I LOVE black and white photography. The problem is, when you shoot B&W from the camera, there's no way to get the color back. When you shoot in color from the camera, you can always convert to gray-scale or B&W and still keep a copy of the original color photo. Here I am going to show you two photos that I shot in B&W from the camera, but then added color to it. These are just quickies, so please forgive me for the little things you can see. This is a really neat technique to use when you have old B&W film or B&W photos scanned to your computer and you want to add color to them. The results can sometimes be amazing!
I made her hair look more like her actual hair color, added pink to her lips for effect, and made her eyes blue. I could've gone and done her face but I liked the way her eyes and lips popped. Maybe I will do her face next time.
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This was my first attempt with this technique so just ignore the rough edges for now. Typically in my older works I had taken a color photo and created a B&W layer of it and then erased the flower so the color layer would be revealed. This was fun because I got to add whatever color I wanted to the flower! There are many ways to get color added to a photo. The technique I used in these were the simplest of the ways I've found. I created a mask using the paint brush, then created a color adjustment layer from the mask and used the sliders to choose the colors I wanted. It was quick and simple and produced a near life-like image.
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