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Color to Black/White

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Learn how to transform your black-white photo's to true colorful photos!

Step 1

Open up any black-white photo;

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Step 2

The thing is, you need to use whatever selection-tool you can find and select one thing at a time. Let's say the skin. Okay.. now that we have the skin selected, we can start applying stuff like colour! Press Ctrl+U to open the Hue/Saturation-pannel.

Then what you do is just move the slider and make sure you have colorize selected;

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Step 3

Then continue on doing all the parts that need to be coloured;

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Step 4

You can also copy a layer after colorizing it and set the blending mode to something different;

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Step 5

When you're done, look at the difference...

Color to Black/White