DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING-W6 PRACTICAL : RECOLORING BLACK & WHITE

28/10/2024 / Week 6

Christopher Jayson Tan / 0378500

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Project 6/Exercises 

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INDEX

• Lectures
• Tutorial
• Practical
• Reflection

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LECTURES

Mr. Fauzi taught us how to give color to black and white pictures with different methods like overlay. It gives bland pictures some life and it is very interesting.

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TUTORIAL

1. PROJECT 1B - PART 2: Recoloring Black and White 

• Follow instructions from the W6_RECOLORING BREAKDOWN:
  EXERCISE 1: https://bit.ly/3dXGYu8
  EXERCISE 2: https://bit.ly/3rpZvCp

SUBMISSION ON E-PORTFOLIO
Attach your Week 6 E-Portfolio link on this submission.

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PRACTICAL

Exercise 1

We were given the task to give color to a black and white picture of an old man, so first i started by doing the skin, eyes, lips, and hair, with their own individual layers. I use the soft light and overlay blending to give me a decent result and tweak the opacity as well.

Figure 3.1 Coloring the skin, eyes, lips, and hair

after that is done, i start coloring the background color with blue and the collar as well with the color brown, gave them the overlay blending option.

Figure 3.2 Coloring the background and collar

Figure 3.3 Final results

Exercise 2

So for the second exercise, we were tasked to color a black and white picture of a lady and also another black and white picture that we choose later on using other colored images as a color reference. 

Figure 3.4 Cropping process

I started by picking the colors from 2 images provided by Mr. Fauzi one for the skin and one for the hair, next i cropped the hair and refined it and did the same with the skin, fur jacket, and background. For the lips i use a normal brush with the color red. I use different blending options such as overlay and also softlight to achieve different looks.

Figure 3.5 Final results

After giving color to the black and white lady, i chose a black and white obama picture as the next object to color. I started by finding a colored picture of obama online as color reference.

Figure 3.6 Obama reference

Next i moved on to carefully cropping the face, hair and background using refine edge tool as well to make it more better.

Figure 3.7 Cropping process

After that, i gave color to the American flag at the collar and also giving the lips a pale pink color using a brush and also the overlay blending option.

Figure 3.8 Giving color to the little objects

Figure 3.2 Final results

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REFLECTION

This exercise has taught me a new skill, to give life to black and white pictures, it is a very unique exercise and the process itself is pretty simple. It taught me to be more attentive and to focus on the little things such as the eye, it is a very enjoyable exercise overall.