Tutorial: AKVIS Coloriage

Colorization of a black and white photo

You can colorize this photo 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.

You can surely find some black and white photos in your photo archive. They were taken at a time when color photos were rare even in photography studios.

We will colorize this black and white photo.

• Step 1. Scan the photo at the 300 dpi resolution and open it in your photo editor.

• 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 a dark color for the dress and draw an outline within the dress following its boundaries. It is necessary to draw lines along the boundary of the beads as well.
• Step 4. We select the blue color for the background and draw an outline along the shoulders and the head of the girl.
• Step 5. Apply green strokes to the beads.
• Step 6. Select colors for the hair, the lips and the skin from the Color library. Outline the eyes and the lips with the color chosen for the skin, so that the colors chosen for the eyes and lips do not spread to the skin.
• Step 7. Now we set the color for the eyes: apply blue strokes to the eye iris and white points to the white of the eye.
  
• Step 8. Press the button and you will see the colorized photo in the After tab.
  
• Step 9. Apply the result by pressing the button .