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How to take a black and white photo online. Converting a black and white photo to color (5 lessons)

Hi all! As usual, I am with you, Dmitry Kostin. And today we will photoshop again. Remember how we did? Be that as it may, this is not surprising, since it is not at all difficult to desaturate the image. But how to turn a black and white photo into color? Is that possible?

Of course available. Already, even entire films are being colored. Why make some image color? But it's still very interesting experience. Can you imagine? You can come up with the colors you would like to see in this photo. For example, you can set the color of your eyes, hair, skin, clothes and much more. This is how I colored old photographs. It turned out funny)

Let me not make long introductions. Let's start coloring right away. Open any b/w photo (I chose a photo I found on the Internet).

Just look at what mode the photo is in. It's just possible that it was saved in the format "Grayscale", then you simply won’t be able to work with color.

Change the color mode to RGB. To do this, go to the top menu and select “Image” - “Mode”. Well, if it’s not RSL, then install it.

Let's look at the first method, namely the one familiar to you.


Blending Options

Here is another fairly effective trick for coloring photos. The main thing here is to create a separate layer for each element. I took new photo for these needs.


By the way, this was the very first method that I learned about. When I found out about it, I liked it so much that I colored a lot of photos).

Layer mask

Well, the last method of transformation for today is using a layer mask. Let's get straight to the point.


Well, in the end you get a beautiful color photograph and it looks completely different. Oh, but of course I messed up a little. But you can always correct this.

I will never cease to be amazed at the power of Photoshop. Indeed, in many cases, the same problem can be solved in several ways, and you yourself can choose the method that suits you best. By the way, which method do you like best? Or do you have your own way of turning a black and white photo into color in Photoshop, which I did not describe here? Please write in the comments.

If you want to as soon as possible to explore the possibilities of Photoshop and learn how to work with it, I strongly recommend that you take a look excellent video course. Everything is described in detail, everything is told in human language and laid out on the shelves. The material is easily absorbed. So I recommend it.

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Best regards, Dmitry Kostin.

There are many ways to convert a color image to black and white in Photoshop.

Now we will show you the 4 most popular methods.

Open your photo in Photoshop.

Let's start by introducing you to the two easiest ways to convert an image to black and white.

1 - function Grayscale(Grayscale)

2 - function Discolor(Desaturation)

We don't argue, these are the most simple ways, but the quality is not the best. Here the contrast is very low, the image is slightly cloudy.

Let's show with an example:

1. Grayscale

Image - Mode - Grayscale(Image - Mode - Grayscale)

Very simple, right?

2. Discolor

Image - Correction - Desaturate(Image - Adjustments - Desaturate)

Fast and easy - but the image contrast is very low, the image looks dull and flat. This is not at all what we are striving for. What we especially like about high quality b&w Photography is all about depth and high contrast. Okay - it's time to introduce you to more serious methods!

3. Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer

The method we are going to tell you about is to use several adjustment layers. Hue/Saturation. This means that you can return to its original appearance at any time. Plus, you are NOT changing the original image. Now go to the menu Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Hue/Saturation(Layers - New Adjustment layer - Hue/Saturation).

Leave all layer properties unchanged. Change the layer blending mode to Regular(Normal) on Chroma(Color).

Then add another adjustment layer Hue/Saturation(Hue/Saturation) - but this time in the layer properties, move the slider Saturation(Saturation) to -100.

So, get ready... This is what the image looks like now:

Now the fun begins! Double click on the first adjustment layer you made, or just open the properties. And now the slider Color tone(Hue) move to this position until you are satisfied with the resulting effect. You can also work with Saturation ( Saturation ) .

These are the settings we used to get the image you see below. Now it looks much better, although it still seems like something is missing...

Now change the blending mode of this newly created layer to Chroma(Color) on Overlap(Overlay), and reduce it a little Opacity(Opacity), in our case up to 65%.

This is what happened now. Contrast has increased noticeably. No detail is lost, adding depth to the image.

