Photo Colorization in Photoshop: Bring B&W Photographs to Life

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Let's Get Started: - everyone. - Welcome to the photo colorization course. - My name is Philip Dinner. - I'm from video school online dot com, - and I'm really excited to bring you this new course of mine. - It's a photo. - Colorization is a hobby that I've had that I recently picked up, - but I really love. - It's very therapeutic and it's it's fun, - and it's a great way to bring photos back to life. - And so in this lesson, - or in this video, - I'm going to talk to you exactly what, - what this course is about, - why I'm teaching it who I am. - And then we're gonna go over what exactly is in the course syllabus and what you're going - to be learning. - So what is this course? - While photo colorization is a technique where using photo shop or a similar program, - where you add color to old black and white photographs or any black and white photographs, - As you can see here, - this is actually my very first colorization of Lou Gehrig's farewells from his farewell - speech in 1939. - As you can see here on the right, - you know, - you see the color in his face and in the sky, - and it just brings out a whole different set of emotions. - Teoh foot old photographs. - And now there's a debate going going on about whether it's, - you know, - a good thing to add color to these photographs or not. - And I totally think it's great. - I love black and white photography, - actually, - and I still take black and white photos using a film camera. - So I appreciate the black and white photography. - But back then, - when there wasn't photo color photography, - that it wasn't easily accessible. - Anyways, - um, - I feel that it's fine to take these photos and to try to who add color to them. - And again, - it's just are It's just a interpretation. - Lots of color is ations are just from one person's perspective. - It's not true history. - It will never because we can't go back and take color photos of those moments. - But it definitely, - you know, - add something to these photos, - and it's just it's just fun. - And so that's why I do it. - I think it's fun. - As I mentioned, - it's therapeutic. - It's something that I like to do. - Just, - you know, - I don't really have to think much. - I was never a painter, - but I know painting is therapeutic for a lot of people were drawing, - but I was never good at it. - But this is something that I'm kind of good at. - I don't know if it has to do with the computer. - What? - It's fun, - and I like doing it. - Eso Who am I? - I am a video instructor. - I'm a video creator. - I love all things art and, - um, - yeah, - most of my classes have to do with video creation and photography, - but I'm branching out and teaching all different types of skills now, - anything that I have, - I'm trying to teach. - And so I've taught over 20 courses online. - All of them get have gotten great reviews. - I've taught people skills that have helped them gone, - go and get jobs in the film industry and in other industries. - And so it's something that I love to do again. - My website is video school online dot com for you to check out. - I have lots of other free blog's free videos there as well, - and you could check out all my courses. - So what is in this course while in this course, - we're gonna go over everything you need to know to get started and to thrive at photo - colorization. - We're going to start out with everything from setting up your project, - choosing your brushes, - adding color, - specifically, - talking about how to add color to skin to make it look natural. - We're gonna talk about saving our photos, - um, - and then specifically, - you know, - going in talking about the details of coloring hair, - eyes, - backgrounds, - clothing. - And then after we give you all the basics, - I'm gonna take you through a couple editing sessions. - So you're gonna walk through with me, - um, - to 2 to 3 full sessions where you know, - I'm just gonna talking through everything I'm doing and you get to see exactly what I'm - doing and learn from that. - I find I learned from watching and repeating. - And so that's how I teach this course. - So, - uh, - thank you so much for checking out this course and enrolling. - I'm excited to have you here. - And, - um, - yeah, - let's just get straight to it. - So thanks for being here, - and we'll see in the next lesson. - But 3. Colorization Tools: - everyone Welcome Teoh. - Another lesson in the photo colorization course. - Today I'm talking about the tools that will use in this course. - All artists had need tools, - whether it's a cameras, - a video maker or a brush as a painter and with photo colorization, - really, - you don't meet need too many tools, - but one that makes it a lot easier is using a stylist and a pad like this from Wacom in - photo shop. - So this is just plugs in like a USB with USB, - and it's kind of like a tablet. - And with a stylist, - you can move the mouse and you can kind of brush with it. - And you can clip, - make clicks and do everything you can with a mouse. - And it's really nice, - especially for coloring for colorization, - because it's really nice just to have moved back and forth rather than the mouse. - You click and do stuff like this. - Now you can just kind of press on this tablet and paint with it, - so these come in a variety of sizes. - You can buy them on Amazon for less than $50 for sure, - maybe even like 20 I haven't checked for a while, - but again. - This is Walkom Brand W A. - C O. - M. - And this is the bamboo tablet that the first thing that you could might need. - But again, - you don't have to use this. - It just makes it a lot easier. - You can just use a mouse, - and I actually started with a mouse, - and I didn't use this until I got it later on. - The next thing that you're going to need is a photo shop, - trial or version, - so you can get a free version of photo shop for 30 days. - By going to the adobe site and under a photo shop, - you can just click up here. - There's a download trial, - but in and you get the full version of photo shop for 30 days, - which is awesome. - You can, - and then, - if you like it, - you can buy, - um, - or you can get Photoshopped elements, - which is the more consumer model of photo shop, - and it's a lot cheaper, - and that's great. - And you can use that as well. - You can use pretty much any version of photo shop. - I'm using Creative Cloud, - but you can use she has six CS five CS four CS three. - If you have an old version of Photoshopped, - that's totally fine. - Um, - so the other thing with a photo shop is, - if you need to learn more about photo shop, - you can go to take another one of my courses from video school online dot com. - Just click on the Courses page. - This will take you to a page with all of my courses, - and then just click the photo shop tools course page, - and you can read a little bit more information about it about it and enroll. - That being said within this course, - I'm going to teach you everything you need to know. - Four color colorization in photo shop so you don't need to take this course to learn in - this course. - But if you want to dive deep a little bit deeper in terms of learning all the other photo - shop tools, - check out this course. - It's another great 11 of my first ones so and you can find some free lessons on my YouTube - channel as well. - Okay, - so thank you so much for watching again. - The tools that you might possibly need are a Wacom tablet or some sort of stylists tablet - for your computer and then photo shop. - Any version will do. - Thanks for watching, - and we'll see in the next lesson by 4. What is Photo Colorization (in 4 minutes): - everyone Welcome to a cool video on basically explaining what photo colorization is. - So I'm gonna go through this time lapse of a video that I did or of a colorization I did of - Albert Einstein and kind of just talk you through it talked about how it's done and yeah, - just to help you get a better idea of what polarization is, - if you're interested in taking the online course, - check it out at video school online dot com, - it's ah, - complete photo colorization course for you to learn how to do your own color is ations okay - , - so basically, - the premise is that we're going to paint on different layers. - And so, - using brushes within photo shop, - you basically start new, - create new layers, - change the blending mode too soft light. - Some people use the blending mode, - color or overlay, - but I like soft light, - and then you basically just delete the fill of the mask and just start painting in in - specific areas of the image. - You also can play with the opacity of each layer, - and so you'll see me here. - You know, - I'm adding different pinks and reds to this photo of Albert Einstein and this photo I did - in about 20 minutes. - It was rather quick one, - but a typical colorization would take about an hour or so. - And, - um, - I always like to start with the skin and just try to get that as natural as possible. - You see me adding some yellows, - and that kind of goes where a some lighter skin is. - The reds goes where, - you know, - darker, - tanned skin is blues go in shadows and, - uh, - in, - uh, - I guess dark parts of your face stub or stubble is for men here. - I'm adding sort of a lot of red and yellow reds go on cheeks and your lobes, - and on the nose and eyelids, - yellow goes, - um yellow also goes on like the cheeks more where the fatty part of the cheek is, - and then you add some brown's, - which are actual skin tones, - and you can see quickly that the opacity of the brown layer is at 100%. - I also add some adjustment layers like hue saturation to play with the saturation of each - color, - and also brightness and contrast filters to change the brightness and contrast of the - actual black and white image below. - here. - I'm adding some backgrounds, - Uh, - colors, - you know, - just adding a little bit blue here. - I'm trying out some green for the background, - and then I'm also gonna do the hair. - But as you can see, - the skin tone of an incident is actually looking pretty good right here. - And there's millions of colors within, - you know, - skin and within everything. - Really. - And, - uh, - you know, - colorization isn't just about painting, - you know, - one skin tone. - It's about layer upon layer paying particular attention to I right here. - Um, - it's good to know what I color. - The people are your your coloring, - but you can kind of tell if their eyes look a little bit lighter. - They might be blue or green. - Um, - if not, - they might be brown and then ah, - yeah, - so that's pretty much it. - Ah, - you know, - this was a quick one, - but if I wanted to, - I would continue to go through this image and mess with it, - play with the saturation play with the background, - play with his hair, - which I added a little bit of orange too. - But yeah, - overhaul. - I think it came out pretty good. - So that's basically how to do photo colorization in a nutshell. - But if you're really, - really if you're interested in the course, - check out video school online dot com because I've got a complete course on on it. - And I go through some practice sessions as well as going through East specific step, - like starting the project. - Choosing your brushes, - skin doing skin, - eyes, - hair, - everything. - So check it out. - Video school online dot com I hope you enjoyed this video and have a good one, - but 5. Setting Up Your Project: - Hey, - everyone, - welcome to the first lesson in the colorization basics chapter today. - We're gonna be setting up our project, - so let's get straight into it s o for a photo colorization You want to grab the highest - quality image possible? - So I've grabbed a few that I have found online that you might have seen in the promo. - There's one of Babe Ruth. - There's this Einstein and there's a World War 21 And I'm also gonna be funny some or great - photos to be colorizing um, - in this course. - But anyways, - you can see in the settings that these pictures, - the picks, - elation is really high. - So here, - with um, - Einstein, - there it's the ratio is 23 92 30 29. - So that's 2000 pixels by 3000 pixels. - And if I open that up on my computer just opening it up in preview, - you can see that it is a really high quality image for such an old photograph. - And since most of these photos that we're gonna be coloring our old photos being black and - white, - that's why we're coloring them. - Um, - it might be a little hard to find images that are in high resolution anyways, - try to find one that is the highest possible. - If you're looking on Google, - you'll see, - um, - in when you search in images, - you'll see the size. - So if it's above 2000 pixels in each dimension, - that's really great. - Anything about 4000 is kind of an unnecessary, - but if it's under, - I would say 1500. - It's going to be a little hard, - because it's when we're coloring. - We will want to really zoom in so that we can color the details of people's faces. - Or if it's a really intricate photo with lots of different things, - like landscape, - nature, - plants, - backgrounds. - Ah, - but most importantly, - people's faces. - There's so many parts that we're gonna have to zoom into. - You want to have a really high resolution image, - so I'm just gonna open this up in photo shop. - So that's the first step. - So just right, - click your image open with photo shop, - and so to set up your project, - you want to go up to image mode and change from grayscale toe RGB color. - So gray scale means that this image doesn't have any color and you can add color. - You can't do anything with it. - We have to change it to RGB color first before we do anything. - So now we ever image and then the only other preparation that we have to do is play a - little bit with the brightness and contrast of this image you can see here, - since it is a black and white image. - A lot of these parts of Albert Einstein's skin is really highly exposed, - and parts are even overexposed the way that we paint on color. - In this method of colorization, - it's really hard toe add color to the to the lighter parts of the picture. - So that's why we want to add a brightness and contrast adjustment layer just by clicking - this ah, - button down here in the bottom right of the layers panel and then selecting brightness and - contrast. - And then the brightness and contrast property use box opens up and we can drop down the - brightness and contrast a little bit so you can see as I drop down the brightness, - you know, - 50 or so 50 to 60. - There's a lot more details in Einstein's face in his forehead and his cheeks, - whereas before there's not too much detail. - So It's really amazing what kind of detail this image actually has, - but we just have to play with it to get that detail out. - And now when we color it, - there's gonna be more color added to his forehead into the other areas that were a little - too bright. - Okay, - so that's pretty much it for prepping our photos. - Remember, - try to find the highest resolution possible. - You know, - over 2000 pixels with and height are are good. - And then when you bring it into