{"id":190,"date":"2007-07-22T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/22\/photoshop-tutorial-add-color.htm"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:41:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T00:41:52","slug":"photoshop-tutorial-add-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/22\/photoshop-tutorial-add-color.htm","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Tutorial: Add color using curves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/convert-photo.jpg\" alt=\"photoshop tutorial\" style=\"float: left\" \/><!--adsense#half_banner2--><br \/>\nHow to add color to grayscale photos using curves in <strong>Adobe Photoshop<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Would you like turn your blac&amp;white photo into Coloured one? Ok Let&#8217;s start with this nice tutorial:<\/p>\n<p><em>STEP 1 <\/em>: Clean up the image as best as you can (remove scratches, dust, etc..)<\/p>\n<p><em> STEP 2<\/em> : Convert the image in CMYK &#8211; This is an important step<\/p>\n<p><em>STEP 3<\/em> : Make a selection of an area using quick selection or any other tool you prefer. Each part of the portrait will have a separate mask (skin, hair, lips.. ect..)<\/p>\n<p><em>STEP 4<\/em> : Nopw create an adjustment Layer<\/p>\n<p><em>STEP 5<\/em> : Fix some discoloured outline using the Blur filter<\/p>\n<p>I tried this method with some pics of mine and the results looked very, very good!<\/p>\n<p>Consider my text above as a memorandum and see the video below to watch how to do that! Enjoy it!!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/689597\/color_a_photo_using_curves_in_photoshop\/\">Add color using Curves in Photoshop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/tags\/kainoa03\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kainoa03<\/a> for this tutorial!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to add color to grayscale photos using curves in Adobe Photoshop? Would you like turn your blac&amp;white photo into Coloured one? Ok Let&#8217;s start with this nice tutorial: STEP 1 : Clean up the image as best as you can (remove scratches, dust, etc..) STEP 2 : Convert the image in CMYK &#8211; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}