Bring old black & white photos to life through color! Learn how to take advantage of Adobe Photoshop’s Colorize Neural Filter to get started with colorizing & complete the look with manual final touches!

Restoring an old image and bringing it back to its former glory is a unique and special experience, and a process which it is easy to lose yourself in as you spend countless hours delving through old family albums and lovingly removing the dust and scratches which aged photos picked up over time. And as part of the process, colorizing black and white photographs is a great way to bring new life to old pictures which need restoring.

I’m Dominic, a photographer, designer and teacher, and I’ve always enjoyed restoring old family photographs and seeing the world as things were many years ago. Recently I got my hands on a collection of photos taken by my late grandfather and his family in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. By restoring these old pictures, I've transformed them from old prints, trapped in old albums, into heirlooms — to be appreciated by all of the family, no matter where they are in the world!

I recently decided to put Adobe Photoshops’s new Neural Filters through their paces, to see how capable they are and how AI can speed-up my workflow when restoring and colorizing old photographs. And in this class, I will be exploring the Colorize Neural Filter in Adobe Photoshop to colorize old black and white photographs.

In this class, you will learn:

tips and best practices for capturing your photographs for effective restoration and colorization;
how to prepare your old digitised photographs or digital black and white photographs for colorization by setting the correct Color Mode, cropping and resizing;
how to get the most out of using the Colorize Neural Filter’s settings to create your desired look;
how to output the filter’s results for a non-destructive colorization workflow;
how to edit and finalize the look of your colorized photographs manually using the Brush and Eyedropper tools to get the best possible results.

This class is beginner-friendly and is designed for everyone who is interested in colorizing old black and white photographs. So whether, like me, you have some family photographs you want to restore and colorize to surprise your family members with, or someone who is excited about working with AI and wants to get some tips for getting started with Adobe Photoshop’s Neural Filters, or a student, photographer or editor who wants to add a new technique to your creative toolkit — this class is for you!

Software:

To follow along with the class you will need the latest Creative Cloud version of Adobe Photoshop (2023 release or newer). You can download a trial version of Adobe Photoshop CC from adobe.com.

I cannot wait to see your colorized photographs!

Related Class:

In this class, we will focus solely on the image colorization process and related techniques. If you would like to learn how to restore your old photographs, don’t hesitate to check out my other class Beginner’s Guide to Retouching Old Photographs in Adobe Photoshop to learn how to get the most out of Adobe Photoshop’s various retouching tools.

Justine Nicole Cuevas

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