Turn Your Black n White Photos to A Colourful One!

This is my second tutorial, I hope you like it. Sorry, for my not-so-good english! I actually know this from photography extracurricular in my school. I practice it again in my home and made this tutorial.

I love colour, didn’t you love it too? Black and white photos sure are great photos. But if you already take a photo in black and white, and you want to turn that to a colourful one,  So here is turn your black n white photos to a colourful one tutorial. Do follow these simple steps! (PS : I use photoshop 7.0 in this tutorial)

1. First, open your black and white photos in photoshop.

2. Double click on the background layer and the dialog box will appear. In the dialog box click OK. This is to unlock the lock sign on the background. When you’re done, the layer will change name into layer 0.

3. Make sure the photos mode is RGB. You can check it out in the ‘image’ menu -> mode -> click RGB Color.

4. Click new layer so the new layer add up in the picture

5. Make sure you’re on the new, transparent layer and set the layer type from NORMALCOLOR to

6. Pick up the brush and choose the brush which have soft edges, like this :

7. Choose the right color and apply the brush through the photos

8. Colour all of your photos and voila! the black and white photos is colourful now!

 

And here is before-after pic! 

PS : If you want to color the tiny part of the object just right-click on your mouse in the photo and set the brush into a smaller size, then you can continue your work.

Really Simple is it? But it needs patience and creativity to find the right color of the photo. 

Thank you for seeing my second tutorial, Turn your black n white photo into a colourful one. :D

Simple But Special Photo Framing

Okay, this is my first Simple but Special Photo Framing tutorial, so son’t be angry if I don’t give you a clear step

 ._. V I’m trying my best to made this tutorial

• Open your photo with photoshop. I used photoshop 7.0 (I’m really out of date ^_^)

• Add a new layer 

• You can select the inner part but also leaving some space in the outer part(for the frame). In this case I use lasso tool. The selection must not always neat. Just let your mouse framing it freely. After the selection, it will look like this 

• Click the quick mask button. It will look like this :


•  Click Filter menu >> Distort >> Ocean Ripple

•  In this case, I set the ripple size 15 and the ripple magnitude to 14. But you can change it the way you like. Click OK

• The selection will change like this

• Click edit in standard mode icon (The icon is next to the quick mask icon)
• Click Select Menu >> Inverse. Or you can press Shift + Ctrl +I
• Fill the Selection with any color. You can use the gradient tool or paint bucket tool, or other tool 

• Finally, Click Select Menu >> Deselect. Or you can press your keyboard CTRL + D
• Tarraaa! The Framing is done. Now you have this simple but special photo frame!
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  You can experimenting with other kind of filter, like ripple, twirl, zig zag, glass and many more.
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Glass Filter Photo Framing

Ripple Filter Photo Framing

Twirl Filter Photo Framing

Zig Zag Filter Photo Framing

Explanation :

Ripple filter : Amount 858%, Size : Large

Twirl filter : Angle : 757°

Zig zag filter : Amount 99, ridges 19, style around center

Glass filter : Distortion 8, Smoothness 4, Texture : Tiny Lens