Photoshopped, - change it from grayscale toe RGB mode and then at a brightness and contrast adjustment - filter and drop down that brightness so that there's more details in the photos. - So when we color it, - it'll just look a lot better. - Okay, - next, - we're gonna be talking about choosing your brush and setting up the perfect brush for - adding color to our photos. - Thanks for watching, - and we'll see in next lesson 6. Choosing a 'Brush': - a welcome back to the photo colorization course. - So today we want to talk about choosing the right brush, - size and quality. - Um, - when we're gonna be coloring, - it's really important to set. - Make sure your settings are correct. - So the size, - of course, - is going to to depend on, - you know how. - Zoom then you are where you're brushing, - what you're actually brushing and brushing, - you know, - hair. - It's gonna be a really fine brush were brought brushing, - you know, - his forehead. - It might be a little bit bigger, - of course, - in Photoshop Selector brush tool right here and up here in the brush options. - You can drop down this menu and, - um, - you know, - you can change your size and you could change your hardness. - So for hardness, - we're going to choose something like anywhere between five and 10%. - So I have this purple color right here. - Obviously, - we're not gonna be coloring Einstein's face this color, - but having that soft edge is gonna make coloring, - uh, - this photo a lot easier and a lot more natural in nature. - And in photos, - colors just kind of bleed together sometimes, - um, - you know, - if you're out in the sun, - you know, - and you're sitting on the grass. - Sometimes that grass actually reflects some green onto your skin while you're sitting there - . - And so you know, - when we're brushing things and it's a boundary between, - you know, - Einstein's skin and eyebrows, - the skin tones will actually be partly in his eyebrows. - And so having this really soft brush is a lot better than something like on a hunt 100% - hardness, - because then we just have this really fine edge, - and it's gonna be really hard to look natural. - And our colorization czar gonna look that great. - So with your brush, - make sure it's at around 10% hardness. - One trick is to hold control and option down. - And for that's for Mac users for PC. - It might be, - um, - command option, - our command all I'm not really sure If someone comments on this video, - please let others know what it is for a PC. - But if you hold on controlling ault or control option, - you can click and drag left or right to increase or decrease the diameter of the brush. - Then you can move up and down to change the hardness. - And so this is really awesome. - You know, - while you're brushing, - you know, - if you're zoomed in and your breast sizes too big, - you can just hold control. - Option down and drag rather than having to go up here, - change the size. - You don't really know how big the brushes, - you know, - you can just control option drag. - Really sweet hot key that I use all the time when I'm coloring. - Okay. - Thank you so much for watching this lesson. - Next time we're gonna be actually talking about how we're going to be adding color to our - photos. - Thank you for watching. - And we'll see you next time. - Bye. 7. How to Add Color: - eh? - What's up? - Welcome back to another lesson inthe e photo colorization course. - Today we're talking about how were actually going to add color to our black and white - photos. - So let's get straight into photo photo shop. - And this is probably the most important lesson and because it's the basis of everything - we're going to be doing. - And the rest is just basically choosing the right colors, - playing with different styles and, - uh, - practicing coloring. - So pay attention. - So there's different methods of colorization. - Some people make selections with, - you know, - the marquee tool or the lasso tool, - and then they kind of use the paint bucket to paint in colors. - Um, - and my method is actually used as we saw last time. - We're using a brush, - so it's more like a painter where we're actually painting on color rather than making - selections and just filling it in. - And so the way we do that is, - let's get straight to it is each color we start with creating a new solid color. - So down here in this menu is that looks like 1/2 circle or a circle with half filled in - half, - not filled in select solid color it's gonna ask you for a color. - And in the next lessons, - I'm gonna be telling you exactly what colors we're gonna be using for, - like skin tones and stuff like that. - But for knowledge is pick. - This is not how I would do it. - But let's just pick something that looks kind of like a skin tone. - Okay, - something like that. - And then you see that there's two things in the layer panel. - One is the color itself, - and you could double click that and shoot, - even change the color. - And then the other is this white block. - And what this is saying, - It's colored white. - And what's that saying is that wherever it's white on this photo, - it's colored white. - So what we want to dio and what I can do here is using the brush tool. - Um, - erase it. - So I'm gonna select black. - I can erase this this color. - You can see here that there's actually that erased mark I can color back in by choosing - white and just coloring it back in. - And now it's a solid white box over here, - so that's really important to pay attention to, - because first we're going to delete all of this white. - So we're deleting all of the color to do that. - Just gonna zoom out a little bit so you can see the whole picture select all by present, - command a and then deleting. - So make sure that you have white selected over here because if you have black selected see - blacks likened in delete, - it's not gonna delete it. - Make sure that you have the white selected delete. - So now there's no colored filled in. - So then what we're gonna do is usar brush and make sure we have this black box selected - because if it's not selected, - can't paying anywhere. - So make sure you have this black selected, - and then we can paint in. - But obviously that doesn't look good. - So we have to change the blending mode. - I'm just gonna paint on so you can kind of see what it looks like. - We'll zoom in, - Um, - so we have to change the blending mode first from normal. - Some people use overlay. - Some people use color. - I like using soft light and C. - It's very, - very soft light. - You can barely tell, - but we're just gonna pink layer upon layer of color, - and it's gonna make it turn in tow, - realistic looking skin. - And then, - for most of our, - our layers were going to even drop this opacity down to something like 15%. - Or we might change the opacity of our brush up here. - But it's really hard to see, - actually, - um, - this color when it's colored in so it's and you can you might be able to tell more in - darker areas. - So see, - here I moved this whole layer down by the nose, - But let me just paint somewhere on. - So it's like I'm selecting. - Be making sure I have the black selected. - Now you can see you know, - kind of it painting in if I raise though past you can really see me painting in. - And you know, - if for beginners, - a lot of beginners just take one color and then start painting in and then they call it a - day. - But really skin tones and every sort of, - uh, - everything in nature has millions and millions of colors within it. - And it's not just one color like this, - so this isn't gonna look that good. - Good. - But let me just bring up the, - uh, - Albert Einstein, - uh, - colorized photo that I've done. - So you can see here. - There's lots and lots. - And I did this in 20 minutes. - This is not a perfect job at all, - But you can see there's lots of different colors within his photo within his face. - See, - there's the reds of his cheeks. - You know, - you have some yellows up here. - I even have some blues in his eyes. - Ah, - and eye sockets, - some more reds and yellows on his nose. - Definitely some reds on the edge of his years, - you know, - lots and lots of different colors within his his face. - Um and so obviously comparing it to this. - Alex, - you know, - this color looks terrible. - Even though before when I first started doing it actually didn't look too bad. - Um, - so anyways, - that's the basic premise for adding color. - So remember. - Okay, - so I'm gonna just delete this layer elite. - Yes. - So let's go through the process one more time is what we do for each individual layer you - can do. - Who knew? - Solid color. - Choose your color. - Select. - Okay. - Click White press Command A or control A on a windows. - Teoh. - Select. - Aw, - press delete that Deletes the entire fill all the color all this red color. - Then we're gonna change the blend mode from normal to soft light. - And then, - depending on what we're doing, - we're gonna change the opacity from anywhere from zero her oneto 100%. - Then we will start painting on. - Okay, - that is it for this lesson. - In the next lesson, - we're gonna get more into coloring skin and the process of getting great looking skin in - Photoshop. - Thanks for watching. - Have a great day and we'll see in the next lesson. 8. Coloring Skin: - everyone. - Welcome back to the photo colorization course today we're talking about coloring skin, - which is also a very important topic, - and it's gonna be really fun, - so let's get straight into it. - So last time we learned about, - uh, - actually, - how to add color and how we're going to be adding color to our different projects. - And now we're gonna talk specifically about everything that goes into coloring skin. - Now I'm gonna walk you through as if, - Ah, - well, - as if you're a beginner, - as if I was doing this the very first time. - And, - uh but I promise you it's gonna get easier in the future because I have a whole system - where I've set up the colors, - the right colors so that you have a color key. - I even have a photo shop project file that you can download where everything's all set up - for you. - All you have to do is import your black and white photo and start coloring. - But now I'm going to kind of walk you through everything and talk to you a little bit about - why we're using different colors for skin. - As I mentioned before, - you know, - things in nature have millions of colors within them. - And so if you look at your skin right now, - I'm looking at my hand. - You'll notice. - You know, - there's beiges, - There's reds, - there's blues, - there's yellows. - There's all sorts of different. - There's even some green hints of green. - Definitely some browns. - And depending on what, - Um, - you know what your skin looks like. - You're gonna have lots of different colors, - too. - And so let's get started. - Basically. - So I have my photo set up, - you know, - Albert Einstein. - And then I added my brightness and contrast. - I lowered the brightness so I can get more detail. - So the first thing you want to do is add a new solid layer and this is going to be radish - layer, - and I usually start out with CED. - 1 to 1 to two is a good, - good, - solid red. - Okay, - then, - from there, - we select the Phil Command A to select all and delete. - I'm going to change this to soft light. - And then for this layer, - I'm going to use 12%. - So then, - with my brush, - I'm going to go over all of his skin. - Now it's kind of hard to see. - Ah, - the color going in. - But I can increase the capacity right now, - and then we can decrease it later so that it's easier to see where were painting. - So this epza this tutorial is gonna take a little bit longer because I'm actually, - you know, - painting while I'm discussing it. - So, - um, - bear with me as I color in his skin. - But I think this is a really important lesson. - So, - um, - stick with it. - And, - um, - if you want, - you can fast forward to, - you know, - when you see me selecting the next color. - But I'm also going to be talking to you and giving you, - um, - more information about why we're selecting these colors. - So we're gonna go over his lips and his tongue as well, - because, - um obviously, - his lips and his tongue have some red in it. - And so we're gonna add the, - you know, - tans and the browns later. - But, - um, - and I'm going over this really quick. - You know, - typically, - I would, - um, - zoom in really, - really far. - Select a small barrage, - make sure that I get all parts of the skin, - but I'm I'm going to kind of zoom through this one. - Make sure you get all of his ear. - Okay, - so now I'm going to set this opacity back to 12. - Okay, - so now we're going to select a new solid layer. - We're going, - Teoh, - select a more pinkish red. - So something, - you know, - still read Not totally pink, - but has a little bit more pink in something like this. - Hey, - select our fields, - like all delete command, - a delete and this opacity we're going to change to. - But for now, - we can just leave it at 100% so we can see where we're painting. - And, - um, - we're going to paint over all of his cheeks, - his nose and his ears, - so and of course, - we want to change this to soft light. - So I was cheeks his nose and his ears and, - um, - you know, - depending on who you're painting, - depending if you know what type of skin they have, - you know, - you might paint a little bit more red and are making a little pink. - These air just guidelines. - Um, - so I want to make sure that my hardness is that 10 around 10 is good nine, - and we're gonna paint all of this and then at the end, - we're probably gonna tweak all of this. - And we can even tweak the colors and the percentages, - So this is 12% as well. - Okay, - so we're going to select a new solid color, - and now it's We're going to select a little bit of a darker red. - So something like this and we're just going to go over the tongue and lips with us. - I mean, - typically, - you know, - people don't take pictures with their tongues out like this, - so it just be going over the lips. - But for this photo, - you got Einstein's great lips to very tongue to go over. - So not perfect. - But you get the point, - and we're gonna change this to 12% as well. - Okay, - As you can see, - there's not too much color, - but you just wait and see so new solid color. - Now we're going to select a sort of dark, - yellow ish color, - something like this, - and we're going to select all delete after you click the white area, - and this is going to go to the less tan parts of the skin. - So make sure it's on soft light, - so the reddish areas are going to look more tan in the end than these than the yellow parts - . - But this yellow, - you know, - going on on his forehead, - which looks a little bit lighter. - You know me under the eyes, - you know, - a little bit less tan, - maybe like the inner ear, - a little bit and maybe even his chin. - You know, - even here, - you know, - you can see, - Like, - what parts of the skin look a little bit lighter than the others. - Okay, - so this one we're going to put about 8%. - Okay, - so we're going to select a new solid color this time. - We are going to do a brown. - So this is where we're getting into. - You know, - more