How to Colorize a Black and White Photo in Photoshop
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- This tutorial will teach you how to add color back into an old, black and white photograph. It's a lot of fun scanning and colorizing old family portraits, or bringing vintage photos into the modern world.
There are a few different techniques to colorize a black and white image, but the methods in this tutorial will be 100% non-destructive, meaning your original image stays intact, and you can go back and make adjustments without having to start from scratch.
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I need help Im trying to change the color but its not working. If I select green it shows dark red on the screen. How do I fix this?
Its Will B. It’s hard to say without seeing you do it. Check your blend mode and make sure you’re in RGB color mode in Photoshop.
New Layer Sorry I’ll try to be more detailed. After I do the refine edging step I select a solid color and I want that solid color to be green it chooses a whole different color like very light red.
great job!!
@@lucutes2936 Thanks, sorry for blowing your eardrums out with the intro, the newest videos don't do that :)
Thank you sir! This helped me turn a photo of my great grandfather into colour for my grandmother. It's the only photo she has of him. It was torn, ragged and in black and white. I removed all the flaws and this tutorial helped me finish it :D She's going to love it!
+Sean Ó Briain Do share the before and after :D
Show us in a social media platform!
only if there is some one to reply back!
I need a reply, did she love it?
Yes - she loved it :) Her memory is very poor these days so she doesn't remember who I am anymore. But she remembers that I made a photo for her.
Great video, but I do regret watching it at 12 at night. I've ended up staying up late just colorizing pictures.
same
thats what im doing right now lol
Number 42
It's 2am where I am right now and yep, same issue...
Number 42 ikr
I love that you just did a straight-forward video for more advanced users. I hate wading through 10 minutes of "and this is what a layer means, and this is your brush palette..." I know a lot of the users here are asking basic questions, but I appreciate that you just show how to do it without a bunch of extra talking about basic features. Great tutorial!
+Jenn Hoff I like this too. I'm not advanced, but he explained what needed to be explained like the shortcuts and junk. I can figure out what the layers, masks, and everything else is just by watching.
To properly learn this, you ought to write a step by step note by pausing the video at every step, then you do it all over according the note. You won't learn anything if just by watching.
I've actually found that these sorts of tutorials are actually the best for nearly every level of user. The ones that keep it super basic don't make you think as much about what's actually going on, and so you're not as likely to actually learn from it.
I learned from it just by watching but I don't have a clue what the command to soften the coulorized edges is so I was forced to do it manually
As a teacher you're very good. You go step by step and show the tools you're using, unlike others that just want to show what they know, but don't have a clue about teaching. Thanks for the coloring tutorial. I'm going to color a black and white picture of my mom taken about 40 years ago.
As a retired physics laboratory system instructor/director and enthusiast level cs6 going cc student of Adobe, I say Hear! Hear!. You have done an outstanding job of giving us, the unwashed Adobe-loving public, a step-by-step tutorial that we can actually follow. It excuses us from the lofty demands of professionalism and allows us to learn with simple and trusted tools. However, I do agree with one commenter who asked you go slow down just a little for those of who learn slowly and even need to write down the steps ad you reveal them. With wholehearted gratitude: THANKS!
This is outstanding. Thanks for the quick and dirty version without inundating with a lot of verbose commentary. Short and sweet does it.
Watching this in the background and at about 4:00 I heard "next we need to remove his eyes"
Really
haha
this guy makes photoshop look easy. i wish i could do what he can
that's why constant practice is important, to sharpens skills.. even this guy as great as he is now was in our position when he was starting. Your dedication on the medium dictates the rate of how you'll master it. Good luck and have a great day!
Thanks a lot. I just colorized a portrait of my grandpa after he graduated college in Spain. I can't wait to show it to him tomorrow, I think he will be so happy.
This is, by far, the best coloring video I can find anywhere.
Dude. Awesome tutorial. Perfect instructions. Perfect speed. I nailed colourisation in a different pic just by working step-by-step with you.
Thanks heaps.
Not sure if you're still interested, but for anyone else that has the same problem:
If you go to Image > Mode > ............, you need to select something other than grayscale.
Thank you! You demonstrated exactly what I was looking for without my having to skim through tons of content. I was stuck on this one specific problem and you solved it in no time at all. Thanks again!
The tutorial that got me started! Coloring photos is so much fun and therefore I thank you for starting me on my journey!
Excellent! You have the perfect cadence and your attention to speeding up the little stuff (but labor intensive) is really good. Thank you.
To get closer to how the original looked in color, you need as much information as possible, so you can get as possible in accuracy. Like finding out if he really had blue eyes, shades of hair color (since it fairly dark one can assume he was not blond and lastly how that uniform of the time period looked.
Thank you! I am barely learning how to use the tools in Photoshop, and it's a little overwhelming knowing theres different tools for EVERYTHING, so finding the right ones for what I want to create is very tricky. You made it simple and well done!
brilliant tutorial! Thank you so much. because of this video, I was able to give my mum a colour photo of her and all her siblings when they were children! Thank you!
Wow, very quite and helpful tutorial, this proves that you dont need a very long video just to show some tutorials, very precise and informative, Thank you very much 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nice. Very simple, but you gotta know the steps. Thanks.
This is very cool. Thank you for making this, as i am about the digitize a huge quantity of family archival pictures, many B&W, that will need this.
Consider it 'Liked' and me, 'Subscribed'!
Straight form the pros. thanks a lot John for this amazing tutorial!
really appreciate the video man, it's people like you that have essentially taught me all i know about photoshop.
Obviously still got a lot to learn, until now i was just using an almost transparent layer with the colour i wanted but it obviously never looked quite right.
