Mar '05
AshleyDobson
Thought I would share a tutorial. Not sure if there is one here or not...but this is wonderful to use to highlight something special. Commonly used on eyes, and flowers.
Colorize:
Colorize is a artistic effect used by a lot of graphic designers to detail pictures.
1. Start off by opening an image which you want to colorize, it can be black and white or color, because we're going to convert it anyway.
After its loaded, go to Image>Mode>Grayscale. If it asks you to flatten the image, select "Don't Flatten".
Then go to Image>Mode>RGB Color. Again, if it asks you to flatten the image, select "Don't Flatten."
2. Here comes the hard part, select the part of the picture which you want to colorize to highlight. Once you've made your decision, use the Polygon Selection Lasso
and start slowly going around the part of picture you want to highlight. You can zoom in if it makes it easier to highlight. Once you've looped around and completed the selection, it should look something like what he have below.
3. Whew, that was antagonizing; while the image is still selected, select the color which you want to make the selection. Since I have a pretty sunflower, I'm going to go with yellow. Then, make a new layer by going to the layers tab, select new. then go to Edit>Fill and select Foreground color, Normal, 100%.
4. The last step to do is to go to the Layers Palette, (the files in the bottom right corner) and on the top left, you'll see a drop down, the "Blending Mode," which should say "Normal". Click the drop down and select "Color". If the color is too bright or just the wrong shade, play around with the opacity settings, or try filling with another color. And there you have it, one really pretty sunflower that sticks out of the rest! =)
Colorize:
Colorize is a artistic effect used by a lot of graphic designers to detail pictures.
1. Start off by opening an image which you want to colorize, it can be black and white or color, because we're going to convert it anyway.
After its loaded, go to Image>Mode>Grayscale. If it asks you to flatten the image, select "Don't Flatten".
Then go to Image>Mode>RGB Color. Again, if it asks you to flatten the image, select "Don't Flatten."
2. Here comes the hard part, select the part of the picture which you want to colorize to highlight. Once you've made your decision, use the Polygon Selection Lasso
and start slowly going around the part of picture you want to highlight. You can zoom in if it makes it easier to highlight. Once you've looped around and completed the selection, it should look something like what he have below. 3. Whew, that was antagonizing; while the image is still selected, select the color which you want to make the selection. Since I have a pretty sunflower, I'm going to go with yellow. Then, make a new layer by going to the layers tab, select new. then go to Edit>Fill and select Foreground color, Normal, 100%.
4. The last step to do is to go to the Layers Palette, (the files in the bottom right corner) and on the top left, you'll see a drop down, the "Blending Mode," which should say "Normal". Click the drop down and select "Color". If the color is too bright or just the wrong shade, play around with the opacity settings, or try filling with another color. And there you have it, one really pretty sunflower that sticks out of the rest! =)
