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03/30/2006 12:40:10 PM · #1 |
| Can I turn a black and white pic into color? |
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03/30/2006 12:48:12 PM · #2 |
| Unless the black and white was done using in-camera raw (I don't know if your camera does that), then the color is gone. Best you can do is colorizing in a photo editor, which would be a manual process. |
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03/30/2006 12:50:58 PM · #3 |
Obviously you have to do it manually, but you can add some selective colour to simple photos by making selections for each colour and colorizing them.
I have a couple of examples, although i went for the very subtle tones
See here
  
It takes patience but I personally really like the style
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03/30/2006 12:52:00 PM · #4 |
If you mean "natural color", what gatorguy said.
If you mean "arbitrary color", then yes you can, easiy. Go to "image/mode" and select "RGB Color" for a first step. Then you can use (simplest case) "selective color" and "hue/saturation" adjustment layers to get colors in there.
There are many other, and increasingly more complex, ways to do it.
The above assumes Photoshop as your editor, BTW.
R.
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03/30/2006 12:58:38 PM · #5 |
It can be done, but it takes time.
I did this one a long time ago, by creating a new layer via copy, adding a tone/color, then erasing everything I didn't
want changed, and kept repeating until I had a fair resemblance of what it may have looked like at one time.
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