Greyscale Colorizing

This is a beautiful tutorial which I love, and very useful especially when making layouts. You're going to begin by opening up a nice image in photoshop. Make sure it is black and white!

Once you have your image open, go to your layers palette and at the bottom you'll see a little piece of paper type thing right to the left of the garbage can, that allows you to add a new layer to your image, click it! Head over to your toolbar and click on the gradient tool, use a gradient that is closest to the skin color as you can, here's an example of mine below (the layer in the middle).

As you can see it's a brown color, on the drop down menu above make that layer "Color". Now the black and white picture you have, click on it in your layers palette and press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer and drag it ABOVE the gradient layer (as above), it should go back to being black and white. Your going to do almost the same thing as you did with the gradient palette, in the drop down menu make that black and white image "Overlay" (remember you are making the copied image overlay, not your original image).

Ok, so as you can see from the image above, you are going to click on "Brushes" on your toolbar and just pick the beginning ones that look like dots, and on the top beside where you choose your brush, there's yet ANOTHER drop down menu, scroll down and choose "Color". Now on your duplicated image (not your gradient and not your original image) Pick a color and start going over the face with eyeshadow colors, and the lips and hair and then you can work on skintones, etc. This is how mine turned out.

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