Tutorial: AKVIS Coloriage

Changing color of the car body

You can colorize this car yourself using the half-finished materials that we give you. Download an archive containing the original image and the file with the strokes (*.strokes). Read the instruction here to see how AKVIS Coloriage works.

Watch a flash movie demonstrating the technique of colorization with AKVIS Coloriage. Click here! (flash-movie, 11.9 Mb)

This example shows how to replace colors on a color photo keeping other colors unchanged.

For the example we have chosen a photo of a car.

We will apply AKVIS Coloriage to change the yellow color of the car body, while other colors (the color of the roof, headlights, wheels, the sky, the snow, etc) will stay the same. Follow these instructions:

Step 1. Open the original color photo with the car.
Step 2. Call the AKVIS Coloriage plug-in. For this purpose in Adobe Photoshop select the menu item Filter – AKVIS – Coloriage; in Corel PHOTO-PAINT - select the menu item Effects – AKVIS – Coloriage.
Step 3. Select the color for the car body. You should take into account that the original color of the car body is light-yellow, therefore the resulting color will also be light. In this case it is impossible to get a dark-blue or a vinous color. Select a light color from the Colors palette, for example, lilac.
Step 4. Select the Pencil tool from the Control panel and draw an outline within the car body following the shape of its boundaries. As some car details that fall into the contour should not be painted (the air pipe, the door-handle, etc) you should outline them with the color selected for the body.
Step 5. Select the Keep-color Pencil from the Control panel and draw a closed outline around the car body. The contour should be drawn around the boundaries of the car body and pass all objects that are contiguous to the car body, but the color of which should stay the same (for example, the background, headlights, roof, windows, wheels of the car). The contour must be closed. We will use the same tool to mark the air pipe, the door-handle and other details that fall into the contour of the car body.
Step 6. Press the button . The result of the colorization will be shown in the After tab.
Step 7. Apply the result of the colorization by pressing the button .