Please note that each image requires an individual approach. What suits this image may not suit yours. So don't be afraid to experiment with settings, layers and modes yourself :)

4. Channel mixing

The last technique you'll learn about in this tutorial is using an adjustment layer. Mixingchannels(Channel Mixer). With the original image active, go to the menu Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Channel Mixing(Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Channel mixer).

When this window appears, check the box next to the function Monochrome(Monochrome).

Now select the shades of black and white simply by moving the sliders that correspond to the red, green, and blue colors of the image. Important: try to total quantity The values ​​were around 100 to avoid blurry areas in your image. We set the red and green channels to 0 and the blue to 100. This gives the skin intense black and white tones.

Final step: duplicate the adjustment layer. Then change the blending mode from Regular(Normal) on Overlap(Overlay) and reduce Opacity(Opacity), for example, for this image it turned out to be 44% - but often it is necessary to lower it to 20-30%. Look, below is the result of our labors.

It turned out to be a very atmospheric image. We are waiting for your impressions. We hope this article gave you a lot of useful information.

See you in the new lesson!

HOW TO MAKE A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO COLOR IN PHOTOSHOP

Today we will learn how to turn a non-color photograph into a color one. I’ll make a reservation right away for those who are looking for the “make a photo in color” button in this article. Alas, such a button has not yet been invented. You can desaturate a photo with one click, but you won’t be able to color it with the same click, because it’s black white photography has no color information. So we’ll have to work with our hands and fill our black and white image with color information in the most literal sense. Some plugins for Photoshop do a good job of colorizing photos, but we won’t discuss any plugins that we don’t know where to get from. Let's talk about what is available for colorization in Photoshop itself. And there is a lot in it.

The method of coloring a photograph is simple and primitive. A five-year-old child can master it in 10 minutes. I will tell you about all the ways to colorize a photograph, and also show how this simple operation can be taken to a new, more professional level. So let's get started.

THE EASIEST WAY TO MAKE A PHOTO Blend Color

To colorize a photo you will need to know how to use the tool. Brush Tool, as well as have an idea of ​​how other Photoshop tools work. The ability to select areas of a photo and basic knowledge about layers and masks, which you can glean from my article Masks in Photoshop, will not hurt. In this lesson you will see in practice how you can automate work in Photoshop using masks, and have full control to color settings.

I borrowed a photo from the collection of a photographer friend of mine. Black and white photographs look mysterious and conceptual, but what happens if we color it a little? Create a new layer on top of the photo Layer > New > Layer or click on the small layer icon in the layers palette Windows > Layers

Now select a tool Brush Tool, a soft-edged brush, make it larger and drag the mouse over the new layer with some red color. The natural result is a red smear on a skillfully taken photograph. This doesn't suit us. In order for the red color to color, you need to change the settings of the layer itself. These settings are called overlay settings Color Mode. You can find them only in the layers palette Layers, above the layers themselves. Click on this drop-down menu, you will see a whole list of different blend modes. The point is that by changing the color blending mode, we establish new rules by which the layer's color interacts with the colors of the layers below. The blending mode we need is called Color, and its meaning is simple - it colors the image in the color we need, while maintaining the naturalness of the colors. Install let's decide Color, choose the color you need and color the girl’s hair.

That's all. Quite simple isn't it? Spare me the trouble of stretching out this process over 10 pages and demonstrating how I paint the skin, gloves, eyes, and so on, step by step. The coloring depends on your imagination, and the realism depends on the quality of work and the naturalness of the selected colors. Work with the brush, select the size, adjust the opacity and fill parameters, which you will find in the brush settings menu Windows > Options

This is the “mask” my wife sketched for a few minutes of work. Note that the layer blending mode is Normal. I hope you are convinced that making a color photo in Photoshop is very simple.

And this is what happens if you change the layer blending settings to Color.

