how can i add colour to a black and white photo on adobe photo shop?

Question

basically i want to take a picture in colour, change it to black and white on adobe photo shop then make certain bits colourful, say for instance a man in a hat, i would keep the photo in black and white and make the hat yellow, how do i do this in adobe photo shop?? cheers!!

Answer 1

Easy way:

- copy it into a new window and make it b&w by desaturation
- change the colour of the original image to one of the colours that your using by painting with the overlay
- copy and paste areas into your b&w window
- then back-step on the original image to begin with a new colour.

Easy!

Answer 2

just follow this steps.

Make your photo B&W.
Convert it again into RGB.
(You lost your colours, but you are able again to use them in the same file by taking it back to RGB, instead of copying and creating a new one).

Create a new layer. Paint "over" the hat (youre painting in a different layer, so dont bother being accurate in the brushing... just pain big strokes). Then, selec the Layer Style from the layer menu (if you look at the top left corner of your layers menu/window you have a drop down menu which says "normal")
Click there and change it to "Overlay".

As you can realize now, the bits that got colour are the white or graysh ones, the black ones still black, respecting contrast.

Of course colours in overlay mode arent the same colour as in normal mode, the have a washed out look, but after that, you can use "curves" (ctrl+m) or "hue saturation" (ctrl+u) or even "levels" (ctrl+l) to play with the colour and gamma.

Answer 3

Duplicate the colored layer;
Go to the top most copy, and hit CTRL+Shift+U to desaturate it;
Lock the coloured layer;
Using whatever selection tools you want (probably pen tool for accuracy) select the bits you want in colour, and erase from the desaturated layer so you're looking straight through to the coloured one.

Answer 4

You can use paint shop to do it by 'hand' use the paint brush that should be on the left along with a colour pallet

Answer 5

Use layers. set the black and white photo as the background, then crop off parts from the original image and paste them ontop

Answer 6

I wish i knew that!