pattern and folds of the dress show through the color.

I thought the setting was "overlay" with a low opacity and/or flow setting. But, when I do this, the first brushstroke is fine, but subsequent strokes build up the color where the strokes overlap.
I tried creating a path and filling the path, but the color is darker in shaded areas.

How can I paint over an area with a uniform color allowing what’s under the color to show?

Try creating a new layer, filling that layer with the color you want the dress then add a layer mask and mask out all the things you don’t want to be colorized.
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Stewy
Jan 16, 2004
First you need to outline the skirt using the pen tool or lasso (whichever is easier for you to work with) then create a new layer and copy the outlined area to the new layer.
Drag this new layer to the top – in the layers pallet – and choose <Colour> from the Blend Mode drop down list. Depending on what foreground colour you’ve selected (or not) this will apply colour to the skirt – you can change this colour in the Hue/Saturation pallet at any time. Hope this helps…

"Tony Cooper" wrote in message
I’ve scanned a very old black & white photograph and edited it. I’ve converted it from grayscale to RGB. (Although I still have the grayscale version).

It’s photograph of a young girl in a summer dress. I’d like to add a light color just to the dress.,,,nothing else.

Somewhere – here, I think, – read about a setting that allows you to paint a color over the dress so that the pattern and folds of the dress show through the color.

I thought the setting was "overlay" with a low opacity and/or flow setting. But, when I do this, the first brushstroke is fine, but subsequent strokes build up the color where the strokes overlap.
I tried creating a path and filling the path, but the color is darker in shaded areas.

How can I paint over an area with a uniform color allowing what’s under the color to show?
TC
Tony Cooper
Jan 16, 2004
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:52:28 +0900, "Stewy"
wrote:

First you need to outline the skirt using the pen tool or lasso (whichever is easier for you to work with) then create a new layer and copy the outlined area to the new layer.
Drag this new layer to the top – in the layers pallet – and choose <Colour> from the Blend Mode drop down list. Depending on what foreground colour you’ve selected (or not) this will apply colour to the skirt – you can change this colour in the Hue/Saturation pallet at any time. Hope this helps…

Thanks to you and Vovoid for two good suggestions.
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edjh
Jan 16, 2004
Tony Cooper wrote:
I’ve scanned a very old black & white photograph and edited it. I’ve converted it from grayscale to RGB. (Although I still have the grayscale version).

It’s photograph of a young girl in a summer dress. I’d like to add a light color just to the dress.,,,nothing else.

Somewhere – here, I think, – read about a setting that allows you to paint a color over the dress so that the pattern and folds of the dress show through the color.

I thought the setting was "overlay" with a low opacity and/or flow setting. But, when I do this, the first brushstroke is fine, but subsequent strokes build up the color where the strokes overlap.
I tried creating a path and filling the path, but the color is darker in shaded areas.

How can I paint over an area with a uniform color allowing what’s under the color to show?
Try painting UNDER the B&W. Make a new layer under the original (double-click on Background in the palette to turn it into layer) and set the B&W to Multiply. Paint on the new layer underneath.


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Jan 16, 2004
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edjh wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote:

I’ve scanned a very old black & white photograph and edited it. I’ve converted it from grayscale to RGB. (Although I still have the grayscale version).

It’s photograph of a young girl in a summer dress. I’d like to add a light color just to the dress.,,,nothing else.

Somewhere – here, I think, – read about a setting that allows you to paint a color over the dress so that the pattern and folds of the dress show through the color.
I thought the setting was "overlay" with a low opacity and/or flow setting. But, when I do this, the first brushstroke is fine, but subsequent strokes build up the color where the strokes overlap.
I tried creating a path and filling the path, but the color is darker in shaded areas.

How can I paint over an area with a uniform color allowing what’s under the color to show?

Try painting UNDER the B&W. Make a new layer under the original (double-click on Background in the palette to turn it into layer) and set the B&W to Multiply. Paint on the new layer underneath.
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Larry Hibbs
Jan 18, 2004
Use Microsoft Picture it and its easy
"Tony Cooper" wrote in message
I’ve scanned a very old black & white photograph and edited it. I’ve converted it from grayscale to RGB. (Although I still have the grayscale version).

It’s photograph of a young girl in a summer dress. I’d like to add a light color just to the dress.,,,nothing else.

Somewhere – here, I think, – read about a setting that allows you to paint a color over the dress so that the pattern and folds of the dress show through the color.

I thought the setting was "overlay" with a low opacity and/or flow setting. But, when I do this, the first brushstroke is fine, but subsequent strokes build up the color where the strokes overlap.
I tried creating a path and filling the path, but the color is darker in shaded areas.

How can I paint over an area with a uniform color allowing what’s under the color to show?
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Don Belgum
Jan 24, 2004
Sure this is easy and fun.
Just make a new layer using Ctrl J and colour the area you want in a single colour using the paintbrush tool.
Now go back to the layer pallet and select the small arrowhead at the top which will give you a list of blending modes. Pick ‘color’ which is near the bottom and, like magic, the colour will pick up the lights and shades and the texture of the underlying picture.

Don
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Tony Cooper
Jan 24, 2004
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:26:22 -0000, "Don Belgum" wrote:

Sure this is easy and fun.
Just make a new layer using Ctrl J and colour the area you want in a single colour using the paintbrush tool.
Now go back to the layer pallet and select the small arrowhead at the top which will give you a list of blending modes. Pick ‘color’ which is near the bottom and, like magic, the colour will pick up the lights and shades and the texture of the underlying picture.

There have been other suggestions, but this works the best. Ta.

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