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Colorizing a Black & White Image

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Start by opening a black & white image.

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Take tan as a foreground color. Using pen tool draw a path covering face area.

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Similarly create a path covering his arms.

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Change the layer mode to color of all the path layers.

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Take a different shade of brown as a foreground color. Create path covering the guitar.

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Change the layer mode to color. Move this layer below the arms path layers in layer order in layer palette.

Colorizing a Black & White Image