February 2009

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How to Colorize an Old Black & White Photograph

Photography

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to colorize a black and white photo into the above image. Here I have a photograph of my grandmother taken when she was 16. It has a sepia cast which I’ll need to get rid of to do a proper colorization of this photo: The first thing I’ll [...]

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Creating a Glamorous Girl

Photography

Above, I have a photo of a model that I had taken in Amherst, MA. This shot is straight out of the camera and needs some work. The first thing I’m going to do is go into the color balance to correct her skin color: When the Color Balance dialog box opens up I’ll put [...]

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Surrealism – Bringing Fruit to Life

Photography

Above is the result of this tutorial. Here I have a photo of a red pepper. I think it needs a little life. I’ll take it and drop it into Photoshop: What I need to do is get a photo of eyes and a photo of a mouth. Here I have a photo of eyes [...]

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Changing Eye Color Using Photoshop

Photography

Above, I have a photo of an eye. It’s a pretty green eye, but for this tutorial I’ll be changing it to blue. The first thing I’ll do is hit CTRL-J on my keyboard to make a duplicate layer of the eye. This will allow me to have more control later on. I’ll name “Layer [...]

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How to Replace a Color Using the Brush Tool in Photoshop

Photography

The above pink daisy didn’t start out that way. Here I have a photo of a yellow daisy. Let say, I want to make this daisy pink. There are a lot of ways to do this. For this tutorial I’m going to use the brush tool from the tool box in Photoshop: The first thing [...]

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