04-08-2023, 07:40 AM
Welcome to the weekend, everyone. May it be a good one for us all.
I decided to try something new (and overly-ambitious}: hand-coloring a B&W image.
I started with a rather mediocre photo of a fence lizard and did some minor adjustments in Camera Raw...
Next I took it into PSE where I converted it to grayscale. One or two adjustment layers tweaking brightness & contrast. Then converted back to color mode (but it stayed looking B&W because I had earlier eliminated all color). Then 9 layers of Photo Filter, choosing different areas of the lizard, using 2 different colors, and in different intensities. Another adjustment layer or two to darken the background. Then resized for posting; another layer to sharpen the lizard; and one or two final layers to fine-tune the color intensity. I think I ended up with 18 layers total before I saved it for Web posting.
It was fun, and I learned a lot. The main thing I learned is that 18 layers isn't nearly enough to produce a sophisticated image that applies many colors
I decided to try something new (and overly-ambitious}: hand-coloring a B&W image.
I started with a rather mediocre photo of a fence lizard and did some minor adjustments in Camera Raw...
Next I took it into PSE where I converted it to grayscale. One or two adjustment layers tweaking brightness & contrast. Then converted back to color mode (but it stayed looking B&W because I had earlier eliminated all color). Then 9 layers of Photo Filter, choosing different areas of the lizard, using 2 different colors, and in different intensities. Another adjustment layer or two to darken the background. Then resized for posting; another layer to sharpen the lizard; and one or two final layers to fine-tune the color intensity. I think I ended up with 18 layers total before I saved it for Web posting.
It was fun, and I learned a lot. The main thing I learned is that 18 layers isn't nearly enough to produce a sophisticated image that applies many colors
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
Nikon D7500 with Nikkor 18-300 mm; PSE2021, PSCS5
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