Teach you to use PS for black and white photos simple coloring

1. Open a Black-and-white photo to be shaded.

2. Let's start with the simplest part and use the Polygon Lock tool to select the top half of the bottle.

3. Hold down the SHIFT key to make the polygon lock tool in an optional state to complete the selection of the lower part of the bottle.

In addition to the use of the multilateral locking tool in the selection of the bottle, we can also use the Pen tool for the selection, but the pen tool is slower than the multilateral locking tool in the selection speed. Of course the speed of the comparison has been taken into account the proficiency factor.

It is also a question as to how to make the selection more elaborate, there is no shortcut here, just put the picture to a large enough size plus enough detail. In general, do not increase the feather effect for the multilateral locking tool, the consequence of this is likely to outweigh the gains.

4. Select "Image" → "Adjust" → "color balance" command, in the menu appears to adjust the color of the bottle. Of course adjust to what color will be based on personal preferences, I use here is green.

5. After adjusting the color of the bottle, do not rush to cancel the selection, you must first click the "Store as channel" button in the channel panel before canceling the selection to save the selection for future modifications.

6. Use the same method to complete the selection of the paper. and continue with the palette.

7. Simple finished, continue to do the other part of the coloring, first is the clothes.

8. Continue to finish coloring the background section.

9. Continue to finish coloring the collar part.

10. At this time the file should already have 5 saved channels, in order to facilitate the operation later, we can name them separately, in order to facilitate the search later.

11. Continue the selection of hair.

12. Because of the hair and background, and the edge of the forehead does not produce a very clear demarcation, so we need to use the quick mask to select the selection of feathering. To make the color transition richer. If you do not feather the color adjustment directly, the feeling will be as blunt as the knife cut.

What is feather: feather is to blur the boundaries of a selection, but the contents are not blurred. The larger the range of feathering, the wider the scope of the feather, the smaller the range of feathering, the narrower the blur range.

13. Click the Quick Mask Edit button in the toolbox, and the selection in the Image window will be shown in light red, and a new channel named Quick Mask will appear in the channel panel.

14. Use fuzzy tools to selectively blur the edges of a selection, and of course the Smudge tool and brush tool can also be blurred.

15. Use the brush tool to draw the hair of the selection. Painting in a mask is only black and white, where Black is a selection, White is a selection, and if the brush color is gray, it becomes the feathering part of the selection. The degree of feathering depends on the lightness of Gray. Of course, you can also use other colors to paint, but the mask will only recognize the color brightness information.

16. Click the Standard Mode Edit button in the Toolbox to convert the quick mask to a selection.

17. Save the selection in the previous method and color the hair in the selection.

18. Use polygonal sleeve lock tool to select the big outline of face and neck.

19. Click the select → load selection command in the Drop-down menu, select the Subtract from Selection option from the menu that appears, and select hair from the Channel drop-down menu.

20. When the "OK" button is clicked, the part of the hair that intersects the face is removed.

21. Continue clicking the select → load selection command in the Drop-down menu, select subtract from selection from the menu that appears, and select collar from the Channel pull-down menu.

22. When you click the "OK" button, the part of the collar and neck is removed so that you can choose the face and neck.

23. Save the face and neck selection as a channel to facilitate future color adjustments.

24. Facebook and neck coloring.

Category:

• PS Image Processing