Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Add Colors to Butterfly

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Add Colors to Butterfly Tutorial: Final Result

1. Open any black & white picture to which you wants to add colors.

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2. Now select Polygonal Lasso Tool and select the flower.

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3. To give colors to flower i used Hue/Saturation.Open Hue/Saturation Dialogue Box from Image>Adjustments.

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4. Then i used Burn tool to give some shading.

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5. With the same technique, give colors to butterfly and to the remaining picture.

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6. To remove the sharpness of edges,duplicate the layer and apply 3px Gaussian Blur. Set its layer mode to Hard Light.

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7. Again Duplicate this layer and set its layer mode to Screen.

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Add Colors to Butterfly Tutorial: Final Result