Ally, I've only used brushes on gimp. I don't know how to put new brushes on photo shop yet.
New tutorial. I know we have a lot of new people wanting to color pictures...thought I'd do a tutorial. (and I got bored!)
First Pick your picture...for your first colored picture, pick something simple. I'm going to be coloring a picture of Elisabeth of hesse
Open the picture in photoshop (I'm using photoshop elements.) and convert it to black and white. For the picture to be colored, the image mode must be set to 'RGB color'.
click on the brush tool and set the mode from normal to color.
Next, pick the starting color...hair and skin color.
I always color the skin and hair first. Make sure the opacity is a 100% so the color will show up. don't worry about 'staying in the lines' you can fix that later when we're zoomed in on her face.
next, fix where you missed or went 'outside the lines' (like by coloring her necklace) then zoom in on her face...Color her eyes white and color her irises. and her lips.
To put color on her cheeks turn the opacity down, 30 to 40 a really light picture, and no lower the 20 for a dark. pick a pink color...whatever looks good to you. you also want to use a blur edge brush...
next, color the detail in her clothes and hair.
Color in the background, and fix any thing you may have missed.
Now the picture is done....color not come out how you wished? dont worry, there are ways to fix that...
one way, I use a lot. its Overlay. pick a brown (not to dark, not to light...I've found brown works best) and change the brush mode to 'overlay' make your brush size big. the color over the picture to add the overlay.
and that's it! you've colored your first picture!
here's the final picture..all done!
Hope it was easy to understand!
Lynn