of the skin tones looked Aw, - and, - uh, - one thing you can dio were since we're gonna be painting over his entire skin is you can - actually just duplicate the first red layer that way did and just change the color. - But for us, - we're just For now, - we're just going to paint through it on. - You can tell that we're getting a little bit closer to the actual color, - try to stay away from his tongue. - So this goes over all of the skin so that if we did duplicate its red layer, - then we we would have to subtract some some spots. - And to do that, - you can just switch this from the white over here to black. - And if you see, - you know, - it's kind of like erasing what we just did. - And that's what you do to, - you know, - if you make a mistake, - you know, - I got something in his hair over here. - Just switch over to black and the race. - Pretty nifty tool. - Okay, - but this is only 20%. - So right there, - it looks actually kind of really, - but back down to 20%. - Okay, - so now we want to add some blues. - So let's choose some sort of grayish blues, - something like that. - And I'm going to add this to Jesus. - Too soft light. - This is going to go over his eye sockets. - And for if you're doing men like their stubble or their chins. - So this just as a little bit of darkness to different areas of their faces. - And so you know this, - you know, - you can't really tell. - It looks like he's pretty clean shaven, - but, - you know, - we'll just add it to his chin. - Actually, - I'm not going to add it to his cheek like that because that's just gonna get confusing with - some of the other colors we're gonna add later on. - But back here, - you know, - it's a little bit darker. - Um, - you can add this to the shadows of the face, - so just get some down here. - So there's some shadows over here. - Was adds a little bit of blue groups. - Got something in his hair. - Okay, - that looks pretty good. - Kind bear with me. - Bear with me. - Okay, - so now this is where it gets a little interesting. - So we want to add a little bit more pink red, - so choose a color. - That's, - you know, - a little bit more pink flecked. - Aw, - delete. - Change this to soft light. - Now, - instead, - I want to change this blue down to 40% actually. - So for this pink, - I want to go up here to this brush, - and now I'm gonna change the brush to 20%. - I'm gonna leave the opacity up here at 50% for now. - Now, - I do this because, - um, - now the brush is actually only painting on at 20% capacity, - and it's kind of similar to this. - And to be completely honest, - this is just how I learned from another tutorial. - But, - um, - I'm not actually sure exactly why we just don't change the opacity over here. - Um, - so this is gonna go to the ear lobes. - So the outer ears, - like so And then we can add some more to the lips and the tongue, - perhaps, - but specifically the out of years, - um, - and then also to the inner and outer eyes and the tip of the nose. - And so, - well, - inner outer eye, - right here. - Get some red right there. - And then we can also put it, - like in, - like, - the creases of skin. - Because that's, - you know, - red. - You know, - the blood kind of comes through these creases. - Okay? - So just get something increases. - And he was looking a little bit clownish writing how, - But it'll come together. - I think I painted a little bit of red up here, - and I don't really want that. - Okay, - so now we're going to add a new, - solid color, - and we're going to choose sort of a yellowish color. - So another yellowish and maybe a little bit more orange. - Not so green. - Okay, - so now this is gonna go to all of the fatty areas to make sure this is switched toe white. - When you select all and delete or it won't do, - it changes soft light still at 20% opacity brush. - And this is going to go to all of the fatty areas and areas that are close to the bone. - So his cheeks, - you know, - you get some fat in there, - and then the bridge of the nose. - It's very close to the skin. - The inner ear you can see right here is forehead at the top of the bridge of his nose. - You get some yellows in there a little bit on his chin, - just, - you know, - splash some color in there. - And yeah, - that looks pretty good. - Some of these a pastis we might change later on, - but now let's go ad the most important part. - So this I always start from a eight 846 F as a state skin tone. - And then, - from there, - you know we can at make it a little bit more Pete peaches if they're really white or go - darker if they are, - have a darker complexion. - But a 8846 f select. - Okay, - so now this is gonna be soft light, - but it's gonna be 100%. - Okay, - So just pee on and then make sure you change your brush back up to 100% and we're gonna - just start paying this on, - like so Now this just goes over all of the skin, - Okay? - But this doesn't go over the tongue. - And as you can see, - we're getting even closer to natural skin color. - Okay? - And we're going or painted and hope you're having fun. - I find this very therapeutic just going through and painting. - I was never really a painter, - but I find that I can do this. - So as you can see these yellows and these pinks that we added recently, - we're gonna have to tone those down a little bit. - So now So let's just do that really quick. - I'm just gonna drop this opacity day like 50 and then this pink. - I'm gonna also dropped down to 50 and then so select this last layer that we added, - they're going to go upto layer new adjustment hue, - saturation. - Make sure you check. - Use previous layer dick, - Create clipping mask. - Select. - Okay, - Now we're going to increase the saturation by, - like, - 50 or so. - And as you can see now, - we're getting really nice skin tone. - Really nice colors you could sometimes you gotta like, - look away or like, - turn off all these cultures and, - um, - select him, - make them all go away. - Or actually, - what I do is I duplicate this. - This the picture, - Larry, - just copy. - Paste it and put it on top. - Then, - Aiken, - turn on the I bond off Just that. - Can I see what it looks like? - Because sometimes you get going and you think it looks great. - But then you're like, - Wait, - there's way too much yellow in here, - So I'm gonna drop down this yellow a little bit more, - and then you can just kind of play with the skin tone. - So say, - you know, - just double click that brown and just see what it looks like if you at a little bit more - color. - So, - you know, - we can give him, - make him a little bit more tan, - And that looks good if we want to make him a little bit lighter skin tone, - You know, - something like that. - And it actually looks really, - really good. - You can seeing on the red coming through here. - Whoa. - No one that, - um you can see. - Yes. - Let me slept a good one. - Something. - Something like that looks pretty good, - actually. - But maybe now we drop down the saturation to, - like, - 40 something like that. - So you can see these reds coming through on his cheeks. - You can see, - you know, - the yellows coming through on it right here. - The reds in his ear lobe. - And we can go back and play with these one thing that I would do, - and I would do another layer of red or kind of like a purplish red Me, - me, - um, - magenta on his tongue because his tongue is not really looking so hot. - So let's change this to about 25% paying his tongue. - And it looks like, - you know, - I got some brown from maybe this one in this in the tongue. - So I'm gonna just delete a little bit of that, - so something like that looks better. - Then we're gonna have to play with his hair and everything, - but we'll do that in another lesson. - Okay, - so that is kind of the basis of adding skin tones to somebody And if you ask me, - it looks pretty good. - Check it out. - Pretty good. - Yeah. - Redo his eyelid. - Do some touch ups, - but Ah, - yeah, - just Ah, - pretty good stuff. - And then, - of course, - one more thing. - If we go, - we can adjust the brightness in contrast here after the fact, - and see if that looks better too. - So that includes the contrast. - Makes it look pretty good. - All right. - Thank you for watching in the next lessons will be going over his hair and the background - and stuff and go from there. - Thanks so much. - And have a great day by 9. Coloring Hair: - everyone. - Welcome back to the photo colorization course. - So today we want to talk about coloring hair. - And so there's something that, - uh is the next step for our project that we were kind of working on. - So you got Einstein here, - and I also brought up our Babe Ruth that I did before, - um, - without his hair colored. - So hair. - Obviously, - it really depends on you know what type of hair color they have just like skin, - where people have different types of skin, - People have different types of of hair. - And so usually one thing I will dio first is actually add some of the skin tone to the hair - . - Um, - just I think it just adds a little bit. - Um, - you know, - you see the skin tone in the hair and maybe all dropped the brush down Teoh 20%. - Since the skin tone is like Adam 100%. - But even though his hair is gray, - um, - it has a little bit of the color of his skin in it. - Something like this will be good. - We'll add it to his beard. - Even looks like is his moustache actually had some color already. - Okay, - so something like this. - And, - um maybe then we can add another solid color and maybe, - Ah, - let's get out above this hue, - saturation layer, - solid color and maybe add a little bit more like a gold ish orange or something like that - might be good. - And just we can add some streaks of this color. - It's like all delete, - make this a passing, - like 20% or so, - and then make this brush really small. - We're gonna change the opacity of the brush upto 100%. - Now we get this color in some streaks down here. - You know, - I don't know if this is gonna necessarily look good or not. - It might be a little too much orange, - and the thickness of the brush might be too small. - Toe look realistic. - So many will just drop this opacity down to sign like 5% where it's really, - really unnoticeable. - But it adds a little bit. - And then maybe let's just add in some, - uh, - just some dark grey, - something like that, - and this will just add in a little bit more contrast and definition to his hair. - So that's is color it in something like this, - you know, - gray hair is kind of hard because while it's black and white, - so you know the black and white image kind of covers it already. - Something like this. - And then we can go in and, - you know, - play with the color of this gray and see, - obviously, - if it's red, - it's not gonna look so good medias. - It's more of a bluish gray. - Something like that, - you know, - like that looks pretty good, - actually, - so you can see if I take off these two layers. - Actually, - if we look at all three of the four of these layers and make them disappear, - then we add them back. - Especially that one. - It really just the skin color as a lot to the hair, - so that looks pretty good. - But let's look at Babe Ruth because his hair will be a little bit more easy, - a little easier to Dio because we know it is going to be sort of a dark brown. - So let's just choose a really dark brown color, - something really dark, - something like this. - You know when you think brown, - you might think of something lighter like this. - But people's hair isn't really that color. - Usually it's if they have brown hair. - Anyways, - it's usually dark, - and if it's, - you know, - more blonde, - it's got a lot more yellow in it. - So select all delete. - Change this to soft light. - We're gonna leave it at 100% for now, - and then we can change it later. - Let's just color the sin. - Zoom in so you can really see what we're doing. - So this really looks good already. - So, - uh, - whoops. - She's the brush size. - Sure, - we get as much detail as possible. - This is looking pretty good. - I'll probably drop the opacity a little bit. - Something like this looks good. - So don't drop the past. - You like 80%. - Then let's add some of this. - Um, - how about let's add this brown down here, - which is some of the skin tones, - and I think it actually painted over a little bit of his hair already with this one, - you know you can play around. - Maybe you had a little bit of red in his hair as well, - so it's just being a little bit of its red in something like that. - Looks pretty good. - So I went over the lines a little bit, - but especially this brown, - you can see, - really add something to this image. - And of course, - we can go back in here. - Andi, - play with it. - You know, - obviously we don't want to make him look like Ah, - Munchkin, - but ah, - yeah. - So play with that. - You know, - it's hard to make someone that was naturally brown brown hair to be blonde because it just - doesn't look right. - It looks like they bleach their hair like, - uh, - the mid nineties fat of bleaching hair. - So just try to make something look natural. - Something really dark, - almost black. - Something like that looks pretty good. - So we'll work on some more projects in the future with different colored hair, - and we'll go through it. - But for now, - that's basically how to act colored hair. - You know, - add some of that skin tone and then go ahead and pick some colors that you think might work - . - It's all about experimentation at this point, - so I hope you're having fun. - Have a great day and we'll see in the next lesson by 10. Coloring Eyes: - on. - Welcome back to another lesson in the photo colorization course. - So today we're talking about eye color, - and so sometimes it's really hard to tell what color eyes people have. - But sometimes it's, - um it's not too hard, - and it's fun to experiment. - So I brought up this door feeling photo of in the Depression era because I think it's a - good one to practice I color with. - So we have this wonderful image of this lady with her Children, - and you can automatically tell that her eyes have some sort of. - It's definitely a lighter color. - If it wasn't if it was, - if she had brown eyes or or even, - um, - yeah, - darker eyes, - black eyes. - Um, - then, - well, - I don't know if anyone has black eyes, - actually would be kind of scary, - but brown eyes. - You wouldn't see this detail in her eyes, - so let's go ahead and add, - uh, - some color to her eyes. - So, - um, - for blue eyes and we can see what it looks like with different colors. - Um, - so it's new solid color for blue eyes. - I'm going to do something like a light grayish blue, - so it's got some white, - some grays not blue like this, - not overly saturated. - But something like this. - We'll look good and then we're gonna, - of course, - select all and delete and then changed to soft light. - And again, - we're just going Teoh, - keep the opacity at 100. - But then we can drop it down, - depending on what we want. - The thing to first is we want to make sure that this is that whites of the eyes are - completely white and don't have, - you know, - the browns and the yellows that come from the skin. - So be careful of painting in the eyes, - and you can't actually add a