any way to transform a b/w photo into a color photo?

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I'm using Photoshop Elements 3 but don't see any obvious way to do
it. There's a colorize option but that only seems to do one particular
color.

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"Neil Ellwood" <carl.elllwood2@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:54:51 -0700, trevor_smithson wrote:
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>> I'm using Photoshop Elements 3 but don't see any obvious way to do
>> it. There's a colorize option but that only seems to do one particular
>> color.
> That is the way you will have to do it. You could only do multiple colours
> in one go if the colours already existed.
>
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There was a nice article at www.shuttertalk.com about colouring B&W photos.

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How about a program that could list each different shade of gray
and black in the picture, and list the possbilities for each and let
the user try the various colors unil something looks right and then
goes on to the next?

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How about a program that could list each different shade of gray
and black in the picture, and list the possbilities for each and let
the user try the various colors unil something looks right and then
goes on to the next?

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<francisco9@att.net> wrote in message
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> How about a program that could show the various shades of gray and
> black in the picture, and list the possbilities for each and let
> the user triy the various colors unil something looks right and then
> goes on to the next?
Uhm... because maybe the green trees and the blue trousers are the exact
same shade of grey?
Because the blue trousers have 150 different shades of grey between the part
that is in the sun and the part that is in shadow and the transition
between?
The only way of colorising a B&W is by doing it manually, by hand-tinting
each area of the photo as you see appropriate. Whether that hand-tinting is
done by paints as it was 100 years ago, or whether it is done in photoshop
is irrelevent - the same basic technique still applies.
Of course, the alternative is to take 3 B&W photos - one with a red filter,
one with a blue filter and one with a green filter, then superimpose them
with appropriate filtration when viewing. This technique was actually used
in the early days as a means of creating Colour photos.
>

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"Gormless" <simeon@gormless.com> wrote in message
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> <francisco9@att.net> wrote in message
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>> How about a program that could show the various shades of gray and
>> black in the picture, and list the possbilities for each and let
>> the user triy the various colors unil something looks right and then
>> goes on to the next?
>>
>
> And would you like us to do this four times, or do you just not know how
> to
> post?
>
>
>
Hi there.

I rather liked this question, and some of the answers. There is a very
obvious solution.

When the Camera is shooting in B & W or when the picture is being converted
to B & W, it would be fairly easy for the software to put little numbers
into each shade of gray, so that people would know what colour should be
there.

We have had "painting by numbers" for ages, why should photography have to
miss out.

Roy G

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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:19:06 +1000, Justin Thyme wrote:

>
> <francisco9@att.net> wrote in message
> news:1127512502.498674.70800@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> How about a program that could show the various shades of gray and
>> black in the picture, and list the possbilities for each and let
>> the user triy the various colors unil something looks right and then
>> goes on to the next?
> Uhm... because maybe the green trees and the blue trousers are the exact
> same shade of grey?
> Because the blue trousers have 150 different shades of grey between the part
> that is in the sun and the part that is in shadow and the transition
> between?
> The only way of colorising a B&W is by doing it manually, by hand-tinting
> each area of the photo as you see appropriate. Whether that hand-tinting is
> done by paints as it was 100 years ago, or whether it is done in photoshop
> is irrelevent - the same basic technique still applies.
> Of course, the alternative is to take 3 B&W photos - one with a red filter,
> one with a blue filter and one with a green filter, then superimpose them
> with appropriate filtration when viewing. This technique was actually used
> in the early days as a means of creating Colour photos.
>>
Yoy think he wants to go back to the 1870's?
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Neil
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yep I would I agree other than doing it manually which can be time
consuming and a pain............. I would suggest the latter in the
above post