Digital Photography and Imaging / WEEK 6 - Project 2A : Exercise 2 - Part 1

27/09/2021
Esther Vanessa [0350751]
Digital Photography and Imaging
WEEK 6 - Practical

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TUTORIAL

For our second exercise, we are asked to recolor a black and white picture that is provided. Photoshop is going to be used again this week. The tutorial given was in both video and presentation platform.

 Mr. Martin's Tutorial Video

Figure 1.1 Before editing picture

TASK

The main tool we'll be using in this exercise is the brush tool and eraser tool.  For starters, I'll be coloring the skin. It is important to note that I use my pen tablet for the most part of the exercise since by using tablet I can have the ability of playing with the pen pressure sensitivity.

Figure 1.2 Coloring of the skin

In order for the color to not look weird, I have to use the blending mode on the layer. In the beginning of coloring process, I chose overlay for most of the layers. 

Figure 1.3 Overlay blending mode

However, after some thoughts I decided to change to soft light to create less harsh coloring on the picture.

Figure 1.4 Soft Light blending mode

One of my main concerns while coloring the skin is how it looks really flat. Therefore, I tried to play around with adding more colors to the skin. For this part I use the clipping mask technique so I won't color more than what I already did in my base.

Figure 1.5 Adding clipping mask to the previous layer

Figure 1.6 After adding more colors to the skin

In order to blend well with the original skin color, I used multiply blending mode too on the red maroon color. I also turn down the opacity a little bit.

Figure 1.7 Multiply blending mode on only the mask layer

Next, I move on to the eyes. Firstly, I colored white on the eyes as a base for it and used Overlay blending mode to make the eyes shine more.

Figure 1.8 Coloring the eyes white as a base

Afterwards, I added a clipping mask and colored the eyes with dark hazel color. 

Figure 1.9 Coloring the pupils dark hazel

I then did the same things to the hair and eyebrow and used the Soft Light blending mode. After some more thoughts, I changed the color of the skin so it'll look more natural.

Figure 1.10 Changes made to the color of the skin

I also made sure to color the shirt and the coat. Both uses Soft Light blending mode. For the last part I had to recolor the background. I actually could just use the brush but there's an easier way by first creating a selection mask with quick selection tool and add masking to the layer that's filled with the color as seen in Figure 1.11.

Figure 1.11 Masking so the color would only fill in the white part of the mask

I also changed up the hue/saturation as shown in figure 1.12 to make the background looks more seamless.

Figure 1.12 Changing the hue/saturation of the background

With that, I am done recoloring the picture. Here is the after picture.

Figure 1.13 Final edit after recolor

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