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Photoshop Tutorial: 0 Er/new/0 Er. Click "Set Foreground Color" at Bottom of Tools P El and Select Color For

This Photoshop tutorial provides instructions for coloring photos in 3 sentences or less: The tutorial explains how to scan a photo at 300 dpi, restore it, and then create new layers to select and fill colors for details like skin and eyes using tools like the Paint Bucket and Brush tools. Masks are used to selectively apply color to specific areas, and opacity and blending modes can be adjusted for each layer. The tutorial concludes by advising the user to adjust the brightness and contrast of the final colored photo.

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Photoshop Tutorial: 0 Er/new/0 Er. Click "Set Foreground Color" at Bottom of Tools P El and Select Color For

This Photoshop tutorial provides instructions for coloring photos in 3 sentences or less: The tutorial explains how to scan a photo at 300 dpi, restore it, and then create new layers to select and fill colors for details like skin and eyes using tools like the Paint Bucket and Brush tools. Masks are used to selectively apply color to specific areas, and opacity and blending modes can be adjusted for each layer. The tutorial concludes by advising the user to adjust the brightness and contrast of the final colored photo.

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Photoshop tutorial

The most complex at colouring of photos - to select correct colors and color hues for each detail
of photo. Especially it is important for skin and eyes, they should look naturally. There are a
many methods of photo colouring. The simplified scheme of one of variants is offered below in
our free tutorial.

3  Scan photo in resolution at least 300 dpi, save it as TIFF.

3 Restore it as we wrote in restoration tutorial.

After step 2. Restored photo.

3 Click "Create a new layer" at bottom of window 0 ers or choose menu item
0 er/New/0 er. Click "Set foreground color" at bottom of Tools P el and select color for
skin in palette. Click "Paint Bucket Tool" and fill layer.

3 Select created layer and set "Color" blending mode (on top of Layers window). You can
vary blending mode of layers for best effect.

3 created layer and click "Add Layer Mask" (at bottom of Layers window).
After step 5. Add l er m sk.

3 Set black foreground color, click "Paint Bucket Tool" and fill layer mask.

3 Set white foreground color, select "Brush Tool" and paint the skin area over on the mask.

3 Select needed opacity for layer of skin.

After step 8. Colouri ski re .

3 In the same way select and colour all other details. If detail which you want to colour is
whole-coloured you can create a mask differently: at first choose the "Magic Wand Tool", select
needed tolerance and click into area of detail, then click "Add layer mask", then finish off by a
brush.

After step 9. Coloured photo.

3  Now you can make final touch - adjust brightness and contrast of a photo in the menu
¦m e/Adjustmets/Brihtess d Cotr st. Photo is ready.
After step 10. Adjustmet of brihtess/cotr st for colored photo.

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