How to make black & white photo into color?

Question

I need to make Black & White photo into color. Photo Description : the baby & man. i can't give the correct skin color and effect. please anyone to guide me

Answer 1

You can tint the entire picture easily, but if you want to make a full color photo, all you can do is paint on the correct colors. It is a very labor intensive process, and usually doesn't work so well. Skin tones are extremely difficult to get right.



You need something that works in layers, like GIMP (free) or Photoshop (not free). You make a new layer, and paint the appropriate color over the part of the image you want... using layers, you can adjust the transparency of the color, and all sorts of other things. When you get that part the way you want it, you make a new layer and start on the next part. Save often, keep it in PSD format so you don't lose the layer information. You can work on it over time that way and not have to start again from scratch.



Good luck, the advice above to find a tutorial or two on Youtube is a good idea.

Answer 2

You can't. It's just that simple, it just isn't possible. You can't replace information that just wasn't there to begin with. If a picture was taken in black and white (with black and white film, or with grayscale if you use a digital camera), there was never any color information captured. About the only thing you can do is add a "tint" to the picture, such as a red "sepia" tint. Most image editing programs will have features where you can tint the picture red, blue, sepia, etc which simulates toning. But you can't actually make a black and white picture color, with the correct colors, because that information was just never captured. Even an image editing program can't fake it, because the computer wouldn't know where to add the colors. Otherwise, the only thing you could do is add colors manually...just imagine hand-coloring a picture. It's just not practical. You can convert a COLOR picture into black and white, but NOT the other way around.

Answer 3

You can use photoshop thats your best bet, look for tutorials online (youtube)