COLORING A PHOTO VIA LAYER STYLES

Now let's start going deeper and complicating the process. Complication is not meant to make the work more difficult, but to make the work easier. You know, all this Kali Mali on one layer is of course wonderful, but it’s more suitable for creative individuals, those who like to sit and wind for hours clay pot on a gurney. Spreading one color and another on this layer is perhaps convenient for artists from the academy who were banned from Google, which is why they still have not heard about Photoshop. Alas, even cartoons are drawn on a computer; 1000 drawings on paper, which are then quickly flipped through, remain in the 20th century. Personally, as a designer, I would like to have more control over color and settings. I would like to effectively and quickly tweak colors through the menu, rather than redraw the layer.

How could we bring more control over the image? To begin with, it would be nice to divide one layer into several layers. Let's create
There really are a lot of layers. And each layer will be responsible for its own area. Create a layer "hair", layer "eyes", "gloves", "nails" and others. I started coloring the photo myself, creating thematic layers for this. Now the control process is more manageable, at least the coloring is not on one layer. Any part of the coloring can be muted, turned off, in other words, you can do with it everything that can be done with a layer. Other layers with coloring will remain untouched.

But none of this still makes much sense. The color of all layers is still arbitrary. On layer "Hair" You can still draw with both blue and red. In other words, still Kali Mali, but more manageable Kali Mali, divided into sectors. And I would like to control the color too. I want to change the entire color with one click, and not sculpt with a brush and constantly redo the result with my hands. I'll show you how to do this using layer styles. layer style.

Create a layer and name it "Hair". Dye your hair any color, even green. Go to the layers palette and set the fill Fill on 0% Thus, what you drew will become invisible.

Roughly speaking, we create a kind of raster area, turn off the fill fill and apply layer styles to the area. The area itself does not become invisible, as is the case with Opasity. The content of the area becomes invisible, but not the area itself. Therefore, the applied layer styles will be visible. But if we set the Opasity to 0%, the entire layer along with the styles would become invisible. We'll give the area a specific style, but since we'll still have to apply layer blending to paint, original color must be removed by setting Fill to 0%, otherwise when mixing it will become visible and we will not get the desired result.

Now let's create a style for the layer Layer > Layer Style > Color Overlay In the mixing menu Blend mode set the mode Color. And in the color box, set the color we need.

If you forgot to set the fill to 0%, you can do this in the same window, in the blending settings tab Blending Options. If you did this in the layers palette Layers, then the fill will already be installed as needed.

Now we have full control over color. Give each layer a different style. Double-clicking on the layer will automatically bring up Layer Styles, where you can change the hair color with one click. You don’t have to smear everything 100 times, the color changes in one second, and you see the result online. Choosing a color has become much easier.

This is what I call color control. Now let's go even deeper.

COLORING PHOTOS THROUGH FILL LAYERS (fill lyers)

You know what I think. These efforts to control the image are certainly cool, but somehow difficult. What if you need to change the color? You have to constantly click on the layer, bring up the styles window, go to the tab Color Overlay and change something there. Not such a fast process if you want to quickly change the colors of the layers. Of course, if we have 2 layers it’s not difficult, but what if we had 102 layers? We need to make this process even easier. This is where it begins real work with layers. Now I'll show you how to color a photo using fill layers.

Create a new fill layer Layers > New Fill Layers > Solid Color The fill layer completely covers the photo, filling the entire working surface. We just don't need this. As you can see from the Layers palette, the fill layer is created with a ready-made empty mask. We need to turn the white mask into a black mask to hide the entire fill layer. You can click on the mask icon and select Delete.

Or select the mask icon and do the same from the menu Layer > Layer Mask > Delete. Now create a mask from scratch, but not an empty one, but a hiding one. We did this in my article "Masks in Photoshop". Select Layer > Layer Mask > Hide All

Or you can go another way. The mask is the same working surface as the layer itself. The mask can be drawn manually using any drawing tools. For example, with a brush Brush Tool. Only unlike the layer, the mask is created in a gradation from black to white, where white is visible part, and black is the hiding part. Click on the mask icon in the layer palette. The mask must be selected so that you can draw on it. Then select the fill bucket Paint Bucket Toll and black color. Click on work surface. An empty mask has become a hiding mask.

