After Coloring a Black and White Image.

After Coloring a Black and White Image.

Photoshop offers one of the most robust graphics editing experiences available. In this tutorial  I am going to show how to color a black and white image in Photoshop.
Step1: Open your black and white image in Photoshop

Open black and white image.

Open black and white image.

Step2: Copy the image onto a new layer

Copy image onto new layer.

Copy image onto new layer.

Step3:Select the paint brush tool and set the mode to “color”. I set it at 80 percent opacity. You can use whatever opacity setting you like however.

Set the mode to "color".

Set the mode to "color".

Step4: Start coloring it in. Decide what items should have what colors.
Yellow for the gloves, blue for overalls etc etc.

Start coloring.

Start coloring.

Step5: While coloring, I choose a darker color for the areas with more shadows.
I used two colors in this step for the face.

Darker color for areas with more shadows.

Darker color for areas with more shadows.

Step6: Don’t worry about coloring out of the lines. You can use the
sponge brush to desaturate the areas you don’t want colored.

Use the sponge brush.

Use the sponge brush.

Step7: Just coloring more of the image.

Coloring more.

Coloring more.

Step8: When I’m done coloring, I select Image-Adjustments-brightness/contrast,
and up the contrast a little to make everything stand out more.

Select Image-Adjustments-brightness/contrast.

Select Image-Adjustments-brightness/contrast.

The finished image!

Final Image.

Final Image.

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