Does anyone know of a photo software that can add color to black and white photos?
February 12th, 2010
I’ve seen photographers that can take a photo, make it black and white, and then take an item and make that part colored while the rest of the photo stays black and white. (example: black and white photo of a person with only their eyes colored.) I have some photos that I have taken with my digital camera that I think would look really great if I could do this. Does anyone know of what kindof software I could get to do this with my photos. I have Adobe photoshop and I thought that I might be able to do it with that, but I can’t find a way on there to do it. Any help/advice that anyone could give me would be most appreciated!! Thanks in advance!
February 12th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop will do it for you.
February 12th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Photoshop
all most all the Photo studio they are using Photoshop for photo editing.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
There are a couple of ways to do it.
One is to use the lasso tool to select the area you want to stay colored,
then Invert the selection,
then click Image|Adjustments|Desaturate (I am trying to write this from memory. The effect can be really awesome.
To add color that is not part of the image, Desaturate the whole image, select the Brush tool and set the Mode to Color. Select a color, then paint over the area you want to color.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
just get a good photo program like photoshop or corel and you will be more than happy
February 13th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Well what I do is use Microsoft Image Pro, crop just the eyes(or whatever you want), make the color nicer or keep it the same, then click the whole image, and make it black and white. it works. it’s like..the image is really black and white, but the eyes that are colored are over top the black and white eyes, so the overall image is color eyes/b&w rest.
February 13th, 2010 at 12:15 am
With Photoshop (generic instructions)
1. Open Image
2. Duplicate Background Layer
3. Select Layer 1
4. Desaturate Layer 1
5. Adjust Levels on Layer 1 (CTRL + L) for a nice B&W color
6. Select soft brush for eraser tool
7. Carefully erase the parts of Layer 1 that you want the background layer to show through.
To Add color selection to a B&W image
1. Open Image
2. Create New Layer
3. Set Layer Style to Color
4. Select a soft brush on Paintbrush Tool
5. Choose color you would like
6. Carefully paint over the area you would like.
**Also try setting the layer style to Hue / Saturation for another effect**
Once you are done with either process, flatten the image then choose save as so you dont’ over write original file
February 13th, 2010 at 1:11 am
I recommand you to use picasa to organize and edit your pictures.
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures ¨C you can email, print photos at home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello™, and even post pictures on your own blog.
http://www.youtubetool.net/google-picasa/
good luck , best wishes!
February 13th, 2010 at 1:31 am
Welll if you are looking for software that specializes in add color to photogrpahs then it would have to be Blackmagic
http://www.black-and-white-to-color.com
apparently this is the s/w ( or a version) that is used to colorize old black and white movies, but i have only used it for stills