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Hand-Color with the History Brush

Combining the richness of color and the mood of B&W photography, you can create eye-catching artistic effects. And with the History Brush in Photoshop CS, it's easy.

I always shoot my original images in color, even if the sole purpose of the assignment is to deliver B&W prints. Why? Because when you shoot in high-resolution color, you have a full complement of options available later in Photoshop. For example, you can always convert a copy of the photo to B&W, keeping the color original intact. Or, as in this hack, you can mix the two formats.

For this assignment, I want the image to have the artistic feel of B&W photography. I'm also interested in playing with hand-coloring to produce an unusual effect. By shooting the original photo in full color, I can use a little Photoshop magic to combine these looks.

For my source image, I selected a night picture of the Port of San Francisco, as shown in Figure.

The clock tower dominates the foreground, and you can see the Bay Bridge off in the distance. Even though I like this photo in full color, I see some creative possibilities that might emerge by playing with it a bit.

Full-color night shot of the Port of San Francisco

What I have in mind here is to desaturate the entire image, essentially converting it to a B&W photo. I chose to desaturate it instead of converting it to grayscale, because that way, I can retain all the RGB information. That information will provide me access to those channels later, when I'll be ready to return some color to the picture.

First, you convert the image to B&W by applying Image Adjustments Desaturated. In effect, you now have a B&W photo. Make whatever level adjustments you like to make the tones pleasing to your eye. Now, you're ready to start hand-coloring.

Choose History from the Window drop-down menu. This opens the History palette, which enables you to keep track of what's going on. Next, from the Tools palette, select the

History Brush, as shown in Figure.

Use the History Brush to restore color to specific areas of the picture

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A Question For Professional AirBrush Artist?

Hi I have been drawing for about eight years now and been painting for eleven years now so im pretty good at doing those thing. I wanted to start doing air brush art, You know the air brush art you see on T-shirts and at fair's... i thought it was pretty cool and of course who likes spending 25-35 dollars on a t-shirt or anything,So i was wondering where can i buy things to do air-brush art
how much would the price range from and what would be the best paints to buy and tools to buy
because remember I have never done this so i have no idea where to buy anything and what tools to use.
Thanks A lot:))

You can buy the tools and equipment and then watch How-To stuff online. I just came from our County Fair and there was an air brush tattoo booth and a tee shirt place too. There is some company that will sell you the whole deal...tools, paints, booth, stencils and the whole deal too, but I can't remember the name...you can fish around online and maybe find them. Here is one of the sites I just found for air brushes. I used to do air brush photo retouching years ago, before computers took over that kind of thing. Tee shirts take alot of practice...no mistakes or redos on that one. The tattoo thing sounds like fun, and I'll bet there is alot of money in it too. To do alot of work like that, one after another, it takes a separate air brush for each color, so there is no down time for wash ups and color change outs. So it can be expensive. A county fair booth though, with some good designs, would do pretty well though I think. Check out what it costs for a space first...you might be a little sticker shocked. There was a kids face painting booth too, so that might be something to think about art wise.
one site... http://www.tcpglobal.com/airbrushdepot/airb5.aspx
Good Luck

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