Now select a regular brush Brush Tool And White color. Create a hair mask by drawing on top of the mask exactly as you
would draw on a layer. You can enjoy all the benefits of brush settings. Make it transparent, change sizes, soft edges. All this will only affect how visible our mask is. And of course, don't forget to set the layer's blending mode to Color, so that you can immediately see the result of painting. We could have gone a different way. For example, leave the mask white and paint the entire area around the hair black. But you must admit, it is somewhat tedious to cover up 70% work area. And of course, don’t forget to work on a mask, the mask must be selected. This can be done by simply clicking on its icon in the layers palette.

As a result, you should have a fill layer with a hair mask. The advantage of this method is that you don’t need to delve into color settings every time, which are unclear where. One simple click on the layer fill brings up a window with a color choice.

Paint other areas of the photo in the same way. In some areas where the color doesn't lend itself to soft transitions, you'll need to create highlight areas. For example, in the case of nails, I created selections with the tool Magic Wand Tool And Polygonal Lasso Toll. Otherwise, I made do with changing brush sizes and switching between soft edges and hard edges.

Once you've created all the photo area layers, you can create other tint layers that create hair tones, shimmers, and more. lighting effects. This is a professional result. Now let's look at alternative options coloring photographs.

MAKE A PHOTO COLOR THROUGH ADJUSTMENTS LAYERS

Here's another way to make a photo in color. Let's use the color correction settings adjustments. I can already imagine how you open familiar ones to everyone Image > Adjustments, select an area and apply effects. No, we certainly won’t do that. We will get the same kala malya. Of course, selecting an area, applying color correction, selecting a new area, applying color correction again is an option. Only this option is dull, without any opportunity to tweak and change the results.

Therefore, we will use color correction layers Layer > New Adjustment Layer. A color correction layer is the same color correction, only it is not applied to the graphics layer, but is itself a layer. Imagine that the photo is our layer. And on top we put red glass, which changed the color of the photo. The red glass is the color-correcting layer. You can remove it, make it invisible, apply layers, a mask and more.

Which color corrections are suitable for coloring? In my opinion, color correction is the best option. Photo Filter. Select Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Photo Filter Or create a color adjustment layer through the Layers palette menu Layers.

Now I want you to do everything that I described for coloring photographs through fill layers. Create a mask, fill it with black and use a regular brush to apply the filter to the area you need. This is what you should get:

At the same time, you can reconfigure the filter color, change the color and adjust the mask at any time. Just click on the color correction layer and in the palette Adjustments customize the color. If you don’t know where this palette is located, call it through Windows > Ajustments. You will see for yourself that using color correction to make a photo color is as easy as using fill layers, but I personally prefer the latter.

I hope there is no need to demonstrate step-by-step coloring. You already understand that you need to color all areas of the photo in a similar way. I will give you the final version of the photo colorization and wish you successful experiments in Photoshop. Now you know how to make a photo in color.

For more than a century, monochrome photography has been dominant. Until now, black and white shades are popular among professionals and amateur photographers. In order to make a color picture decolorized, it is necessary to remove information about natural colors. The popular online services presented in our article can cope with this task.

The big advantage of such sites over software is ease of use. In most cases, they are not suitable for professional purposes, but they will be relevant for solving the task at hand.

Method 1: IMGonline

IMGOnline is an online service for editing images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats. When saving a processed image, you can select the quality and file extension. Is the simplest and in a fast way applying a black and white effect to a photo.


Method 2: Croper

Online photo editor with support for many effects and operations for image processing. Very convenient when using the same tools repeatedly, which are automatically displayed in the panel quick access.

  1. Open the tab "Files", then click on the item "Load from disk".
  2. Click "Choose File" on the page that appears.
  3. Select the picture to be processed and confirm with the button "Open".
  4. Send the image to the service by clicking "Download".
  5. Open the tab "Operations", then move the cursor to the item "Edit" and select an effect "Translate to b/w".
  6. After the previous action, the tool you are using will appear in the quick access panel at the top. Click on it to apply.
  7. If the effect is successfully applied to the image, it will appear in black and white in the preview window. It looks something like this:

  8. Open menu "Files" and press "Save to disk".
  9. Upload the finished image using the button "Download file".
  10. Once this process is complete, a new checkbox will appear in the quick downloads panel:

Method 3: Photoshop Online

A more advanced version of the photo editor, equipped with the basic functions of the program. Among them, there is the possibility of detailed adjustment of color tones, brightness, contrast, and so on. You can also work with files uploaded to the cloud or social networks, for example.

