B&W to Color

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chorz
Mar 4, 2004
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I found a tutorial to help me add color to a black and white photo but I can’t seem to locate it. The tutorial showed me how to add color to different parts of the photo depending on what I selected.

Does anyone have any info. on switching a b&w photo to color?

Thanks!

Photoshop 7.0

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Ol__Whozit
Mar 4, 2004
Try any search engine with the keywords "coloring b&w photo tutorial."
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chorz
Mar 4, 2004
Thanks!

I think it’s quite simple.

What I do is use a selection tool (like the lasso tool) to select an area, then use the color balance to adjust color to what I like. It seems simple enough.

Is that how it’s done?
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Marshall_Ponzi
Mar 5, 2004
Hey Ol What’s It.

I see your posts in this forum, "Go search this" "Go search that."

Do you have anything productive to offer, other than how to write search queries? If not, why bother posting? That attitude doesn’t help anyone.
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r_harvey
Mar 5, 2004
That attitude doesn’t help anyone.

It helps Ol’ feel good.
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Gary_Hummell
Mar 6, 2004
Actually a lot of beginners in Photoshop are not aware of the huge number of tutorials available on the web. I think Ol Whozit posted a useful response in that sense.

Gary
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chadda
Mar 6, 2004
OW is a bitch. Just ignore her.
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Robert_Levine
Mar 6, 2004
chadda,

Please take your own advice and spare us the personal attacks.

Bob
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chadda
Mar 6, 2004
Well, I think it’s important that any newbies, oldies should be informed about possible attacks by people who lurk only in order to insult in a nasty way, for absolutely no reason.

If someone uses big words and and seemingly nicely phrased ways that cut the questioneer to ribbons before her/she realizes it, should that not be censored, too?

By the way, chorz, try the paintbrush tool on a really light level and attempt to paint that in. Unfortunately, once the image is in B/W, one cannot revert back to the way it was possibly colored.

However, look at the feedom that you have in order to color this image! Is this for a really impending project? Do you have time to play with the brush tool? You can really have fun with this if time is not a terrible option.

Please provide guidelines? 🙂
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TempusMn
Mar 6, 2004
Just make a new layer or layers, set its/their mode to "color" and paint right on it. If you want precision, select only the areas you want colorized, then paint. That technique also allows you to adjust your opacity on the fly instead of messing with saturation all the time.

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