Digital Photography and Imaging - Exercise Week 6

 Week 6

On this week, we were first given the theme for project 2b and gave us an overview of how we will be doing this project. Then we moved on to our exercise for the week which is recoloring black and white pictures. Basically, we were given a black and white picture and we are to give it color by using the brush tool on photoshop. 

Exercise

This is the black and white picture given to us to give it color.

Figure 1.0 - Black and White Picture - 04/05/2021

The first step wash to make a new layer and on that layer, select the brush tool and select the color that I want and brush over the parts where you want that particular color. In this case, it was the skin.

Figure 1.1 -Brush Tool - 04/05/2021

Then I colored the hair using the brush tool (again, in a new layer). It really helps if you use different names for the specific layers. I colored the hair purple and the clothes a darker purple.

Figure 1.2 -Brush Tool - 04/05/2021

The last part was to use the quick selection tool on a new layer and selecting the background. But first you Need to give the background a color. After this you mask the layer and you can choose which effect looks natural on the background. In my case I used a really light green color and I just lowered the opacity of that color. 

Figure 1.3 -Background - 04/05/2021

This ia the final image that I created for this week's exercise.

Figure 1.4 - Recoloring Black and White - 04/05/2021

Feedback

Reflection

I was pretty amused about this week's exercise. There is so much you can do with photoshop. I liked that the effects brought the black and white picture to life.