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Chapter 10: Removing and Adding Color 281

Colorizing a Black-

and-White Photo

4. Adjust the color until it looks the way you want it to.

Move the sliders for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness until you find the look you

want, and then click OK. Figure 10-10 shows the results.

Figure 10-9:

If you want to color something that has no color

information in it, like a white shirt or a grayscale

image, then in the Hue/Saturation dialog box, turn on

Colorize to add color to the image. If you don’t turn

on the Colorize checkbox, you can adjust the hue,

saturation, and lightness of white all day long, and all

you’ll do is go from white to gray to black because

there’s no color info there for Elements to work on.

Figure 10-10:

Here’s the photo tinted

with a purple tone by

turning on the Colorize

checkbox in the Hue/

Saturation dialog box.

The door was masked

out so that it stays in full

color.

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282 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Colorizing a Black-

and-White Photo

If you selected and masked an area, that part should still show the original color.

You can change your mind about the colorizing by double-clicking the left icon on

the layer in the Layers palette. That brings up the controls for the Hue/Saturation

adjustment again so you can change your settings. ...