Colorization of B & W Photo?

[SonicMax]

People,

(Running v6.0) I have an old B & W photo that a family member wants colorized.

Is this accomplished manually (meaning...vs. a plug-in)?

Any good tutorials around?

Thanks very much,

SonicMax

 

[barehug]

By colourize, do you mean that you want to reproduce skin tones etc?
Well, there are plugins for colourizing B+W photos like
Black magic...

http://www.black-and-white-to-color.com/

(actually that's the only one I know of!)

Or you can do it in Photoshop, using the built in Filters and brushes. her's a site dedicated to this...

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~larrykin/pshop/col_b_w.html

Do a search on google for more.

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.

 

[SonicMax]

barehug,

Thanks much.

Like the Larry Larionoff site.

Downloaded the BlackMagic trail app, but wasn't too impressed with it.

Will probably try it on my own (using larry's tutorial to get me started.)

Thanks again,

SonicMax

 

[dimoj]

Sonic

I haven't read Larry's tutorial so it might just tell you exactly what I'm about to say:

But the easiest way to do it 'manually' is just to create a new layer above your photo (make sure you are in RGB or CMYK mode) and then change the new layers Blending Mode to 'Colour' and then simply 'paint' your colours on the new layer.

 

[aikodude]

here's the 2 that got me going on the right path to colorizing b&w's:

http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop24.shtml

and:

http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=30&category=Photoshop

 

[mscallisto]

sometimes a little deception helps quite a bit.
I recently worked on a 1943 yellowed b/w pic of 4 women on a beach.
By replacing the sand, sea and sky with recent pics it looked very much colorized.

 

[SonicMax]

Everyone...

Thanks much...good tips & links all.

SonicMax