Bugler Colorized

Posted on November 17, 2013 in Colorization, Photoshop

This is another photograph I found online and colorized as an exercise. The first thumbnail shows the black and white original image. The second image shows the first stage, where I have a color fill for each area of the photograph. The third thumbnail shows the stage after I began to layer colors, making a richer skin tone, the color and texture of the bugle, and deepening certain values.

For the final stage, I created a desaturation mask, that allowed me to selectively desaturate areas that were farther from the viewer, followed by an overall adjustment of the saturation, levels, temperature and contrast to give the photograph a more realistic look. This one took a lot of time because of the number of shapes in the image, there was a lot of masking involved.

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