[stormy]

This is my first attempt at adding color to black and white.

[Mom2Riley]

ADORABLE!


*I see a few smudges but who am I to say anything...I can't even do that!*

[stormy]

Don't worry about that...Tell if you see something that I might be able to improve. That is the only way I am going to learn.

Here is another one I just did of Jeanne.

ADORABLE!


*I see a few smudges but who am I to say anything...I can't even do that!*[/b]

Thanks for pointing that out actually. I would never had noticed it but I see it right above her sleeve. It is the house next door to us. Thanks again.

[JuneBug2006]

It looks great!

I also attempted this for the first time last night!

[stormy]

Here is the third attempt. I still have trouble getting close to the edge.

[*PurpleMidnight*]

nice. It takes practice but you are getting there

[Mjp121212]

good job! I'm not sure how you are doing it, but an easy way is to select the part you want to keep in color, then grayscale the rest B&W....super fast that way and the color remains....if you already have in B&W then select what you want in color and colorscale it.....not sure if that is the right word. But that's how I do it and I've turned the colors into whatever color I want that way.


I think Dava might have been the one to show me that....was it you Dava????

[~Dava~]

Great job, Shelley, I really like the first one, it looks great...yeah, a bit "out of the lines", but we all did when we first learned how to "color". I'm not as big of a fan of the 2nd too, (hope this is ok ), they're just a bit "much" for me...but I'm picky about selective coloring, I don't like to use it a ton. JMHO of course!

ETA: No Missica, wasn't me.

[Rylie's Mom]

when i do selective coloring i put it all in grayscale and use the history brush to do my coloring. are you zooming in super far and using a very small pixel for the edges? that's what i was doing wrong in the begining. i also found that doing small amounts and then releasing my mouse helps too. then if you have to hit undo, you don't lose a ton of work. Good job with your starters though!

[stormy]

Thanks for the advice. This is one I just did by just adding color to the Santa hat. What do you think? After looking at the two I have to agree that they had to much color added to them.

[~Dava~]

Yeah, there you go, that ones definitely more my style...I like it.

[stormy]

Thank you

[Mjp121212]

I like that one too...

hmmm Dava....wonder who it was then lol....

[momofemnry]

What program are you guys using to do that?

[stormy]

I am using photoshop elements 5

[stormy]

I took the one of Jeanne where I had too much color in it the first time ago and took some suggestions and this is what I came up with.






Opps I just notice where I left some of the blue out of the hat near the hair.

And the Goose that I try it on last night.




Here is one that I did last night. I added the color of the bay back and the color of Laura's uniform and the pink socks that she sneaked out of the house with and too school. I would had never notice unless I had seen this picture.

[Sarah_S]

the first one it great and my favorite is the santa hat. nice job