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What Program to Use to Make Colorized Photos
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Damian P. Gadal |
Photoshop ...
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Traci D. Brumley |
Make that 2 votes for Photoshop.
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Kip T. Berger |
Numerous photo programs are available that will allow you the ability to do this effect. As mentioned, Photoshop, but is $$. Paint shop Pro, Elements, Picture It, Photo-Paint, Photo Impact, etc. Depends on what you have currently and are used to using. If you own none of those programs currently, then the one to choose will be based upon "your" personal preference as to your comfortability and knowledge in using their tools and effects and work space; and the cost you wish to spend. Being comfortable with using the program you choose in your workflow will provide you more enjoyment and more use of the program. And that should allow you to be more creative and spend less time as you learn the tools, work space, effects, and shortcuts of your program.
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Dave Hockman |
Brianna, Three votes for Photoshop. Most expensive. I have used Elements (early on, outgrew it) and Picture It! Two versions. Picture It! had numerous glitches and would often shut down in the middle of a project. Ouch! Spent too much time downloading fixes and talking to techs. Reasonably priced though. Ultimately went to Photoshop. Have updated from early version 5.0 (I think,) now use 7.0. I recommend go to Borders or good bookstore and buy the "instructors manual," better than user manual, comes with Cd.(around 50.00) and spend the time going lesson to lesson through the book. You can learn alot by just using or playing with the program, but if your serious, it is worth some time investment to learn the program as intended. The lessons are hands on and you will learn alot. Took me about a month, doing a lesson almost every night, couple years ago. I do not remember everything of course, but I use the manual to reference when needed. Then play with it. You can take a course locally (college,community college, High school continuing education)however, I found the "instructors" manual to be far more comprehensive. Learning some proper sequencing will save you alot of grief and harddrive space. Make sure you have a processor that can do some work and you will find some of the effects you describe above are only a mouse click away. I was traditionally trained in photography 25 years ago and I find these programs to be intriguing. I will clearly state a biased towards Photoshop as it is powerful and works everytime. No glitches that I have seen. Kip may have more exposure, as I have only "seen" Paintshop-pro and Photo Impact being used. I am sure there are others that are as good. Well, there's my two cents. Good luck and learn well. Dave
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Dave Hockman |
Oh, by the way Brianna. There are a couple of ways to achieve this colorized effect. Most common? Most all of these photos start as a color photo. You desaturate, turn it into a black and white. Then go back and hit the history brush tool and simply click the brush on the area that you want colored and magically the color comes back. Go to any local Art Fair and there are a couple photogs selling photos like that. The "novelty" is about gone. Take Care. Dave
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Judy Kay Cowan |
Oooorrrr Brianna.......you could send your photos to me to "handpaint". I do everything by hand. There are still many "novelties" out there and I'm finding more and more but Dave could be right that it is fading out. I strictly do all painting by hand on my black and white photos. (working on my website now but had to respond to your question) Judy Kay Cowan (jk)
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Dave Hockman |
Ah... there are some true Artist/craftsmen out there. Good for you Judy! I hope the "novelty" of your work never fades. I bristol at the moments when I see someone tryng to pass off wonderful hand painted technique to a hapless customer/client and on inspection you can see it is a photoshop technique. Good Luck Judy, and keep the faith in the purity of that technique! May it serve you well! Dave
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- Dr Silly Contact Dr Silly Dr Silly's Gallery |
Hi there is a free download program called GIMP that you can use. I Have Paint Shop Pro 8 but could not figure out how to use it. Someone tolded me about GIMP and I found a place online that told me how to put color in black and white photos. If you go to my member gallery under William F Krause the photo with the clown dolls was done in GIMP. Have a good day and as us clowns say bump a nose and have some fun.
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Matt S. Raspanti |
4 votes for photoshop!!!! But I also use PSP. There are many ways to achieve this effect one way is to desaturate and then bring up the color in hue/saturation,like in your example the red of the rose. Another is to make layers in photoshop. You take your original picture, greyscale it and copy it into a new file one then you would go back into your history pallet and go before you greyscaled it. Select and drag it into your new file where you dragged the greyscaled image. Select and delete with the magic wand til all that is left is the rose. The second of the two is a much longer process but a little more accurate in the first. Have fun using this technique.
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Gregg Vieregge |
In photoshop be careful NOT to crop before you erase back the colors with the history brush. Crop afterwards. It doesn't work after a picture is cropped.
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Lewis Kemper |
All the photoshop folks have mentioned desaturating the image and then painting color back with History, while that works it is far from being the best method for ths procedure in Photoshop. It would work better to create a Channel Mixer adjustment layer and click on the monochrome bix, adjust the color sliders to get the best balck and white contrast ratio (something you can not do with Desaturate) and then just paint on the adjustment layer with black everywhere you want color to appear. If you use a low opacity brush you can paint in the color subtley nad build up it's intensity where you want. The good thing about this method is if you mess up you just switch the paint to white to erase the added color, you can go back and forth or come back another day and change what has color and what does not! (can't so that with History) If you want to learn more colorizing tips or black and white conversion tips take my class, Photographer's Toolbox for Photoshop -Toolbox #2
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