Colorization Tips
- When selecting a color take into account that the final result depends on the brightness of the grey shade in the original black and white photo. A light-grey area can not be painted in a dark color: no matter how dark the selected color for the area is, the resulting color will be a light shade of this color. The same is true for dark areas: it is impossible to change the color of a dark area in the original image into a lighter color, nor can you make it white. When you replace colors in color photos the brightness of the original color determines the final result.
- Colorization will look natural if you select less saturated colors for your black and white photo. These colors appear in the lower part of the Colors palette.
- If you want to have a smooth color transition (i.e., when assigning several colors for the sky or for verdure), you should draw strokes far from each other; if you want to have a sharp color transition (i.e. when assigning colors for eyes, lips, etc.) you should draw strokes close to each other so that the colors won't flow;
- To remove strokes use the Eraser tool. If you want to remove an entire stroke, press the Alt key (Option in Macintosh) and left-click on this stroke. If you want to remove all strokes, press the keys Alt + Ctrl (Option+Command in Macintosh) and click on the picture. The shortcut
for the Eraser is the E key.
- To change the color of a drawn stroke, you should select a new color, activate the Tube tool and left-click the stroke. If you want to recolor several strokes having one color, you can activate the Magic Tube and click on one of such strokes - all the strokes having this color will be recolored;
- If you want to draw thin strokes (to assign colors to small details), you should first increase the scale of the image using the Navigator window or the hot keys Ctrl++ (Command++ in Macintosh) and Ctrl+- (Command+- in Macintosh).
It owes to the fact that when you scale down the image, the size of the Pencil, Keep-color Pencil and Eraser tools increases, and on the contrary, when you increase
the image scale the size of these tools decreases. Therefore, the thinner
the strokes should be, the larger should be the scale.
- To draw a straight line, activate the Pencil tool, press the Shift key and left-click on the start point of the line and on the finish point. In this way you can draw a polygonal outline.
- Use hot keys for quick access to the tools: Pencil - the B key, Eraser - the E key, Eyedropper - the I-key, Tube - the G key.
- To switch between the tabs Before and After use the Tab-key.
- To change the image scale use the hot keys: + and CTRL++ (Command++ in Macintosh) to increase the scale, - and CTRL+- (Command+- in Macintosh) to reduce the scale.
- If you want to cancel the last action, press the key combination Ctrl+Z (Command+Z in Macintosh). You can cancel the last operations with the button Undo and restore the changes with the button Redo.
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