Colour My World

A few people have asked for a tut on how to colourise ;o)
So, here it is.

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
A Tube or Image of choice Make sure the artist allows colour changes!!! The original can be multi coloured already or monochrome. I'll show you examples for both. My tubes are by Barbara Jensen and Zindy S.D.Nielsen.

Open your tube or image and duplicate with shift+D, close the original. Now choose your selection tool, set to point to point, add (if you cannot set to add you hold the shift key to select more than one section of the image). Set the feather to 0, smoothing to 0. Make sure you have the precise cursor, not the one where you see the tool icon. To see how to change it look at my tubing tutorial.

Now, click along the edges of the areas you want to colourise the same colour. Surround just like you would when you're tubing. If it is a tube, like my first example, you don't need to go along the edge over transparent parts. Now we get to the fun part.

If you want the colour to match something else, grab that colour with your colour picker. Click on the foreground colour to open the material properties. You need to know two numbers from it. The H (hue) and S (saturation) for me it's 150 and 108. Now click on Adjust/ Hue and Saturation/ Colorize. I'm starting with a colourised image, so I want it neutral first, I put both to 0. OK. Now I go there again and put in 150 and 108. And it's light blue. But all the shading of the painting is still there. Selections/ select none.

Next I selected the hair. Here the add comes into it's own, it's easier to do the small strands one by one. Zoom in to see properly.

I changed her to a mousy brown, more like mine now lol. I like pink lippy and I have blue eyes, so does she now ;o). I'm done with this one. Name it and save it to the artists folder.

When you're using a black and white image you go straight to the colours, and don't 0/0 first. I didn't colourise Jessica Albas skin or hair, thought it was more striking this way.

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