Basic Colourizing A really simple way to colourize using Photoshop.

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HI. This is my first time posting here. So, here goes.

Here I'll teach you the basic way to colourize an image with a couple of different styles to make it more interesting.

 

Style One: Single Colour

1. First, Open an image you want to colorize. Or you can also copy and paste from the Internet. For this tutorial I used a picture of a guy I grabbed from stock.xchng:

 

2. Create a new layer. You can do this by clicking the tiny square icon next to the garbage can on the Layers window:

 

3. Click on the Paint Bucket Tool. It looks like this:

Choose any colour that you like (I used dark green #1d6a0e), with Mode: Normal and Opacity: 100%. Fill the picture with the colour selected.

 

4. Now, to colourize the picture, you need to change blending mode to Color. Do this by Layers > Layer Style > Blending Options. Set it to this:

Or you can do it easier like this:

 

5. The image you'll get will look something like this:

 

Style Two: Multicolour

1. Of course, I'm gonna use the same uncolourized image of the guy.

 

2. Create a new layer.

 

3. Click on the Gradient Tool:

 

4. Now, pick a nice multi-coloured gradient. Then, click-and-drag the mouse across the image. You'll get something like this:

 

5. Change the blend mode to Color. Tada!:

 

 

PS: You can experiment with different blends, values, and opacities to get different effects. Have fun!