I have had a few people ask about how I do the colorization technique. I am working on my photography website and I have several images that I scanned from my professional days before kids and need to be able to show to prospective clients. Here is a composition I love! I hate the way it looks after being scanned – so with a few tricks I can spruce up :D Ready?BTW - While I did grow up with a fashion photographer father and lots of college classes - my "digital" education is probably a lot like yours reading blogs and trial and error. The trick that I am using today is one I learned for the Pioneer Woman, but I played around with it to get the softer brown tones that I prefer.
The first thing that I am going to do is click CTRL J to make a working layer that I can manipulate. You will also notice that I have hidden my project pin.
I also need to turn my Background into a workable layer. See below:
Now we can start manipulating.
The first thing that I am going to do is turn Layer 1 to a Sepia Tone by using the Photo Effect that comes with Photoshop Elements 6. Look at the above image and there are 11 square boxes above the Layers Palate – the Sepia Tone has a black box around it and the hit apply. Make sure that you are working with Layer 1 as in the figure below:
Slide it around until you find the right amount of color bleeding through. The above image is at 74% opacity. For me that is too much so I am going to slide the opacity up and I find that I like it at 86%.
I need to flatten my layers together and I do that by going into the Layers Menu in the top tool bar. The last option is flatten image:
I would love to see your images so try this and the please leave me a link so I can see your beautiful images!
7 comments:
I spent quite a bit of time this morning (like I had the time! [smile]) looking at the fantastic images of your beautiful family! I can't thank you enough for sharing them with us!
good idea on the new blog. I don't blame you, thats good thinking! Then the other blog will just be your beautiful work.
Have you shared how to roll the paper before? I love that technique. I am not sure what excatly you call it but I hope you know what I am talking about. :)
What a gorgeous photo - I love how you edited it, it looks just like it was meant to be that way to begin with.qgc
I am so excited! I can't wait to try this! Thanks so much for sharing! :)
I've only played around with this a little. The picture on my new blog header was edited like this. Thanks again for the tips!
I just completed my first sepia!!! It is beautiful!!! I am scrapbooking it and will send it in a little while. Thanks so much!I absolutely LOVE the one you did- makes me wish I could have another baby. Maybe I will strip down Shaylee and let EK hold her:-)
Shay
This blog is a great idea!! I am just venturing in the digital scrapbooking world. What program or programs do you you use? Do you use PhotoShop Elements 6 to do all your photo organization and photo editing?
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