 - Jyan L. Crayton Contact Jyan L. Crayton Jyan L. Crayton's Gallery |
colorizing a black & white image. Please Respond. I've seen a few images on this site where the picture is black & white and something in the image was color. example: a bow, shirt, shoes, etc. How do you get an image like this. I shoot film, but get photos put on a CD to digitize them and would love to try and do this to one of my images. I currently have paint shop pr x & corel photo album 6. Do I need another software to to this. Thanks
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Try a search on "color in black and white". It's a popular question, you'll get several responses.
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Mike Carpenter |
Open the image you want to use then make a layer via copy then de-saturate to black and white then use the eraser tool to just erase the black and white
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Brendan Knell |
What you're talking about is called selective coloring. If you want more detailed instructions, you can search, as Greg said, for "color in black and white" or you could also try "selective coloring."
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Missy P |
Were you able to do this? I tried but unable to get it to work. When I click on de-saturate. It is giving me a error msg that nothing is selected.
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Mike Carpenter |
By desaturate I mean go under image>adjust color> hue/saturation then pull the middle slider all the way to the left. Then you select the eraser tool and just erase on the image where you want the color to come back.
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Bob |
There are some freeware progs out there that can do it. I have one somewhere on my computer, but I can't find it! In the meantime, here is one: http://www.photo-freeware.net/recolored.php Actually, now that I think of it, this may be the one on my computer!
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Bob |
I should update my last answer. I looked into it some more and that is the program I was using. I got it off a developers forum where the author was beta-testing it. I now see that it is for sale on his web site http://www.recolored.com so I can't be sure that it's freeware anymore. In any event, it workds really well and is very easy to do, but I don't want to get in trouble for giving a link to something that perhaps should not be free anymore.
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Jim M. White |
Jyan, A great way to do this is to first desaturate the image. Then choose the History brush (keyboard shortcut "y"). Go back in your History palette to the step prior to desaturation. Choose a reduced opacity level, say 30% to give a hand-tinted look, and paint back the areas of the image you want in color. Works great. Email me if you have trouble.
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Sylvia Rossler |
If you don't have a History brush on your programm you can also select (magic wand or lasso tool)the part you want to stay colored, then inverse the selection(with a right mouse click)and desaturate your image :O)
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- Jyan L. Crayton Contact Jyan L. Crayton Jyan L. Crayton's Gallery |
after I desaturate the image, erase the area I want to stay color, how do I get the final image look of black&white with the clored areas.
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Mike Carpenter |
Flatten the image then "save as"
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Missy P |
Thanks so much for your help. Missy
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Craig m. Zacarelli |
lol... another happy ending! -zacker-
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