1. Open your Black and White photograph in Photoshop.

2. Click the "Edit in Quick Mask Mode" toggle button to enter Quick Mask Mode (or press Q).
3. Select a brush size appropriate for the size of your photograph. Choose Black as your foreground color.
4. Paint the area that you want to color. The paint will be a transparent red. This indicates where you are painting the mask.

5. For the face in this tutorial, I painted everywhere that was skin, so that I can add the color of the skin to the face.

6. Click the "Edit in Standard Mode" toggle button (or press Q).
7. Goto Select > Inverse.
8. The area that you want to color should now be selected.

9. Goto Image > Adjustment > Color Balance...
10. Adjust the sliders to get the color that you want.

11. Click OK and you should now have the selected area colorized.

12. Follow Steps 2 thru 11 for the other parts of the photo that you want to color.
13. Below I selected and colored the lips:

14. Then I selected and colored the eyes:

15. When you are done selecting and coloring every part of your black and white photo, you will have a colorized photograph!


2. Click the "Edit in Quick Mask Mode" toggle button to enter Quick Mask Mode (or press Q).
3. Select a brush size appropriate for the size of your photograph. Choose Black as your foreground color.
4. Paint the area that you want to color. The paint will be a transparent red. This indicates where you are painting the mask.

5. For the face in this tutorial, I painted everywhere that was skin, so that I can add the color of the skin to the face.

6. Click the "Edit in Standard Mode" toggle button (or press Q).
7. Goto Select > Inverse.
8. The area that you want to color should now be selected.

9. Goto Image > Adjustment > Color Balance...
10. Adjust the sliders to get the color that you want.

11. Click OK and you should now have the selected area colorized.

12. Follow Steps 2 thru 11 for the other parts of the photo that you want to color.
13. Below I selected and colored the lips:

14. Then I selected and colored the eyes:

15. When you are done selecting and coloring every part of your black and white photo, you will have a colorized photograph!

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