Photoshop beautiful black and white photo coloring tips

Tips Today I give 8 will color of friends to explain: PS in the black and white photo coloring skills, I take Photoshop CS as an example, for everyone to explain a section:

Original material:

Late-color effects:

Here we will first save the black and white photos of the material picture to the computer. Then start Photoshop CS and open the picture file.

First step: Create layers and masks

1. In the layers panel, use the left mouse button to drag and drop layer 1 to the "Create New Layer" buttons below the level Panel, creating a copy of Layer 1.

2. Double-click on the name of the layer copy to rename the copied layer copy to "base mask".

3, click "Add Layer Mask" below the layers panel to create a mask for the base mask layer, as shown in the figure. If the original foreground and background colors are colored, you will find that it becomes black and white. We set the foreground color to white and the background color to black, pressing the "Ctrl+del" key to fill the mask with black. In the final effect, only the white part of the mask can be displayed, and the black part is obscured by the mask. The mask is characterized by not destroying the pixels in the original image, but also modifying the mask as needed to achieve the most perfect effect.

Step Two: Color the skin

1, drag the base mask onto the Create new Layer button, create a copy, and rename it to "skin." Make sure the foreground color is white, select the Brush tool in the toolbox, set the appropriate brush size in the options bar, and then paint the girl's skin on the picture, and watch the mask change until you get the results as shown in the example illustration. Painting does not have to match exactly, because even if there are deviations, can still be adjusted according to the actual situation, which is the advantages of using a mask. When you use the Brush tool, you can resize the brush by pressing the [or] key. (Note: If you find traces of graffiti on a picture when you draw it, it means that you are now drawing a layer instead of a mask, and you need to click the mask on the right side of the layer.) ）

2. After the skin of a good figure, we select the layer and press the combination key (Ctrl+u) to open the "hue/saturation" surface version, adjust the color of the characters according to their needs.

3, after adjusting the character skin color, we will find that many parts are not very ideal. ok! It's okay, let's make some adjustments to the details below. Using the Zoom tool, enlarge the part of the skin, look at the interface between the skin and other parts, if the skin there is no coloring, then paint with a brush, if the color beyond the skin range, you need to set the foreground color black, and then in these places, until their satisfaction.

Step three: Color the LIP

1, drag the base mask onto the Create new Layer button, create a copy, and rename it to "lip."

Then use the Pen tool or lasso tool to sketch the contour of the lip, fill it with white in the selection with the Paint bucket tool, click the layer, and press the key combination (Ctrl+u) to turn on hue/saturation to adjust the lip color. (Don't forget to click Coloring, and do not do color too much, nature is the most beautiful, if you want to be a zombie, then when I did not say!) hoho!) Sweat!

Step Fourth: Color the hair

1, if you want to do with color hair, as the lip of the method is OK, the details of the section can be based on the above I teach you some of the mask characteristics to make changes, remember the appropriate adjustment brush opacity, will make the color to achieve unexpected results.

2, the final purpose is to make the picture more beautiful and moving, therefore, we do not blindly color, we must observe the color of the picture, so as to make the most perfect color pictures. As I did this picture, batting practice felt that black hair was the perfect choice, and that it seemed a bit topic, hoho!

3. Copy a background layer and rename it to "hair."

Choose to deepen the tool, brush hardness not large, the same as the luminosity, the selection of darkened, brush size according to the specific position to adjust, must add evenly, the original luster of the hair do not touch, the finer parts of the best to enlarge in doing, but also appropriate to adjust the properties of the brush.

4.OK, hair also done, a super beauty is about to be born, 8, the picture how to look lifeless ah?

Hoho! Don't worry, that is because we have not yet made the light effect, we open: image/Adjustment/(brightness/contrast) surface version, of course, with the color level can also! Adjust according to the change of image until you are satisfied. (Note: To simulate the scene of the shooting lights.) Jewelry, and the part of the hand must be bright, otherwise it will appear very uncoordinated.

Step Fifth: Modify the color of the eye

I almost forgot to change my eyes, sweat! Modifying the eyes is very simple, we can use a white brush in the skin layer in the eye because it is white to change the place to white. That's right! It's best to make some blush, so that's OK.

Sixth step: General detail beautification modification

In fact this step, I think is a finishing touch of the role, when finished a picture, there are a lot of subtle places are very easy to be overlooked, but if you change the local changes in the ointment, and not modified by comparison, it will make you obviously feel the last picture of the deficiencies! This step I do not say much, who call it is: sensed, inexpressible Lord! Hoho!

This tutorial hopes to be able to be helpful to the friends who have not yet got into the black and white coloring, everybody refuels together!