The new colorize filter in Photoshop allows you to quickly add color to a back and white photos.
In this video, I'll show you how the filter works and how you
can enhance the results by adding your own colors.
I'll be using this photo that I downloaded
from the Library of Congress, if you want to follow along with this,
check out the link in the description.
But you can use any black and white image that you like.
As you can see, it's a photo of these young ladies playing soccer
And I thought it would be a great image to try out this new feature
To try the automated colorize feature,
You need to be in the RGB color mode.
So make sure that you go into Image
and switch Grayscale into RGB.
Then go into Filter > Neural Filters.
From here, you can click on the beta filters
and make sure that you select, Colorize and enable that.
Photoshop will then use artificial intelligence to colorize the image.
And for just one click, this is actually a really good result.
Notice that you have different controls like the Color Balance between the primary
colors and you can adjust your controls accordingly if need be.
For example, we can make the image more Cyan or more overall Red.
In this case, the default settings were
great, but we can also make adjustments to the colors in different areas.
For example, if we wanted the grass to be a little greener,
you can click on the Swatch and from the Color Picker,
select a green that you would like and then click over the image
and Photoshop will apply that color on the grass.
I think this might be a little too
saturated so we can go back into the Color Picker and maybe desaturate that green
a bit and Photoshop will make that adjustment.
You can duplicate one of these points by holding Alt on Windows,
Option on the Mac and click-and-drag it over to drop it in a new location.
And Photoshop will colorize that new location.
You can delete one of these points by selecting it and clicking on the minus icon
so you can go around and colorized different areas of your image.
In this case, I'm actually quite happy with the default settings,
so I will also remove the second color swatch and I'll go into the output settings
and make sure that I just duplicate the layer and press OK
Photoshop will then duplicate the layer and apply a color version of that layer.
And the reason that I did that was so that I can have a layer with no transparency.
Usually, if you select a new layer,
you'll have transparent pixels and I don't want that.
And what I'm going to do now is rename
this layer and call it Colorize, because this is the colorized layer
and I'm going to change the Blending Mode from Normal to Color.
So this is Color and this is Normal.
It's almost the same.
It's not exactly the same,
but for our purposes it makes no difference.
Color takes the hue and saturation of the current layer and the luminosity
of the layer below in this colorize layer will be our starting point.
And it's saving us some time because we're not starting from zero.
We're simply just going to add to this effect and keep in mind that the original
black and white layer is controlling the brightness of the image.
And if you need to adjust the brightness, you can use an Adjustment Layer like
the Levels Adjustment Layer make sure that you clip it to the layer below
and adjust the brightness and notice how the colors do not change.
Everything that you brought in from the colorized layer is still there.
You're only adjusting the brightness.
Also setting the layer to the Color Blending Mode
helps when you're retouching the image.
Before I show you what I mean by that, I'll select the Crop tool
and crop these black areas out like so then select your black and white image
and go into the Toolbar and select the Patch tool
from the Options bar,
Make sure that you have Patch set to Normal and that Source is selected.
Then, you can click-and-drag on one
of these scratches and drag it over to another area and Photoshop will
automatically match the texture from the source area and remove the scratches.
and you can do the same for the one on the other side.
And the reason that I can make these adjustments on the black and white layer
is because I'm using the Color Blending Mode on the colorized layer
So this Colorized is only applying
the hue and saturation and letting the black and white layer control the brightness.
Next, I'm going to press Ctrl D (Windows) or Command D (macOS) to deselect
and I'm going to show you how to bring in new colors.
There's a lot of ways of colorizing images in Photoshop, but one of the methods
that I prefer is by using a Solid Color adjustment layer
you can select whatever color that you want
press OK and change the Blending Mode to Color.
You can then zoom into a part of the image, like in this case,
I'll zoom into her skirt and I can apply that color just to this area.
And to do so, I can select Layer Mask and invert the Layer Mask.
Now, I can paint with white (#ffffff)
on that Layer Mask in only the areas where I want to reveal that color.
So I'm gonna quickly paint over the image here.
Obviously, spend more time fine-tuning these smaller details in your projects,
but in this case, to save time, I'll go quickly.
But I think that you'll get the idea.
When you're done painting over the image, you can double-click on the Hand Tool
to fit the image, the screen, and now you can use this layer to adjust that particular skirt.
I'll call it "Skirt" so that we know what we're working with.
I can double click on the Color Picker and change the color if I need to.
I can make it less saturated by dragging to the left,
more saturated by dragging to the right.
And you really can't make the color darker
or brighter since the brightness is controlled by the layer below.
Let me just find the right amount
of saturation here for her skirt and I'll press OK.
And from this point, all you need to do is repeat this process
and you have something that looks like this.
And let me know what you think about this Filter in the comments.
Also, let me know what you think about the Neural Filters in general.
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My name is Jesus Ramirez.
Thank you so much for watching.
I look forward to seeing you again in the next Photoshop tutorial.