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Difficulty: difficulty 1/5

GIMP version: 2.4

Category: Photos / wallpapers

Author: devvv

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Tutorial: Spicing up black/white images

Written by devvv (04 Jul 2008 12:50 AM)
Translated to English by redforce

Today we try to spice up a grayscale image by coloring some parts. We use a photo of Rose McGowan (known from the TV series Charmed where she plays Paige Halliwell) as the original, color the whole image and especially point out the lips and eyes.

  1. Save the image "Rose McGowan" (link is on the right side, below the tutorial details) and open it with GIMP.

    Make sure that Image / Mode / RGB is selected. Otherwise you won't get colors in the next steps.
    Original image (Rose McGowan)
    click to enlarge
  2. To bring a minimal touch of color into the image, use Colors / Color Balance with these values:

    Shadows: 5 / 0 / -5
    Midtones: 0 / 0 / 0
    Highlights: 5 / 0 / -5

    The image should now have a very slight red-yellow tint.
    Red-yellow tint
    click to enlarge
  3. Enlarge the image to 200%. Now we want to color the lips red:

    Choose the paths tool and start on left corner of the mouth by setting a point. Set further points like shown in the picture. Connect the last point with the first one by pressing CTRL.
    screenshot of step 3
    click to enlarge
  4. In order to get nice curves (we have to fit the lips with our selection), press and hold CTRL and click into the middle top point, hold the mouse button and drag the line to the left. So you can define the bending of the curve. Repeat this with the other points until the lips are selected correctly.

    Hit ENTER to create a selection from the path.
    screenshot of step 4
    click to enlarge
  5. - Create a new layer.
    - Choose Select / Shrink, value: 5px.
    - Fill the selection with color #c60000.
    - Select "Soft light" as the layer mode.
    screenshot of step 5
    click to enlarge
  6. The next step is for the eyes: We will color them blue (although she has brown eyes in reality):

    - Create a new layer again.
    - Select the paintbrush tool, some blue (for instance #0085ec) as foreground color and paint over iris and pupil. Use the eraser tool to erase everything that is too much.
    screenshot of step 6
    click to enlarge
  7. Again, set the layer mode to "Soft light".

    Duplicate the background layer. Apply Colors / color Balance (same values as in step 2) to the duplicate.

    Then apply Filters / Blur / Selective Gaussian Blur: blur radius: 5 / max. delta: 20. Set the layer mode to "Soft light". This steps accents the bright areas some more and generally makes areas smoother without blurring the edges.

    If you want to point out the colors some more, you can simplify duplicate the lips or eyes layer.

    At the end, my layers look like this:
    screenshot of step 7
    click to enlarge
  8. After our little image adaption, Rose McGowan looks like this:
    screenshot of step 8
    click to enlarge
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria
This work is licensed under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria.

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From: Megan (05 Aug 2008 04:23 PM)

I got lost at the add new layer part. The menu that was supposed to pop up I guess didn't come up. Could you tell me how exactly to add the layer, in detail?

From: Robert (29 Jul 2008 07:19 AM)

Nice tutorial!! Thanks

From: robert (05 Jul 2008 01:04 AM)

it looks great! thanks for sharing

From: andotyjazz (04 Jul 2008 09:25 AM) – Send a private message

Amazing effect. Thanks for the tuts.

From: Beaniebaby2468 (04 Jul 2008 03:33 AM) – Send a private message

Wow! Cool effect. Nice tutorial I will definately use this one. :)

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