Colorize Icons
Advanced users maybe? Just gotta know your stuff.
Go from:
To:
In a matter of...well, time.
Go from:
To:
In a matter of...well, time.
If it's colored, desaturate it.
Crop, resize...etc.
Select the area you're colorizing, you might want to feather it if you think it's needed.
Now, having knowledge of what colors to mix with what is critical for this project.
For example, blue and red make purple, and depending on the darkness you'd play with the RGB option...in curves.
You have to know your way around curves cause it's what we'll be using the most for our colorization.
I'm not goin' step by step here on what I've done to Keira, because every photo is different...for example; your photo might be that of a landscape, unlike the one I'm using...a portrait.
I will let you in on a few things I've done, just so you catch the drift of how to do colorizations with curves.
Knightley has fair skin, after selecting the skin:
I set my curves layer to:
RED: I=99 O=144
GREEN: I=118 O=134
BLUE: I=175 O=155
And I came out with:
See? Simple as pie.
(I also secretly added a new hue/sat/light layer, sat: -22)
So I continued on, blah blah...lips, eyes, added a wee bit of make-up, I threw in some saturation and lightness layers, some variations, and...
Now, I had a few problems with feathering (forgot to) so some edges came out sharp:
I did a few things to it, I traced a bit of black as 'liner' and smudged it on brush size '3' (time consuming, but that shouldn't matter) I smudged in the direction of the eye lashes so it looks natural, then I took the blurring tool on size '3' as well, or '5' and I blurred a bit as well, so that it came out like:
I did the same trick to the other as well:
So yeah, simple...let's see YOU get on with it now. =]
This may also be used to colorize desaturated photos for your icons.
Crop, resize...etc.
Select the area you're colorizing, you might want to feather it if you think it's needed.
Now, having knowledge of what colors to mix with what is critical for this project.
For example, blue and red make purple, and depending on the darkness you'd play with the RGB option...in curves.
You have to know your way around curves cause it's what we'll be using the most for our colorization.
I'm not goin' step by step here on what I've done to Keira, because every photo is different...for example; your photo might be that of a landscape, unlike the one I'm using...a portrait.
I will let you in on a few things I've done, just so you catch the drift of how to do colorizations with curves.
Knightley has fair skin, after selecting the skin:
I set my curves layer to:
RED: I=99 O=144
GREEN: I=118 O=134
BLUE: I=175 O=155
And I came out with:
See? Simple as pie.
(I also secretly added a new hue/sat/light layer, sat: -22)
So I continued on, blah blah...lips, eyes, added a wee bit of make-up, I threw in some saturation and lightness layers, some variations, and...
Now, I had a few problems with feathering (forgot to) so some edges came out sharp:
I did a few things to it, I traced a bit of black as 'liner' and smudged it on brush size '3' (time consuming, but that shouldn't matter) I smudged in the direction of the eye lashes so it looks natural, then I took the blurring tool on size '3' as well, or '5' and I blurred a bit as well, so that it came out like:
I did the same trick to the other as well:
So yeah, simple...let's see YOU get on with it now. =]
This may also be used to colorize desaturated photos for your icons.