little bit of red to the eyes because, - you know, - our eyes have a little bit of read to them. - So if you go in and just paint around the eyes so this looks kind of funky right now being - so zoomed in. - But if we zoom out, - it actually looks pretty dying Good. - But they, - like, - really blew. - So let's just drop the opacity via something like 50. - So Alex really get Actually, - let's go in a little bit further and add some more detail. - So we're going to add a black layer, - so something like that and add it to the pupil. - A soft light slept Aw, - delete. - And we're just going to add it to the pupil. - Adding anything? - No, - I don't think so. - Okay, - I gotta at changes toe white. - Make sure this is white when you were a painting in. - So just add this to the pupil. - Got to get a really small brush to go in there. - Something like that. - And now she's got some really good looking eyes on. - Duh. - Yeah. - So that's basically what you do, - you know, - weaken. - See what other eye color is she might have been. - Maybe she was sort of a hazel high color. - And if we do choose like this greenish orange hazel color, - um, - I think we'll drop this opacity even down further. - So something like that that looks a little bit more natural. - Maybe she maybe she did have brown eyes. - So let's just choose some sort of brown eyes. - And we can definitely change people's eye colors this way, - and that actually looks pretty good. - You got a nice, - dark brown eye color, - but I like thinking that she had this light blue eyes. - Um, - you can kind of tell from the image that she probably did have blue eyes and with the blue - Just bring though pastie up, - . - make the image pop even more. - And that looks pretty good. - Okay, - so that's how you add eye color The steps. - Make sure that the whites of the eye are completely white or just have a little bit of red - . - Add some eye color and then on top of that ad dark. - And the pupil was by adding a dark brown black layer and added to the pupils to get that - definition. - And that looks pretty darn good. - Okay, - thank you for watching, - and we'll see you in the next lesson by 11. Coloring Backgrounds: - Hey, - welcome back to the photo colorization course. - So today we're gonna talk about adding background, - so let's get straight into it. - One thing I haven't mentioned in a while is to please visit video school online dot com. - I have all of my courses up there. - I blawg weekly about everything related Teoh Not just video making, - but photography and design and lots of cool stuff. - And there's lots of great free tutorials as well. - So thank you for letting me pitch that to you, - and I hope to see you on the site so backgrounds. - So it's a lot easier to do backgrounds when it's something simple. - Like this image of Babe Ruth saying in front of it looks like maybe the dugout or something - at a ball game and same here with this Einstein image where it's, - you know, - just kind of, - ah, - wall or a ceiling or something like that. - Let's look at one of these other backgrounds that I did with the ah Army Photo. - Where is that photo restoration? - World War Two soldiers. - So here there's a lot more colors, - but still, - it's pretty simple. - You know, - we got some greens. - We got the browns and yellows of the the bush and, - uh, - the soil, - but still pretty simple. - So for backgrounds, - it's really just going at it and experimenting because we don't know exactly what colors - thes things were, - unless you're a historian or if you unless you look up. - But I do know that in a lot of baseball stadiums, - they have sort of a brownish, - dark green color, - too, - their dugouts. - So I'm just gonna gas and see how that looks. - So select that color changes a soft light that I'm just going to start painting in. - So and then I can play with the opacity later. - I was gonna Pete this in down here back here, - and to me, - this is are looking pretty good because it looks like that a ball game, - but the green might be a little too strong. - So then, - of course, - we want to add some color other colors into this background. - We're not just gonna leave it at one color and see I got a little bit on his cheek, - which it's not necessarily bad, - because the reflection of this green might hit the back of his head and it might come - through so I'm just gonna play around with this Green may make it even darker. - Something, - of course, - as color. - It's hard to imagine because all we know is this photo as a black and white photo. - We're gonna do that. - And then we're going to add sort of a another brown layer because there's lots of browns - and grays and things in nature and in things that we build in buildings. - And so we're going to change this to soft light, - as always. - And now I'm just gonna paint on a little bit here and there. - Know, - changed my brush, - something really big and soft. - Something like that. - Now let's just drop this a pastie, - something like that. - And then maybe let's add a little bit of graced blue to it. - No, - just a little wear and tear. - Change this to soft light and bigger so you can see it's just me kind of playing around and - seeing what looks good. - So something like that looks pretty good. - Actually, - you guys in different colors is dark background, - so that looks good. - So let's talk about his shirt a little bit. - So I think this is a picture from when he's on the Yankees, - obviously with his pinstripes. - So we're just going to kind of dark in those pins drives since they're a really dark color - . - Um, - so we're just going to select something like a dark, - dark, - dark, - bluish gray, - something like this. - And if we select it, - delete all the fill changed the soft light. - If we paint over this, - you can see it will add a little bit more detail as I paint over the whites. - So let me just paint all that in, - like this pain over that gray shirt. - What? - I don't know what color the shirt is we can kind of play around with under sure if we want - , - we can add another solid color. - Say, - we think it is like a dark blue. - We can choose a car that's a little bit more blue changes to soft light. - We'll play with the opacity in a second, - but I just wanna paint it first. - Something like this. - Okay. - And then drop the opacity to even lower. - He's something like that turned on and off. - You know, - it just gives a little color. - It can even go over these pinstripes with this color, - and it will you know, - look a little bit better. - So going over these pinstripes, - a little blue to it. - Maybe it's the reflection of the sky that gives it a nice blue color. - Who knows? - You know how to be too careful, - Because the whites don't pick up too much of this blue that I'm painting on. - If we want, - we can go back and, - you know, - try some different colors for these pinstripes. - Maybe it was just purely black. - Me? - It was more of a brown. - And maybe, - you know, - actually, - the shirt might have a bit of ah beige ish tan color to it because, - you know, - I was worn. - And as our white shirts get worn out, - you know, - they get a little bit brownish are tan, - but I can see that I added some of this color to his skin. - So I'm gonna get rid of that because I like skin How it is, - So something like that might look pretty good, - but I actually like it before, - so I'm gonna go back to this kind of dark grey blue. - So that is basically how you do backgrounds. - And for Einstein, - I will just add the background that I had already added, - I added this kind of light gray, - and then I added this dark blue to his coat to add a little bit color because it was - probably just a black coat, - but adding a little bit of color makes it pop. - This is his hair layered that I did before. - But you can see, - you know, - not too much color. - Maybe, - you know, - maybe the the ceiling was more brown or something, - so I can choose something more brown. - But I actually got a lot of his hair in this as well. - That's me not being perfect. - So I'm gonna take out some of that. - Sure, - it's like the white on Mike. - Yeah, - let's go through this. - Taken out of his hair, - Latina and there we got a pretty nice looking picture of Albert Einstein in color. - So it's pretty amazing what you can dio whips. - But like Babe Ruth, - I would kind of go through this again, - maybe add some more colors to the ceiling at some you know, - grays and blues, - some greens, - even just to see what it looks like. - But if you you know, - toggle on and off, - it looks pretty good. - Actually, - and same for a baby Ruth. - Put this black and white photo on the top. - Looks pretty darn good to me. - Well, - never, - never get it perfect. - But it's pretty good, - and it's fun to look at with some color. - All right, - Thanks for watching and have a great day, - but 12. Saving Your Photos: - Hey, - welcome back to another lesson today. - We're talking about saving your photo from photo shop. - So once you have your project colored and you are happy with it, - how do you actually save it so that you can share it with the world? - Well, - here's a great product I worked on. - This was one of my very first projects, - actually. - And it was the 1st 1 that I did from a World War two photo. - Those are really great and funded toe color on, - and it really just gives you a whole new look at, - you know, - World War two, - because we're used to just seeing black and white photos. - And it seems like, - you know, - there's this barrier Teoh understanding it, - and obviously we still can't understand being in war, - anything like that, - but adding color, - it just gives it more life. - And it makes it, - you know, - almost more real than you know, - just the black and white photos. - So anyways, - to save there's different options. - So first, - you can just go up file and save as and, - uh, - you can choose different options like J Peg. - You can save a P and G Ah, - you can save it as another Photoshopped file a tiff file, - which is a really big file. - Um, - so if you just want to save a J peg at the size that this photo is, - then you can just do that. - But say you have this photo and you want to make it a specific size. - For example, - say you're posting it on the Web on your blogged, - and you need it to be 600 pixels wide. - Well, - then you would go upto file and then save for Web. - This brings up this module that that shows you what it looks like. - And then you can choose different presets from P and G or J Peg or a gift. - So say you want J Peg. - You can change the quality to maximum or whatever you want. - Then down here, - it says image size say we want to be 6600 pixels wide. - It automatically changes it from 600 to 482 pixels high. - So and it shows you that it's at 35% or you can, - you know, - do 50% or whatever you want. - You can change it, - acquaint pixels or percentage or anything like that, - which is really awesome, - especially if you won't need a specific size for the Web or for printing out or something - like that. - You just click save and it saves it out. - So say, - we want this to be like a thumbnail size and we'll do like I don't know how big a thumbnail - is, - but we'll do 2 50 That might be even too big. - So let's do 1 50 Then we can save it again. - Saved desktop thumbnail test Saves it out. - I go to my finder, - going on my desktop from now test. - Now it shows up as a thumb now, - So if you want to use this as a thumbnail, - you can Okay, - so those are the different ways to save or export from photo shop. - Thank you for watching, - and we'll see you in the next lesson. - Have a great day 13. Colorization 1 - WWII Photo - Part 1: - Hey there. - Welcome back to another lesson in the photo colorization course. - So up until this point, - we've kind of gone through all of the different aspects of colorization, - from skin tones to hair and eyes and backgrounds. - So I want to put it all together, - and in it in this chapter, - I'm gonna be going through a few photos in each less, - and I will take one photo and just kind of walk through the entire process of coloring it. - So let's get straight to it. - So for this lesson on going to color, - this World War two photo of these two guys sitting in the bush, - it looks like they are, - you know, - just sitting around waiting for something to happen. - Um and so I think this is gonna be a really fun photo toe work with. - And so obviously, - I just open it up in photo shop. - The first thing we want to do is make sure that the image mode is set to RGB color. - So go ahead and set it to RGB color. - And then, - if you want, - in the supplemental materials of this course, - I have included a, - um, - chart, - basically a cheat sheet that will really help you out to get you started. - So it's called skin color Cheat chief. - So if you open up that project in photo shop first, - you'll get this chart where it shows all of the different colors that will be using in - order for painting on skin. - And all of these, - of course, - are are adjustable, - and you can change. - You can. - You might have to change the tone or the hue of these colors, - but this is just a reference point, - and then also are the actual layers set up properly. - So we have all these layers, - and actually I'm going to go in and change. - The opacity is so it's actually initially starting out, - as the proper opacity is the proper blend mode and is the proper color. - So when you when you open up your own image in a photo shop, - all you have to do is go and select all of these layers and right, - click them and duplicate and then choose document and then choose your new image. - Whatever it is that if you do that and you go over to your image, - check it out. - It's all in here already, - which is really awesome. - Um so you might have to fiddle with the size, - it showing up half colored because the thing this image wasn't the same size as this images - . - But all you have to do is just select the Phils for each layer, - select all and delete. - So I'm just going through and I'm going to delete all of the fills that all these colors I - don't have any fill in them and they aren't showing up. - Okay, - so once I go through that, - we can I can kind of get started. - Okay, - So then with this sort of cheat sheet, - which you can you know, - resize to however you want, - it shows the percentages of these different colors that we want and so we can go through - and change them as well. - So for the red will change to 12% and again we might have toe adjust this later. - But for now, - let's just I'll show you how you actually change the opacity of each layer. - This yellow will start out with 10 but the blue will start out 30. - The brown will start out at 20. - So for these two layers, - it's 50% opacity plus a 20% brush opacity, - so you'll have to remember for those two layers to go in and change that brush opacity out - . - And this last one is actually 100% capacity. - Okay, - so and then it also kind of gives you an idea for what you want to color in for each of - these layers. - So for this 1st 1 this red, - we're gonna color in all the skin for the cheeks and nose, - You know, - this next color? - Well, - we're just going to kind of go through each of