Tutorial: AKVIS Coloriage

A Flower Show

In the tutorial Partial coloring of B&W photos we showed you how to colorize parts of a black and white picture with AKVIS Coloriage. In this tutorial we will also colorize only a part of the image and will show you some other features of the plug-in.

Open a black and white photo in your photo editing software. Here we have a photo of a lily.

Call the plug-in AKVIS Coloriage.

We are going to colorize only the lily, that's why first we should use the Keep-Color tool to draw a close outline around the flower.

Then select a lilac color from the Colors palette and outline the petals of the lily with the Pencil tool. Select a reseda color for the stamens and draw a line within every stamen with the Pencil tool.

Start the colorization process by pressing the button . You will see the colorized lily in the After tab.

Now you can press the button to apply the result to the picture… but wait, do not close the plug-in window before you learn some tips that will help you to use AKVIS Coloriage efficiently.

First of all, you can save the strokes that you have drawn into a separate file. It is helpful when you want to edit the photo later, for example, if you have to interrupt your work before you have drawn the strokes for all objects. You can save the strokes by pressing the button and close the plug-in's window with the button . When you later load this photo and call the plug-in AKVIS Coloriage, you can open the strokes for the photo with the button and continue working.

Secondly, you can change the color of the strokes with a mouse click. Just select a new color, activate the Tube tool in the Toolbar and click the stroke, the color of which you want to change. If you want to recolor several strokes having one color, you can activate the Magic Tube and click one of such strokes - all the strokes having this color will be recolored.

Here we used the Magic Tube to recolor the lily's petals into yellow.