Hand Coloring Photos- How-To (click here)
#1 You must have a photo- scanned, scanned negative, digital or from the internet
Save to your file. Click here for a page of tutorial photos.
#2 Open photo in Adobe Photoshop. Go to Image column, open Mode, go to Greyscale- it will ask you "discard color information?"
 Click ok. Your photo is now B & W.
To add color, Go to Image column, open Mode,
go to RGB color- you can now add color.
#3  Adding "Transparent Colors"
Double click on your paintbrush or airbrush icon  and check the "opacity " setting box. It should be set to a 20% or lower.
Now add color in areas. Check out example below.

How-To (click here)

Using you paintbrush icon add color to
the photo, if you double click on the paintbrush
icon and change from normal to overlay-plus
decrease your opacity to less than 20% you can get more realistic colors.
Try to get soft pastel-like colors, be nice to these children!

Save to file and print, you will be 
doing this with  your best 
negative scanned pics-from the 
latest roll of film.
Be creative!

#4 Adding "Opaque Colors"
Double click on your paintbrush or airbrush icon  and check the "opacity " setting box.
 It should be set to a 100%
Now add color in areas.
 

Sephia Toning or Color Toning- How-To (click here)
#1 You must have a photo- scanned, scanned negative, digital or from the internet
Save to your file. Click here for a page of tutorial photos.
#2 Open photo in Adobe Photoshop. Go to Image column, open Mode, go to Greyscale- it will ask you "discard color information?"
 Click ok. Your photo is now B & W.
To add color, Go to Image column, open Mode,
go to RGB color- you can now add color.
#3 Adding Sephia Tone (or an overall color) to all, and erasing parts-
Go to Layer column, go to new- layer.
From your color picker box, in toolbar, choose a good sephia color (brown). Got to Edit column and click on "Fill"- click on ok. Your page now is filled with the brown. With your layer toolbar open, change "normal" to "color" (you can also experiment with other commands) and change "opacity to a lower number.
With this new layer still selected , choose your eraser and erase parts of your image, leaving some areas toned- some b& w.
#4 Adding Sephia Tone to selected areas only-
with photo open use one of your selector tools to surround areas of your photo you would like to sephia tone, leave your photo selected!
Go to Layer column, go to new- layer.
From your color picker box, in toolbar, choose a good sephia color (brown). Got to Edit column and click on "Fill"- click on ok. Your page now is filled with the brown. With your layer toolbar open, change "normal" to "color" (you can also experiment with other commands) and change "opacity to a lower number.

 

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