these and go ahead and do it. - So let's get started. - This is going to be a little bit of a longer lesson, - because I'm walking you through and this is actually in real time, - and so it might take a little bit longer, - but I hope you enjoy it. - So let's start off with, - um, - we're gonna do all the skin at once for both of these guys. - So just select that fill area, - makes sure you have your brush selected, - and you can set your capacity or your hardness and the size just by clicking, - holding control and all together and dragging either up or down or left or right? - So I'm just gonna color over this guy's face again. - Doesn't have to be to perfect right here. - Especially since this one isn't a very close up image of these guys faces. - And it's actually, - um, - this is probably the minimum size that will work for coloring. - I mean, - of course you can use a photo. - That's resolution isn't as high as this, - but it's gonna be a lot harder. - You can already tell I'm zoomed in 200% to get to these guys. - These guys, - his face, - and I'm still zoomed out quite a bit. - So you want to make sure that you pick photos that have, - uh ah, - high enough resolution Teoh really be able to zoom into their faces or whatever the photo - is of and see that detail It's that you can color within the lines and get a really nice - looking image. - Okay, - so I'm starting with this guy and we got this guy's color in so far, - I'm just gonna go over this guy's face. - And since I don't have too much to say in this lesson, - I'm just gonna go at and finish coloring this guy's face looks like we're gonna have a lot - of fun with this image cause there's gonna be lots of cool colors to add to their their - shirts and the camouflage that they're wearing. - I want to make sure, - actually, - to go over this guys is mouth as well. - This first red I like going over the mouth with Okay, - so now I'm going to select the 2nd 1 And if we look back at our chief, - she this is for cheeks, - nose and ears. - Perfect. - So select that zoom in groups. - Zoom in. - Make sure it's like this, - Phil. - It's like your brush cheeks nos and years. - And while we're at it, - I'm just gonna add a little bit to the lips, - A swell just to keep adding some more color to those lips. - And ah, - these guys that look like they have some dirt in their face that we're gonna have to play - around, - add some, - you know, - darker looking colors to their faces, - maybe some browns and greens just to get that in as well. - So this third red, - we just add to the lips and again we might play with the capacity a little bit later. - But for now, - That's good. - Okay, - so let's move on to this dark yellow. - This dark yellow later layer is going to be put on the last hand parts of their skin. - So these guys, - though the these guys have been sitting out in the sun for ages, - so we're not I'm guessing that they're actually pretty tan already, - but maybe to this guy's chest, - you know, - the top of this guy's hands actually look a little bit, - uh, - less tan. - But really, - right now, - it's just kind of playing, - adding a little bit of a bit of detail so that we actually get a more natural looking skin - me to this guy's forehead because, - you know, - they're wearing these helmets and the top of their heads might have been shaded a little - bit more. - Okay, - so let's choose this blue. - So this goes in the shadows in, - you know, - for for guys where they're stubble would be in their beards also maybe bottom and top of - their lips, - definitely in their eye sockets. - You see their shadows right here, - definitely put it in the shadow of where their helmet is. - And again, - this photo is not that great of quality. - At least where? - I mean, - we're zoomed in a lot, - so when we're zoomed out, - it's not too bad, - but and again add to the shadows on their hands down here just to add a little bit color. - Okay, - so that's good. - So now let's take this brown and we're gonna go over all the skin. - So zoom in and we're just gonna go over all the skin with this brown. - This one is gonna be tough because their eyes are a little squinty. - And with the picks elation, - we're not gonna have too much, - um, - too much detail. - It looks like I was using black. - So I want to make sure this has changed the way I was wondering why this wasn't actually - coloring in. - So if that ever happens to you and you're like, - why isn't my color coloring in check over here and make sure that the color you're - selecting is actually white? - Because that means you're actually filling in this thing, - Phil layer with white. - So I'm just gonna go out and paint over their faces. - The cool thing about this, - too, - is that we're using this brown that is probably going to be useful in a lot of their - clothing and in the background. - Now, - depending if we're we might need to add another brown layered because the opacity or that - Hugh might be a little different than this one. - But once we're done with the skin and we might be able to use some of these layers for some - of the other colors in this photo for backgrounds and for all sorts of other things. - So this brown basically goes over everything. - Sometimes it can go over the lip. - Sometimes we don't want it to go over the lips, - but we're looking pretty good so far. - Okay, - so now for this pinkish color, - make sure we change our brush opacity down to 20%. - And again, - this, - uh, - if we look back at our chart, - zoom out. - So this is gonna be for ear lobes, - inner and outer eyes in the creases and people's faces and in the tip of the nose. - So this is another one, - you know, - it's gonna add a little bit. - It'll looked hand once we add our final layer. - So let's just add it to the tip of the nose. - Make sure we have our white selected add to the tip of the nose. - We're gonna have to really decrease the brush size here that year is even though you can't - really see splash a little on the lips. - You know me while we're at it, - put some on the fingernails. - The fingernails are gonna have a little bit of of red as well. - Make sure we have this white selected keeps getting messed up. - I must be pressing a hot key That changed the changes. - It from white to black. - Okay, - so tip of the nose, - ear lobes, - that's that's pretty good. - Inner outer eyes. - Maybe a little bit. - Okay, - so with this yellow same thing, - we're gonna leave the opacity at 20%. - Now, - this goes into the more fatty parts of people skin not necessarily fat, - but, - you know, - in their cheeks and also in parts of the skin, - where it's laid close to the bone. - So, - like the bridge of the nose is gonna be a little bit lighter. - And then also the inner ear for these guys. - We don't really see the inner ear, - but we'll add some to this guy's cheeks. - This guy had a lot of dirt on his face, - so we might have to mess around with that, - too. - Okay, - maybe a little more to the forehead. - Okay, - Just add a little bit around their hands. - And then finally with this brown skin layer and it said, - though pastie at 100 we're gonna go over everything. - Now, - this is just another starting point in the resource is I also have a skin tones chart. - So there's a bunch of skin tones now you can use There's two different ones. - You can kind of just start from one of these. - You know, - we have more tan for darker skins, - for very light skins for really any type of skin color here that you can start out from. - But for us, - I'm just starting at this same 846 f hex number down here. - Rubes gonna cancel that. - And so now we just paint over everything. - And as you noticed, - all these layers are set up with the soft light blend mode. - Okay, - so let's just paint. - And with the 100% capacity, - it really adds a lot of color right now, - and it really makes everything come together. - This guy's face is looking pretty good already gonna get around those lips around that - cigarette he's smoking. - Let's get this guy. - And I'm probably going to have to darken up this this color a little bit to make it a - little bit more tan looking. - And, - um, - you can also, - you know, - we might want to use different skins, - different colors, - different versions of this layer for each person because they probably don't have identical - skin tones. - Make sure you get all our hands. - So I'm going a little quick. - I would be a little bit more perfectionistic if I was doing this for, - uh, - for really for, - you know, - sharing with the world. - But for this tutorial, - you'll get the point. - But all these little errors I'm making in the, - uh, - you know, - missing the colors, - then, - uh, - missing the edges of things. - Don't do that. 14. Colorization 1 - WWII Photo - Part 2: - Okay, - so then, - with this one, - we want to go up to layer with its selected new adjustment and not vibrance. - We want to select Ah, - layer new adjustment hue, - saturation use previous layered to create clipping mass. - Select. - Okay. - And then, - you know, - increase or decrease the saturation. - Gonna increase it about like that And we're looking good. - It's looking a little orangey. - So maybe let's just play around with this. - Maybe a little less saturated and we can change its saturation with that saturation layer - we just added, - or just by picking color, - that's a little bit more gray. - Something like that. - I was actually looking pretty good. - One thing we didn't do with this is add a new brightness contrast filter above the original - image. - We can do that, - but it's actually looking pretty good on. - That's why I hadn't done it before. - You can add some contrast. - We can also do this at the end if we want I So something like that's actually looking - pretty good. - So maybe what I'm gonna do, - though going into for this specific image is I'm going to add a new solid color and just - pick something that's a little bit more dark brown, - and I'm going to delete that Phil, - change it too soft light, - then change the opacity to, - like, - 20% a little bit similar to this other brown. - And then just splash it on these guys cheeks, - especially this guy, - because he's got some dirt on his face and being his neck, - something like that put some on their hands, - which look like they're pretty dirty. - Okay, - so that's looking pretty good, - but we are far from done, - so let's start with their clothing. - So let's pick a salt new song color. - Pick something that's like a dark green. - Something like this. - I believe that colorful I'm gonna leave, - though passed yet 100 for now. - Choose soft light. - Just start painting in and you can already see. - You know, - adding some color to their clothing makes their faces look even more natural. - Because without this, - it's hard to tell. - You know, - if the colors of their faces actually looks natural. - Change this up makes fix up that edge that I messed up. - She's gonna color over kind of all their clothes because this is a good starting point for - the Army color for their clothes. - You know, - everything kind of has this green color to it. - Then we're gonna go in and add some browns and tans and some even darker greens. - Okay, - I hope you're enjoying this tutorial so far. - I missed this guy's other hand right here. - I didn't even see it holding his, - uh, - looks like machine gun right there. - So I'm just gonna skip that for now. - You don't need to see me kind of go through all this again. - Okay, - so that's looking pretty good already. - So now we're gonna add some browns on. - What we can do is just choose this brown and paint a little bit into their, - you know, - shirts. - Now, - this is only 20% so we might well, - definitely add some more, - and it's okay if you go over the edge is a little bit, - as I have said before. - Um, - because the way light is, - you know, - things reflect off each other, - so I'm gonna select, - like, - kind of like more gold ish brown to add. - But as I was saying, - um, - and make sure this is that soft light, - you know, - some of this green is going to reflect up into their skin. - Wow. - So this is gonna be really bright. - So I'm going to decrease this toe like 37% or so. - Just a little bit of color, - A little bit color in their helmet. - You know, - I'd probably be good. - Teoh, - go in and touch up each individual parts of this camouflage, - but just adding a little color makes it look pretty good. - I'm just, - like, - kind of painting around, - not being too perfectionistic right now. - One thing I like doing, - which I've probably said before, - is if you select all and copy the this bottom image, - just put at the top and then you can talk about it, - toggle it on and off. - You can start to see it really coming together. - Okay, - so that's looking pretty good for them so far. - So let's get some color toe these guns that they're holding so solid color me it's gonna be - like a dark grey. - But sometimes I like adding, - like a little bit of blue to these. - These things that are completely black just adds a little bit of, - um I know character to it. - So something like this, - it makes it look a little bit more natural. - Of course, - we can go back in it and change the color. - If this is a little too blue, - she might be Or maybe is brown right here. - You never know. - I don't know. - I'm not a gun expert, - So Okay, - so that's looking pretty good now for the background and see, - this photo is really detailed. - We got these guys back here, - but most of all is just kind of like this dirt and branches and, - you know, - twigs. - I've been tourney up along the way, - so I'm just gonna pick some sort of like de saturated tan color like this. - And again, - I'm just trying things out. - All the stuff we might change later. - I'm just going to start going over some of the dirt and all this stir is gonna have a ton - of different color in it. - Browns, - blacks, - greens from the plants and a debris of everything. - The sky is gonna have some blue in it. - Okay, - So as you can see, - it's looking it doesn't like to natural right here is gonna add this brown to the whole - background, - Actually, - then, - by adding other stuff, - other colors to the sky and everything is going to really make it pop groups. - So we've got this guy's backpack, - so I'm just gonna go through select this camouflage color that we use before add it to the - backpack. - Also to this I don't know what that is. - A knife back there or something. - Okay. - Had some of this brown because that's looking a little bit better. - So now I want to get a new sort of darker brown color, - but something like this with me with a little bit of red and move this on top of everything - . - Change it too. - Soft light. - Select. - Oh, - delete. - Just add some to maybe toe all this dirt up front. - Not try. - And I'm the stuff that doesn't have too much too many twigs on it. - Candy. - As you can see up here, - the dirt and the friends kind of hard toe get because it's so bright. - Okay, - so now let's get another sort of more yellowish brown color. - So I've never done this photo before, - you know? - So I'm not actually I'm kind of going along at it as if, - you know, - it was my first time. - Well, - it actually is my first time. - So were just