Black and White photos

[Jennie5]

Hi

Do you have a video just on colouring a black and white photo to colour

I am new and I have been trying to learn. However I cannot find a video on this. 

I colourise old black and white photos to colour, the below photos were done on a different program, which is very basic.

My friend told me that Affinity has a lot more features, if you could just point me to a video just on this subject that would be great. I have seen videos where they have a colour photo and brighten a area however this is not what I want

Below is an example of want I would like to do in Affinity.

Thank you very much in advance

Jennie

 

[Lee D]

Hi Jennie,

Welcome to the forums.

We don't have a dedicated tutorial on colourising black and white photos. However a quick YouTube search finds quite a few to choose from. I've also followed this one before, it's aimed at PS but it you can confident in using the app most of the steps can be done in Affinity.

[DM1]

Hi Jennie5, I like to colourise old photos too. I'm no 'expert' but find I get reasonable results using a mix of gradient maps, or fills with empty masks. The colour effect can be fine tuned using opacity settings and layer blend modes. 

You select/highlight your main pixel image layer in the layer studio. 

Add a gradient map or fill layer (I prefer the gradient map as it applies colour based on lightness and darkness in the image). If a gradient map I find it useful to save the map too, for later use.

Selecting the gradient map, go to channel studio and invert the mask.  If you used a fill layer you will need to apply an empty mask.

Now sect the mask layer, choose a brush and set the colour to white (with masks White reveals and Black conceals). 

Paint where you want the colour to show.

I have attached the file for you to have a play with.

army recolour.afphoto

[Jennie5]

Hi

Thank you so much, I have just read your reply, I will have a go and thanks for the link. I will certainly have a play in the morning

Thank you 

Jennie

[Jennie5]

Thank you for replying to my post. 

I will watch the link you sent me for Utube 

thank you 

Jennie

[Rosoe.Ezell]

See the below topic which I started.  Didn't know how to do it with the iPad version, desktop version was easy. 

 

[DM1]

How to set up and adjust gradient for painting. The more points you add to the gradient map the greater the variation to shadows/highlight tones in the bow photo.

Use a new gradient map for each different colour. If you do a lot of one type of colour, say coats or skin, then save the gradient map for later use on other projects. 

Have fun. 

[Jennie5]

Thank you all for helping me 

Jennie