Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Colorize a black-and-white photo with AKVIS COLORIAGE
You can add color to a grayscale photo in Photoshop
using adjustment layers, masks, and brushes;
however, the Coloriage plug-in from AKVIS makes
colorizing a black-and-white photograph quick and
automatic. You can intuitively add color to a variety of
images from antique photos to hand-drawn sketches
and cartoons and still maintain a very natural look.
You can even use Coloriage to replace the colors in a
color image.
Your image must be in RGB mode for the Coloriage
filters to be applied. Click Image ➪ Mode ➪ RGB
before selecting AKVIS Coloriage from the Photoshop
filters.
You can colorize an image with Coloriage by clicking
different colors from the Colors palette or using the
Color Library for difficult colors such as skin, hair, and
lips. You then paint over areas in the photo with loose
brush strokes. When you click the green forward
button, the software determines the borders of the
various areas and applies the colors based on the
grayscale values.
You can find Coloriage at AKVIS.com.
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Note: Photograph copyright
© Photospin.com.
1 Press Ô+J (Ctrl+J) to duplicate the
Background layer.
2 Click Filter.
3 Click AKVIS.
4 Click Coloriage.
The Coloriage interface appears.
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5 Click and drag the slider to
reduce or enlarge your preview.
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6 Click a color you want to apply to
one area, such as the skin in this
example.
7 Click the Pencil tool to make the
size slider appear.
8 Press the left or right bracket keys
to adjust the pencil size.
9 Click and drag to draw in the
image with the first color.
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