jeffers Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Having a go at colouring an old Black and White photo of poor quality I realise. I scanned the original as a Tiff file then converted to RGB 8 bit in AFphoto then played. Using example tutorials as guidance and using adjustment layers ("recolour" and playing with sliders then inverting layer and painting out bits as a mask, or directly painting on a new pixel layer and trying different blend modes etc.) Fairly happy with results. So my question is...... is there a way to get the brick wall mortar joints to a seperate whiter/grey colour? as you can see the red/brown effect for the bricks is in the joints also and I would like them to be more natural? Any hints tips appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisbon Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 "is there a way to get the brick wall mortar joints to a seperate whiter/grey colour?" Not easy to explain but yes, its possible. But first you need to have an idea of the lightness level of the gray joints. L ~ 70% seems a good value. Next add a gradient map from black to white. And add some colors Position 0% #000000 (Black) Position 34% #853D27 (some brick colour i found after a google search. The position of 34% found by trial & error) Position 70% #AEAFAB (70% comes from previous analysis) Position 100% #FFFFFF (White) And after some masking... Alfred, GDPR-415734 and lacerto 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffers Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 Complicated. but something to play around with so many thanks for the pointer to a way of achieving better result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisbon Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Your welcome. I agree, gradient maps can be very powerfull but not to friendly to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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