experimenting together. - change the blend layer from normal to soft light. - Something like this. - It's looking kind of good. - So I'm just adding to a little bit of this start. - Not all of it. - This one's adding a lot of color. - Actually, - it kind of like the way this one looks. - Okay, - so that's looking pretty good. - So far. - So, - of course Weaken. - Choose our black and white photo put at the top. - Tuggle it on and off. - Okay, - so now let's just add a little bit of green to the background. - So some sort of dark green that we add to the plants. - We can also use one of these colors down here that we used for the shirts and stuff. - But we're gonna drop the opacity for this one a little bit. - Eso we wanted different layers, - So this is gonna be about 50%. - May go in and just a little bit of green to some of these plants. - Appear on these twigs. - You know, - obviously they looked pretty dead, - but they'll probably have a little bit more green in them. - Still. - Okay, - I got some leaves down here too. - I want to add some green too. - Okay, - so now with this. - Ah, - let's see. - With maybe with this Brown right here, - let's add just some brown to these guys back here to their helmets. - Everything really bright back there. - And maybe we'll do it with this Brown as well. - It's definitely not perfect right here. - It's hard to tell. - There's like a lot of people in the background. - It looks like this guy's got a person to this blob. - That blob is the person. - OK, - so now let's go in and add some gray. - What don't want that? - So it's like your top layer and then create a new sought and it will pop it up above it. - So let's just do a gray, - maybe with a little bit of brown in it, - something really dark. - This is gonna be a lot more detail in the background change into soft light. - So especially with this building back here, - I think it looks like a building anyways on some color to it. - You know, - maybe to this guy, - these guys pants, - I don't know that didn't look too good. - Some of these branches just adding some detail. - That's what we're doing now, - even going over some of the parts of this het their helmets. - It just adds a little bit more detail. - This makes things pop a little bit. - Okay, - so just color and around, - So it's looking pretty good. - You know, - I'm just gonna keep going through this and keep adding I'm just gonna keep adding layer - upon layer of color. - But as you can tell, - it's coming together. - I think the last thing I'll do is just a lot at a little bit of blue, - sort of sky blue. - Something that's pretty, - pretty light. - Pretty gray. - Then we'll call it a lesson. - So the lead off that Phil changed Teoh soft light. - We're just gonna paint over the sky. - Was area up here. - Make sure you have a really soft brush for this. - You know, - the sky, - the light kind of fades into all the debris and the people back here and change the opacity - . - You even change the color depending on what we want. - You know, - maybe it's a little We wanted to be a little red or something, - but we don't know exactly what this guy was like. - It looks maybe like it was either Justin over exposed picture. - Or, - um, - if it was like a cloudy day. - So something like this is probably the best that we can do right now, - especially with you being so bright. - So it's looking pretty darn good. - Um, - so that's pretty much where I'm going to stop right now. - I hope you kind of enjoyed this lesson. - It it's definitely not perfect. - And I would keep going at it. - But you could kind of see the skin tones and all the detail that goes into the faces. - And at a quick glance, - it actually looks pretty good, - you know? - Actually, - I might, - you know, - make a hue and saturation layer up here and just de saturate everything a little bit, - and it might make it look a little bit more natural. - So something like that looks pretty good. - Actually, - I Thanks for watching this practice session. - I hope you enjoyed it. - I'll be doing a couple more for this course, - and I hope you enjoy those as well. - I'm gonna be doing some more close up portrait. - It's our close up portrait. - And then I got a fun one to finish it off. - So get ready for that. - Thank you so much for watching and we'll see next time. - Bye. 15. Colorization 2 - Aretha Franklin: - Hey, - everyone, - welcome back to the photo colorization course brought to you by video school online dot com - . - So today we got a great colorization project that I'm going to do with you of Aretha - Franklin. - So there's gonna be really great one. - Um and I actually practice beforehand so that I kind of know how to get through it a little - bit faster this time, - but yes. - Oh, - great picture of a great person. - And so again, - I'm just going to copy all of my colors my starter colors and my group cheat sheet color - from our Photoshopped file cheat sheet to, - uh, - the new document. - And then, - uh, - no, - I don't want to cancel that. - I am going to go through each and just delete all of the Phils. - So this doesn't take too much time, - as you can tell. - And it's a lot better than having to create new late color layers for each layer. - Now, - of course, - um, - we're going to have to play around with these colors because Aretha has a different skin - tone than, - um while the in the past pictures. - So let's get straight to it. - So starting off, - we're just going to stick with the same, - um, - red. - And we're just gonna paint in two and using our key color, - uh, - chief, - she we're gonna paint in tow all of the skin, - So let's go ahead and do that. - And we're going to changes to 12% opacity. - So let's just go ahead and pee in all of her skin. - And one thing that I'm going to show you later. - That is really helpful for all of these colorization Z is if you have some sort of - reference for, - um for their skin tone and hair color. - And so I found a more modern picture of Aretha Franklin that's in color so that I can - actually now I can kind of compare her skin color. - Of course, - people skin colors change with age. - Um, - or depending on the season. - But we can get a little bit closer to what her skin actually looks like using that photo. - So again, - I'm just painting all over skin with this red. - Actually, - I'm going to go over her lips with this red as well. - One sort of advanced tip that you can use to make sure your coloring in every section that - you need to color in this few option click or all click this fill, - you can kind of see where I missed. - And I'm just gonna go ahead and paying in all of this area because I know this is where her - skin is. - You all click to go off. - So that's kind of where her hair is coming in. - But I'm just gonna go ahead whips and pain in right there. - I have all the holes painted, - and and make sure I have white selected on Just get this little area right there. - Okay, - so then we're gonna use this pinkish color and go over her her cheeks, - and we can leave the opacity at, - um, - 100 right now. - Go over her nose and, - um, - her other cheek. - So with Aretha Franklin, - I noticed in a lot of her photos, - and I'm going to change this to 12% opacity. - And it s in a lot of her painting pictures. - She wears ah, - lot of blush. - So she has this nice red color and her cheeks, - so there's gonna really make her cheeks look at look really unnatural. - And then with this this red, - I'm gonna go over her lips. - One more time. - It was a dark red, - you know, - we might want to change up the color a little bit and play with the opacity, - and it might help Teoh play with, - though passing everything afterwards. - So I'm going to actually, - let's make this, - like 40%. - For now. - Let's let's go back to, - like, - 20%. - Drop it down and then I'm just gonna go ahead and make this a little darker and maybe with - a little bit more purple in it. - So something like this might be good and then boost that capacity just a little bit. - I'll play with that a little bit later. - Eso with this dark yellow color, - Um, - I'm going to go over the less tan parts of skin. - So for Aretha just a little bit in her forehead, - um, - you can see the where it's not as dark. - You know, - I just look at the photo and whether it's tan or not, - just the more overexposed parts you can add this sort of yellow, - too. - I'm gonna drop this down to, - like, - 7% though. - So, - with the blue with women compared to men using this blue, - uh, - you really only have to use it for, - um, - in the shadows and maybe a little bit upper and under the lip, - but definitely just in more so in the shadows. - And I made this opacity 40% for now. - You can put some in the ear right here. - Maybe, - uh, - where her eyeliner is. - I don't know what Her island, - what color? - Her eyeliner is probably just black but dark brown. - But we'll just add a little bit blue to that. - So that's looking pretty good, - actually. - So now with this brown, - we're just gonna go over all the skin, - gonna make this 20% just gonna paint over everything except for her lips were just gonna - leave her lips the way they are. - Okay, - so this one's looking pretty good so far. - Might have to tone down that blew in her upper lip. - I don't think that that looks so good right now. - Okay, - so now we're gonna use this pink and drop the brush opacity to, - like, - 40% a little bit higher this time, - cause I'm just gonna add some more pink blush right here, - just like that. - And then for her knows I'm gonna drop it down 20% and his pain, - the tip of her nose with that, - Okay? - And she doesn't really have any creases to her skin that I want to use this pink for, - but I'll do it to her ear lobe. - So for yellow again, - not too much. - Just maybe a little bit in her forehead. - This will add a little gold to her forehead. - You down here on her her neck. - Okay, - so she's looking a little clownish right now, - but that's gonna go away in a second. - So for skin tones, - this is the skin tone I've been using for the past few. - But of course, - those were people with with Caucasian skin. - And so I'm going to use my skin tone chart, - which is in the course. - Resource is so you can use either one of these. - I'm going to go in and use this 1st 1 and just pick a different sort of skin tone for her. - And I'm not exactly sure which one will work perfectly, - but I'm just gonna guess its around made 29 or 30. - I was gonna exit out of that skin tone, - make that disappear. - And at 100% Phil and 100% capacity. - I'm just gonna go ahead and paint in. - Make sure you have this selected. - I can tell this is going to be head. - That blush is little to read, - but the brown is actually, - um, - looking good for her skin. - We might have to play with it a little bit later on. - And, - of course, - with all these were going to play with the skin tones and all these colors that we used to - make it look more natural. - But I can tell where the parts that don't have as much yellow and red. - That, - um this is actually a pretty good color for her. - Okay, - so it was looking pretty good. - So first things first, - I'm going to tone down some of this. - These so? - Actually, - this should be They should definitely be like opacity. - 33. - I don't know why it was up so high and insane with this yellow. - We're gonna drop this down, - even lower sign, - like, - 20. - So this is looking pretty good with this yellow. - I'm also going to drop down a little bit, - uh, - this one to both of the yellows, - and then it dropped down. - There's not too many yellow tones and her her skin, - and this is looking pretty good. - I'm missing. - I see this blue part right there. - It's really shining through. - So I think I missed some of this brown and it's looking pretty good. - So what I'm going to do is actually bring in a photo of Aretha Franklin now so that we can - kind of compare. - So she has kind of some lighter skins. - Maybe it has a little bit more orange to it. - So it's just bump of that orange something, - something like that. - But maybe a little that that you are a little less saturated. - So here we're going to again at our layer new adjustment. - Fill our layer hue saturation. - Using previous layer to create clipping mask than me will just decrease the saturation a - little bit. - So that's looking pretty good. - Now, - this blush, - maybe we can, - you know, - change the color of this Blash, - make it a little bit more. - Just read and not as pink. - And maybe ah, - get rid of some of it that's closer to her. - Knows that we're here. - I'm not a professional makeup artist. - S o. - I'm not exactly sure how this all goes, - but more So just on our cheeks, - something like this may get really, - really soft brush. - Something like that looks a little bit better. - Now. - We want toe touch up her lips because I think that we want to add some more, - uh, - pink, - pink to it. - So let's pick a nice pink color something. - Something like that might look good. - Okay. - Delete that, - Phil. - I'm sure I have my white selected over here. - Delete changed. - Too soft light. - Okay, - so from here, - there's gonna pee in her lips. - Yeah, - This looks really good, - actually. - Okay. - Something like that. - Uh, - maybe drop that opacity a little bit. - Maybe, - Uh, - the edges are getting. - I painted, - I think a little too close to her lips with some of these browns. - So I'm gonna just leaked some of these browns their lips. - Yeah. - This because we're blending colors right here and sometimes with the brown gets the brown - skin tongue gets in the lips. - It doesn't look so good. - I'm just going to go back to the lip, - color the lipstick and paint in a little bit more. - Get all the edges. - Okay, - so this is looking really good. - So now let's go ahead and add a color for her hair. - So let's get, - like, - a really dark brown. - Something like this. - Lead that, - Phil, - change it too soft, - light and then just pay in. - So something like that. - Okay, - looking pretty good. - So I'm gonna go over her eyebrows again. - And with this brown, - we might be able Teoh use it for her eye color to although the opacity might be different. - So I'm gonna just create a new layer for the for the eye color. - Okay, - so that's looking pretty good. - Maybe go over the eyeliner. - Doesn't look good. - Okay, - so this is looking really good. - So now let's get her eye color. - So let's just create a new solid color, - Another sort of brown, - but maybe a lighter brown. - The lead that Phil later layer, - the fill changed its soft light. - No, - it's just color in her eyes. - I think so. - It's looking pretty good. - Maybe. - Ah, - lighter, - Brown. - And then drop that opacity. - Something like that is looking pretty good. - Okay, - so now let's just add a little bit of color to the background. - I don't know what color those dresses, - but I'm guessing maybe something gold or silver. - Let's try a little bit of gold. - I like the idea of adding some gold that dress. - So during the same process, - changing the opacity, - um, - and see it's shining. - So it might be a little gold. - Something like that. - Try to stay in the lines now the background. - It's hard to tell with this background because it's, - uh, - kind