How to Put Colors in Your PhotographWritten by Paul Hood
Wouldn’t it be nice to see your black and white photos in full color? Learning to create and edit old photos is fairly easy and very worthwhile. Digitally restored photos can be used to make digital scrapbooks, posted to Web sites, shared through email, and printed for gift-giving or display.To achieve this effect, we will need to colorize using Paint Shop Pro. According to Bill Brewer, “colorizing is a feature built into PSP that keeps luminance values (the bright and dark parts that make up recognizable image) and colors image with one color. The image to be colorized needs to have a color depth of 16.7 million colors, and it can be in full color to start with (reduction to grayscale is not required before colorizing). Using that command brings up a dialog box where you have control over hue and saturation, with a preview. I suggest you DON'T use that menu item to colorize images. Instead use more powerful HSL adjustments accessed with Colors>Adjust>Hue/Saturation/Lightness... command. That way, you have complete control over hue/saturation/lightness, and color preview is much better than what you get with Colorize.” To start off, get your photo ready. Begin by scanning your black and white photo into your PC. Make sure that your picture is straight and if not, use Paint Shop Pro’s Straighten tool to “uncrook” image. Next then would be running One Step Photo Fix by clicking Enhance Photo button in Photo toolbar atop screen and choose One Step Photo Fix. Try to clean up whatever dirt or scratch that you may see in picture. Now, moving on to next part. Working in layers. Choose Layers, Duplicate tab to make a duplicate of image you want to colorize. We can now make color changes to top layer without affecting original image underneath, letting us adjust intensity of colorization by playing with layer's opacity.
| | Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One: A ReviewWritten by Paul Hood
As title implies, Deke McClelland gives reader a one-on-one approach to wonders of Adobe Photoshop CS. The book provides a comprehensive walkthrough of features of Photoshop in a classroom setting where reader is lone student and McClelland teacher. Deke McClelland is an Adobe Certified Expert and a member of PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team. He was inducted into National Association of Photoshop Professionals' Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2002. This full-color book includes two hours of video tutorials in CD. It features a step by step presentation of real-world projects that are sure to help reader gain proficiency with Photoshop. The reader is give a rich amount of graphics theory, best practices, and tips for avoiding Photoshop disasters. McClelland’s approach to learning Photoshop bridges gap among available literature on subject and provides a unique educational experience. The book is created with intention of making seemingly monumental task of mastering Photoshop look like a walk in park. Inside are twelve lessons, each made up of three to six exercises, illustrated with more than 600 photos, diagrams, and screen shots. Each book-based lesson comes with a corresponding video lesson, included on a companion CD. The exercises are project-based, culminating in real-world projects that readers can show off when they've finished.
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