Thank you so much. I am a photography degree student and i must admit i was struggling with this (How to make my colourised photographs look realistic). Your tutorials are so simple and easy to follow. Thank you once again.
Wow, that is exactly what I was looking for. So helpful.
Outstanding! Thank you so much for the instructors and tips! 👍🏻👍🏻
Best tutorial ever thank you for making it simple and wonderful to learn!!!!
John, thank you very much! You make the difficult so much easier than I imagined.
This is more than amazing and I just LOVE IT!!!
Needed the perfect video to help with my photoshop course assignment and this helped me tremendously! Thank you for posting these videos
This is perfect, I would never have done it with solid colour layers but this is fantastic
Thank you so much mister! This is the only video that truly made me comprehend how the work's done. Again, thank you :))
Aww yes now I can have pictures of myself in color
You're a wiz. Thanks for the useful video, Photoshop master.
Hey man! Thanks for the tutorial! I tries three other ways of doing this beforehand and this is my favorite!
Thank you for this clear, concise tutorial. You helped me.
I thought it was a great tutorial for the beginner. Thanks for taking the time to post it. Much appreciated.
Your pace in the tutorials is perfect for me
Thanks for posting this tutorial. Very well done and easy to follow.
Had a hard time to understand this technique but now I do, thanks so much for good and and clear instructions!
Thank you for showing this. I have several images I will be experimenting with. Oh, and I subscribed to see more tips and tricks in Photoshop!
Brilliant - I'll give it a go, you made it look so easy!
Straight forward, concise and useful video. Thank you very much.
Fabulous tutorial...i've been wanting to do this for a long time...this video had me up and running really quickly..and i've just completed my first one..and if I say so myself, it's rather good. Thank you
Just discovered your channel! You make it so easy, even though you are pretty fast haha. I have been playing around with photoshop for months and have learned more in one day with your channel than in all of that time. Thank you!
Thank you! I'm happy to hear that. If it's ever too slow or fast, you can change the playback speed directly on CZcams or the CZcams app to make it easier to follow along.
Superb!!!! I never expected this kind of tutorial. First when i saw the thumbnail of this video, i thought you are going to change color image to black and white. But it is marvellous.
superb. concise and helpful. thanks a lot!
Amazing! Thank you, I subscribed :)
I have seen 3-4 videos on B/W to color, but your approach is awesome!
This is great, thanks for posting. I've been trying to do it by hand, very fiddly.
Rated and subbed.
Thank you for that.. just what I was looking for. GREAT tutorial
the best tutorial i have ever found in youtube simple and effective..thank you for posting your idia.....
Thanks for this lesson! It helped me color my grandpa's old photo when he was an marketer.
in two words - Thank you! it's been a great tutorial videos unlike the others.
Wonderful tutorial, easy to follow even for people with no much experience like me. The photo ended being marvelous, I even colored the medals.
Thank you for taking the time to do this.
Fantastic! The instructions couldn't be more clear. Thanks.
Best tut I've seen on colorizing. Thanks
Quick and clear. I like it
Hi there - this was a very helpful video as I have just started colonizing old family photos - Cheers!
Really great tutorial! You explain to the point and nicely!
I am learning a lot from your tutorials!
Thanks :)
Amazing! The refine edge technique!
awesome you the man ! I had the same problem below as Maddex
glad he asked first! but works fine now !
Thank you very much, John. Your tutorial really helped me.
Amazing tutorial I have learned a lot about colorizing black pictures
I like the tutorial very much! You explained everything very well;)
Thank you for this tutorial
Thanks so much. Very helpful and easy to follow
thank you for the tutorial. i colorized and cleaned a photo of my dad when he was 16. now it looks like the photo was taken yesterday
wow that's super . well done and thank you for tutorial
awesome tut! thanx!
Great tutorial John. Thank you!
I learned a lot from this video. Thank you so much.
This is great! Very clear tutorial :)
Very nicely described. Thanks
One of the best tutorials; and to the point
Awesome Thanks for this Tutorial!
Great tutorial!
Simple and easy for beginners!
Thanks for posting. This is a very good method and very good work on your part.
Thank you as you helped me to put a smile on a friend's face.
the tone and control of ur voice says "I know my sNice tutorialt!". Good stuff buddy.
awesome really like the way u describe every detail I will try with my b/w pic ....thanx
Thanks!!! awesome tutorial!!! I used it and it turned out amazing! :)
Thank you so much for the video. Now i able to color my favorites historic photos.
Awesome video, definitely earned a subscribe from me. Very informational, learned a new technique. Thank you
Glad it helped CodyAZ1991! Make sure you subscribe at czcams.com/users/DesignPanoply, that's where all the current and new videos will be posted.
Alright will do :D
CodyAZ1991 Thanks... I want to make a surprise to my mother with a picture she did with her deceased father when she was a teenager... great!
Great video quick and informative I think after a few more visits here I will be able to get some decent results , Thank You !
great video ! actually helped me ! colorised my first photoshop image edit
omg i have been trying to learn how to do this for a long time .. I don't know if it is your technique that i understand better or that you are better at teaching but thank you for this video!!
Great John, that was easy
Brilliant tutorial, thankyou.
A lot easier using just the color brush and eraser tool with layers for each object.. Also when all the coloring is finished,Slide over the match color bar to make the colors pop out. And use the dodge tool brush (fuzzy brush) on midtone and highlight modes for realistic lighting.
The simplicity itself! Great :)))
Thanks just what I needed
Wow! Pretty cool.
This is amazing, thanks.
Thanks heaps for this video!
Well done. Thank you.
Thank you so much, this was so helpful!
Great tutorial thanks for posting!