PS: Colorize Tutorial (english)

Ryan (not active) · PS: Colorize Tutorial (english)

heres an english tutorial for colorizing. You use this techinque for every part of the picture.

this tutorial only shows the eye, but you can do it with everything Laughing

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First make the canvas. Make sure it is in RGB colour, or the colorizing won't work.

Paste your pic. Remeber it should be black/white/grey.

Press "Q" to go into Quick Mask mode.

Using normal brush, size small. example 3 - 5 pixels, go around the area you wish to colour. It should come out in a red outline like the image below.

Use the paint bucket to fill in the area you DON'T WANT TO BE COLOURED YET. For example here - at the moment we only want the eye to be coloured, so we use the paint bucket to red mask everything else.

Now, press "Q" to leave quick mask mode. The area you left uncovered by mask (in this case the eye) should be selected automatically.

With that still selected, click the small circle which is half black half half grey at the bottom of your layers pallette, and click "Color Balance"

Then the color Balnace pop up should, wel..pop up Laughing

here you can move the scroll bars either way to add less or more of each colour to get the perfect combination. Here I wanted a green. It's a bit brighter than a natural look, but I wanted it to be noticeable on tutorial Laughing

And then you're done Very Happy

Just keep going witht he rest of your pics using the same technique to add colour. Colour the skin, mouth, clothes etc Smile

Even make up if you want it on Laughing

tip for hair: Often you dnt need to colour the hair naturally. When you colour the skin, include the hair and it should go to a natural looking colour matching the skin tone you're using Wink

I used this colorizing technique to make a bright purple eye for a colorizing challenge: (mine wasn't supposed to look realistic)

I didn't colorize the skin because I didn't want to take notice away from the eye, but there you have it!! It's really really easy once you gt the hang of it.

Try using the same eye pic as used in tutorial, and paste here the colorization you made with it Very Happy

it would be cool to see what you all make Very Happy

This is the pic:

Picutre from moonlight colours, who had got the pic from sxc.hu

Isabel

My first try Rolling Eyes

It's not very beautifal Wink

Caroline

I think it was very beautiful Isabel

Isabel

Thanks Caroline!!

Esperanza

here goes mine Laughing

Isabel

Esperanza

I wanted it to look realistic, not that fantasy as ryan's Laughing

Ryan (not active)

haha yeah

Mine was a contest NOT to look realisitc Laughing

christ@

hey i have a question when i puss Q and go round they eye there comes now red line
How i that possible

Emma

do you use photoshop or paint shop pro?

Ryan

A red line is supposed to appear, this is just the pen making the selection, once you press Q again it changed into a selection, it doesnt stay red.

christ@

I have photoshop 7.0 but when i have press Q and i begin there comes nog red its so weird!

Emma

dat moet ook Christa! Als je alles rood omlijnd heb, vul je alles wat je niet moet kleuren
daarna druk je weer op q en is het rode weer weg!!

christ@

Jah maar ik druk eerst op q en dan wil ik beginnen met die rode lijn hea om het te om lijnen maar dat komt er niet.
Er komt geen rood zeg maar. als ik met die kwast doe dan komt er geen rood op het plaatje.l
IK vind het ingewikkelt om uit teleggen