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buzzcock · 09-05-2010, 11:24 AM

This is a quick and easy tutorial allowing you to add that bit extra to black and white pictures, hope you enjoy and have fun..............Buzz Thumbsup

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**smgslover** · 09-05-2010, 01:39 PM

I'm sure everyone will find this tutorial useful buzz! Thumbsup

Echo · 09-05-2010, 03:37 PM

Thanks for the add Buzz :thanks:

Here's some additional info you guys may also find useful.

Here's a pic of Fearne Cotton in colour with a green tattoo on her wrist that could be made to stand out:

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Instead of using desaturation, you can also render an image monochrome by using the Black & White Adjustment (layer) from Image>Adjustment>Black & White (or create the relevant adjustment layer). This gives you a box with colour sliders that allow you to alter each colour's influence on the final output:

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By checking the tint box at the bottom you can colour it as well:

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I played about a bit here, duplicating the layer and setting it to Soft Light blending and dropping the opacity. I then added a Black and White adjustment layer with a slight brown tint and then masked out the fern on her wrist, plus I added a Hue/Saturation layer to modify the fern and make the green a little more vivid. Finally I added a Curves adjustment layer to tweak the overall look. Decided after that I wanted to soften the pic a bit, so I made a merged copy of the layers (Shft+Ctrl+Alt+E) and applyed a 2px Gaussian Blur. Then Faded (Shift+Ctrl+F) the blur with the fade set to Soft Light at ~70%.

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Additionally you could try a third party colouring plugin such as Colormancer's Tint which will give you more freedom to experiment:
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I'm not 100% but I think Colormancer works with Gimp as well.

If you download and install it, you can access it through the Filter menu. I accidentally used it with an adjustment layer selected and my PS crashed so be aware of that though!

wndmkr · 09-05-2010, 09:41 PM

Tips are always welcome :thanks:

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