hi viewers ! welcome to photoshop telugu training series. this is suniel from tutofactory.com in this video i'm showing how to change black and white photos color first import black & white photo to photoshop for importing photos click on workspace (empty space) select photo location then select photo here i'm using already retouched image. if you want to color damaged photos make sure you already completed photo restoration so first select eliptical marquee tool and draw cirlce in face or any another body part (skin) then goto layer > new adjustment layer > color balance
set the name as body or skin first we will apply basic colours basically indian body skin color is in yellow or blue if you want add bright colors add yellow or if you want dark color add blue here i'm using red color for looking natural press ok after you get the basic skin tone so we just adding basic colors and then we will apply advanced color settings select brush tool ( short cut b) and set foreground color as white. select smooth brush (feather brush) apply the color to complete skin
select feather brush tool for nice result if the color is goes outside the skin press x button ( for rotate color) change the brush size in corners ( [ for decrease size and ] = for increase size so here i filled the color to complete skin so here we will apply color to saree (dress) so once again select the marquee tool and draw a cirlce on saree ( dress) then goto layer> new adjustment layer > color balance > set tha name as saree here i'm applying red color for saree then select the brush tool and apply the color to complete saree (dress)
apply the colors carefully. don't apply colors to jewels so here i finished appling the color to saree ok next when is jewel once again select marquee tool and draw a cirlce on jewel here i'm using hue/saturation for gold color after the draw the circle goto layer . new adjustment layer > hue / saturation and set the name as gold or jewel always set the name to colors so we can identify layers easily there is no particular values for gold. it's depend on lighting and image color
just play with values for get some good color tick the colorzie option once you get light yellow color apply the color to complete jewels if any stones in jewel apply color to stones also so many people ask me that is there any particular values for skin and gold but there is no particular vlaues beacuse the values are based on image quality and lighting and shadows here body color is also applied for rings so first i'm removing the body color so you can also find more tutorials about photoshop in our channel and also in our website www.tutofactory.com you can also download free dvds from our website ( telugu version)
if you need any help about photoshop you can contact us through our website forums not only tutorials you can also download free materials and templates until now we applied the basic colors. from now we will apply advanced colors first select body layer first double click on body layer..it's looking good if the skin tone is yellowish and reddish so here i'm increasing yellow and red colors now selet the shadows.. shadows gives most realstic looks for skin tone if you see the image.. the all this part is covered with shadows all dark shades comes under shadows and light shades are under helights
so here i'm decreasing the red color for shadows. k now helights i'm increasing reddish here and blue also so if you see here . we are almost get the skin tone color here i'm checking body layers colors are applied coreectly or not you can see the difference when we applied skin tone at first time there is no difference between shadows and helights this realstic skin tone cames from shadows and helights so when you are applying colors to black and white images make sure you must applies color to the shadows and helights for great results
and also use red and yello color for skin tones if yousee here actual saree contains a pattern so i want to fill pattern to antoher color so here i'm creating new adjustment layer for pattern so here i'm appling yellow color for paatern. because yellow looks good in red so here pattern color is dominating the saree. an also saree depth is missing so here i'm changing the values for saree pattern shadow and helights if you see the saree it's cover with almost shadows (darkness)on every where so if you increase red it will bright and dominate the depth of saree and also if you decrease red it will dark and it's appear like pach on prints so here i'm decreasing red little bit
so here i'm selecting gold layer hold the control button and click on the jewel layer mask now layer > new adjustment layer > color balance so here sai before there is no particular values for gold it's depend on lighing of the image so here i'm just adjusting the colors ( mask ) so if you see here my saree color is overcame to jewels so i'm deleting the extra color if you look at eyes body skin tone color also applied on eyes & eye brows so here i'm removing the body color.. select the brush tool and change opacity arround 30-45%
make sure forground color is in black. then erase the body layer select dodge tool and set exposure around 20% eyes apply to both body and background layers then select burn tool and set exposure around 20 % apply to eye brows and eye balls if yu see eye brows are too dark so i'm just adding body skin tone little bit it's batter now ok. next one is lips select the pen tool and create path for lips ( draw the path around lips)
press ctrl+enter for active the selection press ctrl+alt+d for feather in photoshop 7 to cs4, or press shift + f6 for other versions layer > new adjustment layer > hue/ saturation set the name as lips then select which colors are you want then select the brush tool and set forground color as black and remove the edges for smoth make sure brush opacity must be in 100% next we will apply colors for gold stones select marquee tool and draw circle on stones layer > new adjustment layer > color balance set the name as stones
once again select marquee tool and draw the circle on stones layer > new adjustment layer>color balance set names as stones 2 here i'm applying blue color but you can choose which colors are you want next i'm applying colors to mehandi here in dark area i'm just decreasing the brush opacity here i'm adding colors to cheek select marquee tool and draw circle select the mango red or lite orange or pink colors decrease the opacity for natural look
k next one is background color