To restore the beautiful boxing

Arvin PostScript: About black and white photo coloring problem, has always been to explore the focus of Photoshop. I believe this example can bring you a most simple way to improve work efficiency.

Let's go

Above is the original image, photoshop7 the old photo with it.

After processing image (processing this image, only five minutes)

Ladies and gentlemen, the comparison of the two images above can help you understand the powerful features of Photoshop. Although the function is powerful, it is very simple to do.

Step one, first convert the pattern of the image to Lab mode (Image/mode/lab color), you really want to ask why, I can tell you, in Lab mode, lightness, a, b three channels, visible, it puts the lightness information in the lightness channel , this is exactly what I want to use.

Because, you observe the person's face, there is a dark, you can not fill up a color, even if you are a variety of color fill up, but also to consider the light and shade transition AH. Some people used to color balance (ctrl+b), hue/saturation (ctrl+u) and so on to color, but the result, just "people" stained, with artistic effect and less real effect.

Next, tick the skin section and copy it into the Layer1, as shown in the picture.

Step two, select the Select/color Range menu command, and in the dialog box that pops up, select Set to Highlights (high light) and click OK to get a high light selection.

The intersection of the high light selection and the skin is shown in the following illustration. The way to get the intersection is to press the Ctrl+shift+alt key while clicking the Layer1 in the Layers panel.

Step three, consider what color to fill in. I really do not bother to think, so casually found a beautiful portrait on the Internet, and then output into a 16-color gif, although ugly, I got the desired color.

Because it's a high-light selection now, so of course it's bright, so set the foreground color to "draw from a beautiful figure" and then select the Brush tool, about 100 strokes, and remember, set the mode to color on the Brush property bar (This step is not less).

Next, draw a pass (coloring) in a civil strife. The results are shown in the following illustration:

Step four, select the Select/color Range menu command, and in the dialog box that pops up, select is set to Midtones (middle lightness), and the middle brightness selection is available when you press OK. The intersection with the skin is shown in the following illustration.

With just the brush, set the foreground color "from the beauty drawing of the middle color", the results of the painting as shown in the following figure.

Step Five, select the Select/color Range menu command, and in the pop-up dialog box, select Set to Shadows (dark), and then click OK to get the dark selection. The intersection with the skin is shown in the following illustration.

With just the brush, set the foreground color "from the beauty drawing of the dark color", the results of the painting as shown in the following figure.

Step six, back to the background layer, 勾描 out the hair section, copy it to Layer2, then press Ctrl+u, and in the Open dialog box, check the colorize (coloring) to brown. and combine Layer2 and Layer1, that is, the skin and hair are the same layer.

Step seven, in the channel panel, observe a channel, found it as shown in the following figure, in fact, it is only the color information, b channel similar, the difference is a for red to green, B blue to yellow. In order to make the color transition more natural, so you can use the A, B channel Gaussian blur, the fuzzy radius of about 20pixels.

Next, set the layer mode for the Layer1 (the new layer that you just merged Layer2 and Layer1) to: overlay, as shown in the following figure, when the basic kung fu has been done.

But now the coloring results are not true, such as eyes and mouth eyebrows and other colors are wrong. So ctrl+e merge layers, ready for meticulous processing.

Step eight, the next color, the basic operation is similar: first sketch the selection, then feather the selection 1 to 2 pixels, and then press Ctrl+u, to color.

So, no more say, please try. This is the end of the tutorial. The following figure is my simple adjustment result: I add thick eyebrows, white whites, pupil black, lips painted red.

Summary

It's just a way of coloring, and I've simplified it as much as I can. If you also have a better way, please contact me for sharing.