of ambiguous. - So I'm just gonna change this to soft light without deleting the Philip yet. - So now you could kind of see what the background looks like and we can select a color. - So I might just be, - like a dark grey or maybe like, - more like a brown ish. - You can kind of see, - uh, - I don't think it's really like a red background, - but maybe I kind of like this Brown. - So I'm gonna select that Brown, - select the filled delete it, - make sure I have my white selected and then pain in the background. - Gonna turn off this newer picture of Aretha and his pee in the background. - And I think this sort of frame, - like Vignette is actually just coming from the photo I downloaded. - It's not actually from this image itself. - Whoops. - It's hard to get in this little hole right here. - Um, - and I don't know if the Brown is look working that good. - So let's do one that's a little bit more neutrals. - Some, - something like this. - Maybe if it had a little bit of blue in it, - that looks better. - And it makes you know her pop. - It makes everything about her pop a little bit more. - So let's go ahead and copy the original picture so we can kind of compare and contrast. - And if we toggle on and off, - it's looking pretty good. - I really like how this one has come out. - You know, - that blush might be a little bit too much still. - So let's, - uh, - drop down that oh past even like seven. - Something like that and this one as well. - It's dropped down to me like 20. - I might be a little bit more natural on comparing it to the newer image of Aretha. - It's looking pretty darn good. - Okay, - so that was another practice session with, - um, - Aretha Franklin, - A different skin tone and a different type of image, - more of a portrait, - which, - as you can tell us a lot easier and quicker to do than the last one, - which was the World War Two photo. - But I really like doing this portrait's. - And I hope you enjoyed following along for this one. - All right. - Thank you so much. - If you have any questions, - please shoot me a message on the course page or wherever you're watching this. - You can contact me through video school online dot com. - Thanks for watching. - And we'll see you next time. - 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Colorization 3 - Surprise! - Part 1: - Hey, - everyone, - welcome back to another lesson in the photo colorization course. - Today is the third and final practice session, - and it's a really fun photo, - and I suggest you do something similar. - So I am going to be colorizing a photo of me and my girlfriend, - Isabel. - And, - um, - obviously this photo isn't in black and white, - but this is a great practice technique to take a photo that is already in color to make it - black and white and then to cull, - arise it yourself. - And it's great because you can then really, - truly compare, - you know, - the colors and to see if you were able to mash them correctly. - So let's get straight to it. - So I have my photo layer to turn it black and white. - I could just add a new hue saturation adjustment layer and just drop down that saturation - to, - like, - negative 100. - Okay, - so now we're just gonna get straight to it. - So with my red layer, - which I've already set up this project just like they have in the past. - But it's all set up with a pastis. - The Phil is already, - um, - all deleted. - So now I just get to paint. - So let's get in here and start painting. - So we're just gonna brush this red onto all of our skin and now is bell and my skins are - skin tones are relatively similar. - Mind might be a little bit more peach than hers. - Uh, - but we'll have to compare. - So I'm going to try to do this without referencing the, - um, - original image at all until the very end, - and we'll see how close I actually got got the colors, - but, - um, - I'm probably gonna do to not so hot with this one, - but we'll see. - And then what's great to for practices? - Just Teoh. - You know, - now you can use the pick select colors using the photo so I could, - you know, - for our lips, - for example, - or for the background for the Golden Gate Bridge. - I can pick colors that are actually true. - So it's gonna paint all of our skin on. - And that sounded weird, - but I'm just painting over our skin and looking at these, - uh, - this photo. - You can really see how much detail there is in the different colors. - Uh, - I'll pull up the color photo in just a second just to show you, - um, - you know, - in our in our cheeks and in our noses. - And, - you know, - in all of you know, - the glasses, - Isabel's glasses and our fingernails. - There's so much detail that, - um, - is lost or is hard Teoh replicate in colorization ins. - But I'm doing these Colorization is in about 2030 minutes. - You know, - if I wanted Teoh, - I could spend a good, - you know, - a couple of hours on one and really get it as perfect as possible. - So I'm just coloring in our hands right now. - I really hope you have enjoyed this class so far. - Um, - it's a pretty cool hobby. - And, - um, - it's something I picked up relatively recently, - but I really like doing it. - And I hope you enjoy as well I know is bells, - fingernails are going to be, - Ah, - a pink color in this cause I saw in the original photos, - I'm just going over with that red. - So And I'm gonna make sure that, - um, - get all of our in our mouth. - Oops. - There are gums were pain in our gums. - Try not to get our teeth too much, - though. - Okay, - so now let's take this next Pete red, - but more pinkish color. - We're gonna paint over our cheeks and nose is and ears. - So I'm not being perfect right now. - But something like that kid arch cheeks on get our our entire years for this pink. - We do our entire years for the next this pink up here, - we just do parts of our ears. - But for that, - we'll just do all of our years. - Then for this red, - Just, - um, - go over the lips and gums, - zoom in there and get really nice and close. - Actually, - I'm gonna go back. - And with that previous pink, - I'm going to go over our lips is well, - And then I might, - um we'll probably add another layer to our lips later on. - But for now, - this is good. - What's great about this method? - I think I mentioned before, - rather than the selection method of polarization is, - I can go back and change the color of this layer really easily. - All right, - so now I'm gonna take this yellow, - so this yellow is going to go on the left hand parts of our skin. - So for me, - Definitely in my forehead area. - I think this photo was taken, - um, - at a time where we weren't too tanned. - So before we hit the beaches, - that summer looks cloudy up here in San Francisco, - to which it usually is. - Okay, - so for ad, - Definitely for me. - So that's looking pretty good. - And me on our just splash a little bit of that on our hands as well. - Just to add a little bit more detail, - a little more complexity to our skin. - So with the blue, - this is a good example for me. - I have sort of haven't shaved in a while in this photo. - So I'm gonna add this blue toe my upper lip. - I try to not get where my nose was, - though. - Delete that I get my upper lip, - blow my lip where all my hair is, - and then definitely in my eye socket, - uh, - where it's a little bit darker eyelids and wherever there's shadows. - Okay. - Right here. - The creases and is both cheeks under her eyes. - That's pretty good. - Okay, - so now, - like you seen before, - this is the part where we start to look a little bit cartoonish, - but, - um, - it will get better, - I promise. - So now I'm adding this brown, - this first layer of brown to pretty much everything. - Um, - just not not getting my lips this time or any of our either of our lips this time. - Get the get our ears. - All of Isabel's forehand, - everything. - All the skin with this brown. - It's amazing how these, - uh, - these killers ations come together. - You know, - it's slow work at the start. - You might be wondering out how is this gonna turn out? - But in the end, - it actually looks pretty good. - Okay, - so that was that, - Brown. - Now let's take this pink, - and we're gonna drop the brush opacity to, - like, - 20%. - And now for this pink, - I'm just gonna hit my nose and then my outer ear, - your lobe, - and then wherever there's, - um, - creases in the skin. - So where there's creases in their skin, - it looks it's gonna have a little bit more red in it because the blood is kind of flowing - and can see a little bit more through that. - Those creases of the skin, - you're on my neck, - got a couple of creases, - and then I'll go over our fingernails with this this red as well, - really hard to see. - Especially probably in this video compared to even what I'm doing right now. - I can barely see this color being dabbed on with this 20% brush and at 30% opacity. - But if I bring it up the past Yep, - I can see it. - So we'll leave this at, - like, - 40%. - Sen. - Al, - It's with the yellow. - We're gonna go on and paint where, - uh, - our cheeks are now where there's a little bit more fat. - And then also where, - um, - the skin is really close to the bone. - So in our nose or in the cartilage of our ear. - So our inner ear, - we'll make sure we get our cheeks, - and that's looking pretty good. - Okay, - so now with the skin tone, - I'm just going to stick with this, - uh, - starting skin tone for both of us and then maybe change it up a little bit later. - And so this is at 100% capacity, - and as you can see, - it's already looking pretty natural. - I'm gonna have to go over my eyebrows both of our eyebrows again with another darker brown - to match my hair. - But I'll do that once I start doing my hair color so you can see it's coming together. - I think I'll definitely have to change the skin tone a little bit. - It's easier, - you know, - doing this colorization of myself because I look in the mirror every day, - but it's actually looking pretty good. - And I can make myself tan if I want to. - So we're gonna stick with the same skin tone for his ball right here. - But we might switch it up a little bit, - cause I know our skin is a little bit different. - Sometimes we have to see who's more. - Tanner is not okay, - so just coloring it in, - You know, - I'm trying to get around these glasses, - which is a little bit more difficult than some of these other projects I've done. - I haven't actually haven't done one with glasses yet. - Okay, - by now our glasses are brown. - So actually, - getting this brown on the glasses actually is making it look like riel. - I was gonna go over both our lives with this cause it looks a little too blue or something - in this photo. - Let's get our hands. - God, - that I messed up and got a hard brush. - So let me change that. - I'm just hitting control an option and dragging up with my stylist. - That makes my, - um, - the hardness of the brush. - It's harder or softer, - and I'm not too worried about this getting into her sweater right here because her sweater - is actually brown. - So it's just gonna Copeland together, - because all add another brown layer after this. - Okay, - so let's go ahead and zoom out. - And we're looking pretty good, - actually, - Um, - let's just double click this color for the skin tone. - And we can kind of just go, - you know, - drag from here and see different skin tones. - So maybe something a little bit, - um, - less peach or less orange is a little bit better for both of us, - and that's actually looking pretty good. - I'm impressed. - Of course. - Now I'm just gonna bring this colored photo, - actually duplicate this colored photo and bring it up to the top, - and then we can compare. - But first I'm going to with this top skin layer, - I'm going to add that adjustment layer the hue saturation adjustment layer. - Whoops. - And I need to make sure that I check this use previous layer to click, - create clipping mask box. - Then I can increase the saturation or decrease it so Of course, - it looks a little weird right now, - with the background being black and white. - But let's see what it looks like. - Wow, - it's not too bad. - I condemn finitely tell, - though, - that in the actual photo, - there's a lot more reds in my face, - especially and then even on Isabel's nose and cheeks. - There's a lot more red, - and I've actually noticed that. - And I think people have noticed that in my face in particular there there is more red in it - . - So I'm just gonna go ahead and add another layer, - you know, - on red layer just a little bit more red, - and I'll add it to my face. - So fleet off that Phil Slick changed the blending mode too soft light. - And for now, - I'll just, - um, - so this is the original. - So take that off. - So I'm cheating a little bit. - I said I was going to not look at the the original until I was done with the whole picture - . - But I'm gonna change this layers of past 20% and just in my cheeks and then knows, - especially and then for Ed. - We'll add a little bit of red, - so my face, - I guess my skin is a little bit more peachy than Isabelle's. - That might be too much. - I gotta drop down that opacity and then maybe it's not completely my whole face song. - It's gonna delete some of this on the nose. - It's more on the forehead. - So for both of us, - it is more red. - So I'm just going to actually change this. - Choose this, - uh, - skin tone. - I'm just gonna drag us down a little bit. - So in this color picker, - if you just drag this bar down to where it's a little bit more red, - something like that, - that looks a little bit better. - So it's just slight, - slight differences. - But that's pretty good. - Maybe a little bit more orange. - So it's just what I can do is actually just duplicate this layer and then add make one a - little bit more orange than drop the opacity to something like really, - really low. - I think 7% maybe even lower, - 3% barely even noticeable. - But it does a little bit, - so that is, - um, - looking pretty good. - So let's move on to the background where the rest of our our clothes and stuff so and hair - of course, - so I'm just trying. - Teoh, - select out of this. - Um, - get rid of this group. - The cheat sheet. - All right, - so now let's look at our hair. - So let's add a new color brown for my hair. - So my, - ah, - pretty normal. - Typical brown hair a little bit lighter. - Um, - and then make sure I have white selected over here. - Command a delete Delete that, - Phil, - change the, - uh, - the blend mode too soft light. - Then I'm just going to brush in my hair. - I think I'm gonna need in even Ah, - lighter color on this. - This Yeah, - this is definitely a little bit too dark. - So it's just brushing my hair. - I'm not even going to try to brush in Isabel's hair with this layer because I know our hair - is different. - And while I might be able to blend different layers together, - um, - I'm just gonna do a completely new layer for Isabel's hair. - So let's just double click this brown and make it a little Yeah, - something more along the lines of this. - But I can see in the where my skin is, - where my skin meets my hair. - It's blending with that that orange. - And so, - uh, - I'm just going toe, - go into the skin layer and delete some 17. Colorization 3 - Surprise! - Part 1: - something like this make my brush really soft. - Something like that is good. - And I can even go into this 20% brown layer that we use. - I can brush that into my hair because that color might, - you know, - just add a little bit of color to my hair. - Something like that. - I think my this blue layer is actually a little too strong. - So I'm gonna drop that down like 20% and this pink. - It might be a little too strong to drop that down. - 10%. - All right, - so for is balls, - hair. - Let's do a new solid color. - Choose a little bit darker brown, - and then delete that fill. - Command A to select all, - then delete change the blend mode too soft light and then just pee in her hair. - This is really hard because she's got hair that's flying in the wind, - and so I might have to go over those pieces a little bit layer later. - But I can zoom in and get a much as I can if you use a really tiny brash. - Sometimes it looks a little weird because it just looks like this really thin streak. - So for that I'll really have Teoh play with the capacity is playing around like this, - trying to get all over hairs. - And this is where having a stylists and a tablet like my Wacom tablet really comes in handy - compared to trying to do this with a mouse, - that would be really difficult. - Okay, - so trying to get all our hair, - see him out, - make sure I got the all of this, - and I think I need to make it a little bit darker, - less less red or something. - This is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. - It's a little bit lighter, - just got less red. - That's what it is, - something like that. - And we'll go over our eyebrows individually with with these Browns. - Well, - that looks a little to read, - though, - so we might have to add another layer for our eyebrows. - Yeah, - I So we're getting there, - though. - We're getting there. - It's not too bad when you kind of toggle back and forth. - So let's get this, - uh, - leather strap from Isabel's, - um, - from Isabel's purse. - We're just gonna choose like a orangey brown that will be the left leather color. - Okay, - so let's just paint that on might be a little bit brighter than this to, - So I'm just gonna change that color a little bit. - Something like that, - there's good. - Now we're going to add is bells brown? - Uh, - sweatshirt. - So, - as you can see, - it's a little tedious, - but but fun just painting in this brown. - And this is a great picture because then we have we have lots of different colors in the - background compared to before where we were kind of stuck with, - you know, - the greens and the browns. - But here we have a an ocean and golden gate bridge behind us. - One thing that looks kind of a natural right here is our teeth. - Uh, - since they're still black and white for hum the image, - it looks kind of funny. - Almost looks like we have blue teeth. - So unfortunately, - I'm going to have to add a little bit of yellow to our teeth to make it look a little bit - more natural. - So just a really pale, - too saturated yellow try that a soft light is brush in our teeth. - We'll drop the opacity later, - and that's definitely going to make it look a little bit better, - So drop the past. - Use someone like let's try, - uh, - something like 28% looks looks more natural. - Okay, - so we are getting along through this picture. - So now I want toe paint in this ocean, - cause that's kind of what I've been waiting for this whole time. - Now, - the Golden Gate Bridge is gonna be really tough, - but let's do this ocean. - So the ocean is gonna actually be sort of a darker blue, - something a little bit more de saturated as well. - But I'm not exactly sure, - but we can just paint it in. - And then if we want to change it later, - we can change the colors. - It's just peeing in the ocean. - Yeah, - I think it's definitely going to be a little bit darker than this. - This is a little bit too bright blue Zoom in to get these details. - If you've never been to San Francisco, - you definitely should check it out. - This is kind of a famous spot to go view the Golden Gate Bridge from you from San Francisco - , - You across the Golden Gate Bridge and then you exit pretty much as soon as you get off and - there's a viewpoint on the road goes up to this viewpoint, - and it's always packed with tourists and visitors from around the world. - But it's definitely the best spot to get a photo from. - You get the skyline of the city in the background and the whole entire Golden Gate Bridge, - but it's often cloudy up here. - So you got to go on a good day, - even if it's cloudy, - where we live, - or if it's sunny. - And where we live in Berkeley can be cloudy over in the city and often is actually. - So these these wires, - these bars that are holding up the Colon Gate bridge those are gonna be really difficult to - get again, - just showing it goes to show how much detail there is in the world. - So let's just change this blue color just with the color picker picker. - Do something something darker, - like This is better. - I think Anyways, - we can compare it to the original low. - Okay, - so let's go ahead and compare it to the original. - It's actually it is lighter, - surprise, - surprise. - So there's something a little bit more like that, - I guess without the rest of the background, - it looks a little strange, - but right now That looks pretty good. - Okay, - so let's tackle the Golden Gate Bridge, - which actually really isn't gold at all is kind of a reddish orange, - but more of a red. - So let's just try this and we're going. - Teoh, - zoom in and make sure we get as detailed as possible. - Change the layer mode too Soft light. - We're just gonna paint this in now. - I'm not gonna be too perfect to wait and waste your time, - but I might go back and try toe fix this up later and see, - even in this bridge, - there's just so much detail in the way that it was constructed. - So I'm just gonna pain over this. - And of course, - there's, - like, - hundreds of cars going across right now that are different colors. - 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go ahead and send me a email. - I would love Teoh, - share your testimonial on video school online, - And then if you, - uh, - are enjoying this class, - just send me a message, - and I will try to improve the course, - Um, - up to your standards. - I'm always trying to improve my classes, - and I get messages from students that love my classes. - I get messages from students that dislike my classes, - and I'm always trying to improve them. - So whatever you think about it just sent me a message. - I would really appreciate it. - So this a little Golden Gate Bridge situation is proving to be very difficult. - And I think I'm just gonna leave it like that for now. - And I'm gonna try to get those the bars. - Um, - that line. - Just get this over here. - Then we can compare the colors and, - uh, - make adjustments as necessary. - Okay, - so something like this, - this actually isn't even gold. - I think this is just like a brick or something, - but I'm just gonna make it gold for the fun of it. - So let's look at the original image. - Wow, - I wasn't too far off. - It has a little bit of, - like, - a blue tone to it because of, - I think, - the reflection of the ocean and of the sky. - And so I'm actually what I'm going to do is I'm just going toe paint over a really, - really faint blue color over this entire part of the picture, - because, - um, - yeah, - because it seems to need that I was gonna make a really big brush paint over, - change the blend mode too soft light, - and then just make sure it goes over. - It is kind of like it creates that hate. - It's that haziness that the background has and then just drop the opacity even further. - And so, - with this, - um, - bridge layer, - though, - what I'm going to do is just duplicate it and then add another color to it. - So it looks like it has a little bit more of that purple blue itself. - So I'm going to create sort of a purplish blue color, - something like that. - Turn it on and then drop the opacity down to, - like, - yeah, - 25% or something, - and that's looking a little bit more natural. - Okay, - so a few more colors we're going to add for this is some greens for the backgrounds. - So let's just pick a nice dark green color added to the background on the hills in the - distance. - And then in the hills right here behind us, - there is there is some green. - There's some green plans that we need to paint, - and we'll add some browns as well. - I think this is like some green shrubs right here. - I'll just add a little bit on the edge of this mountain. - Just Sprinkle a little bit of green and here for the shrubbery and back here in the - distance is definitely some green. - These hills now back here might be a little bit darker green than the ones right behind us - . - But this is fine for now. - So, - um, - photos actually turning out quite nicely. - And like I said, - this is a great practice method for, - um, - colorization and improving your technique using a photo, - a color photo and turning it black and white. - Because, - as you can see, - you know, - I've made lots of little adjustments using the photo for as reference all these green trees - over here. - Well, - I'm getting some green in Isabel's hair, - so I'm gonna I gotta step backward a little bit. - I move that layer if I'm going too fast. - Um, - you know, - just you can watch this episode again, - Or you can also take my photo shop tools course, - which you can find on video school online. - And I basically go through all the tools on this left hand column, - and it really will help you improve your photo shop skills. - Now, - um, - of course, - with polarization is were basically just using the brush tool. - That's about it. - Yes. - I'm gonna make this a little bit darker green and maybe more yellow. - It's a little bit more brown in it. - Okay, - so now let's add another layer and do our brown stuff in the background. - So just like a brown like this, - delete the film, - change it to soft light and just start painting. - So I'm just gonna paint over this entire hill, - thanks to pretty much everything right here. - I'm just gonna paint over, - and I'll just drop the opacity. - Okay? - Maybe add a little bit of brown over here more some detail and yanks. - Okay, - so let's get through a few more layers, - and then I'll let you go for today. - I want to drop that opacity. - Actually, - some gonna go back to that layer after I add just a little bit lighter. - Beige color will set this up. - All right, - so now I'm gonna go back to this brown, - and I'll drop the opacity. - 78 or so is good. - So with this lighter brown orange color, - it's gonna paint on a little bit. - Change it too soft light. - Um, - and, - uh, - it's a little bit too orangey, - so I'm just gonna make it a little bit more like a little less orange, - more beige, - then just paint on. - So this this hill. - That's closes, - too, - as I'm just gonna paint on this brown right here and same with over on this side of the - Hill. - And then just where there's, - like, - this lighter part of the background, - just paint a little bit on as well. - Let's make this whole side of the cliff a little bit lighter, - a little bit lighter, - brown, - and I'll drop the opacity. - So let's look at the original image just to compare. - Okay, - so it looks like this was actually a little bit darker brown where that is. - And on top, - it's got this reddish brown. - I'm just gonna leave it, - though. - And then I'll add that reddish brown because this is going to be my own interpretation of - this this hill. - Okay, - so just pick a red, - delete that, - Phil, - change it too soft light on. - I'm just gonna paint on the top of this. - This hill where it showed up to be a little bit more red. - This darker ground, - I guess, - is where it was a little bit more red. - Drop the opacity a lot like 20%. - That looks pretty good even up here. - I can add this this brownish red and it's looking pretty good. - Um, - I think I'm going to stop. - For now, - I think you probably had enough. - Uh, - definitely not perfect. - One thing you can do here is actually add a, - uh, - a hue saturation filter for the whole thing. - Just kind of dropped down, - though. - Pastie. - Sometimes that makes it look a little bit more natural. - Um, - the hardest part about this is the background. - Because there's just so much in the background, - you can tell it is green actually should be a little bit more bluish. - Something like that, - actually. - But there's so much detail in the background, - and that's why it makes it so hard. - You know, - all these buildings, - there's millions of colors right here in itself, - then with the thin wires of the Golden Gate Bridge. - So this is definitely a difficult image t get through. - But I'm pretty happy with our skin tones. - And, - um uh, - this hail Andi some of the greens. - So thank you so much for watching. - I hope I didn't bore your ear off. - And I hope this helped you just following along with with what I do. - And I really hope you've enjoyed the lessons in this course in the next section. - You know, - I'm just gonna give you a few more tips about polarization, - how you can stay active and get inspiration. - But for now, - I think this is going to be the last actually practice session for this for this course. - But thank you for watching. - And I hope you've enjoyed this chapter and we'll see you in the next one by 18. Colorization Communities: - Hey, - welcome back to the photo colorization course today. - I just want to talk to you about a colorization community that you should really be a part - of. - Its a reddit community that I have found is great for practicing. - It's great for getting inspiration and just getting advice. - So if you go to Reddit or and search for colorization or reddit dot com slash r slash - polarization, - there's this great community. - You can see people's colorization, - and each week they have a colorization. - Um, - contests is not really a contest where there's necessarily a winner, - but it's just a group colorization where everyone colors at the same picture. - It is really good cause then you can compare what yours looks like to another's. - And it's really cool because you can see the different ways people interpreted the picture - . - You know, - some people think may think someone's shirt is a certain way, - Um, - a certain color and you might have done it completely different. - And as you can see here, - there's lots of different, - um, - qualities. - Obviously, - you know, - this looks like a beginner. - Um, - but then there's some really great ones as well. - So why? - I mean this one looks awesome. - Uh, - Stanley Kubrick photos. - That one's pretty amazing. - So it's really fun to look around and gets, - um, - some, - uh, - some great inspiration. - And look at the detail in this one of the woman's veil over her face and the background man - . - Yeah, - this is awesome. - So join read it. - During the community, - you can post your own stuff here, - and, - um, - start learning and having some more fun. - Okay, - Have a great day, - and we'll see you in the next lesson by 19. 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