  1. IN small window in the center of the main page, select "Upload image from computer".
  2. Select the file on disk and click "Open".
  3. Open a menu item "Correction" and click on the effect "Bleaching".
  4. If you successfully use the tool, your image will acquire black and white shades:

  5. On top panel select "File", then click "Save".
  6. Set the parameters you need: file name, format, quality, then click "Yes" at the bottom of the window.
  7. Start downloading by clicking the button "Save".

Method 4: Holla

A modern popular online service for image processing, with support for Pixlr and photo editors. In this method, the second option will be considered, since it is considered the most convenient. The site's arsenal includes more than a dozen free useful effects.

  1. Click "Choose File" on home page service.
  2. Click on the image to process it, and then on the button "Open".
  3. Click the item "Download".
  4. Choose from the presented photo editor "Aviary".
  5. In the toolbar, click on the tile that says "Effects".
  6. Scroll to the bottom of the list to find the right one using the right arrow.
  7. Select an effect "B&W" by clicking on it with the left mouse button.
  8. If everything went well, your photo will appear in black and white in the preview window:

  9. Confirm the application of the effect using the item "OK".
  10. Finish the image by clicking "Ready".
  11. Click "Download image".

Method 5: Editor.Pho.to

A photo editor that is capable of performing many image processing operations online. The only site on which you can adjust the intensity of the selected effect. Able to interact with cloud service, social networks Facebook,

Hello, dear readers of my site! Today I will tell you how I add color to b/w photographs.

This method is not new and not mine. I once watched it on YouTube, now I’ll try to repeat it. In the process of carrying out a campaign, sometimes I am asked to add color to old black and white photographs. This was the reason to write this article on converting b/w images to color.

How to make a color photo from a black and white photo in Photoshop

1. First we need an original photo. I took the photo from the article "". Here she is:

2. Since old photographs are often digitized using a conventional scanner, they acquire a greenish or bluish tint. Therefore, we convert the photo to black and white using Photoshop, or rather to shades of gray. This is done in several ways, but for this method it is better to do it as follows. Press the key combination Ctrl+U and drag the slider to the very beginning, as in the screenshot below:

As a result, my photo changed a little:

That's it, now we can quickly and easily turn any photo into black and white in Photoshop.

And we give it a flesh color, since I usually start by painting the skin of the face, arms, legs, etc. Initially I choose a color with a code #ffcc99:

Give it a Color blending mode (“Color” in the Russian version of Photoshop). If anyone is interested in doing this mode, then enter “Color blend mode” into a Google search. The first couple of articles give a comprehensive answer. In Photoshop it is at the very bottom:

4. Now select the brush and the color white and paint over the areas to which we need to give color. At the same time, if you made a mistake and painted over the excess, then change the brush color to black and correct it. As a result, I gave the skin color as follows:

In a new layer, change the flesh color to the one we will use to color the hair and add color to the hairstyle:

6. Now, step by step, we create layers and add color to all the objects in the photo. I only colored the bride, since there are a lot of details in the photo, when I have time I’ll color everything and update the article, but now we’re making a color portrait from a black and white portrait of the bride. Painting lips:

7. To make the eyes more expressive, I simply created a new layer by pressing the keys Shift+Ctrl+N. Selected the Brush tool and gave it a color close to black (code #161616 ) and lined the eyelashes, eyebrows and tinted the fountain pen (actually it’s a ballpoint pen or a gel pen, I don’t remember). As a result, I ended up with this photo and the following layers:

8. For comparison, I’m posting the result of how I made it from black and white photography color using Photoshop:

Original black and white photograph

Ultimate color photography

If you have any questions about how to add color to a b/w photo, ask them in the comments or through the feedback tab.