To Convert Black $ White Photo To Colour(Cs5)

In my last post i have posted the article about how to convert a colour photo into black and white. So i thought why should i provide you the article for creating a colour photo from black and white photo. After seeing this tutorial if you have any doubts please dont shy to ask even if they are silly doubts so try to learn this tutorial and implement for you own photo.

Here is a black & white photo.




And this is the one colored by Photoshop:




Let's first open a black & white photo:


Change its color mode by Image - Mode - RGB color (Make sure you select it !):



Zoom in till 200%.
Select the Magnetic lasso tool and make sure the settings like this:
Set Feather to 1px, check Anti-aliased, set Width to 10px, set Edge Contrast to 10%, and Frequency to 100.


Click on the edge of any object: Hair, face, body, shoes, hands etc. Move your mouse around the edges of the object until you complete selection.

Press Ctrl+J to make Layer via Copy
Select Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation and select Colorize:
Adjust the Hue/Saturation and Lightness till it looks realistic:


Repeat things above for the rest of the photo:



Select Layer - Flatten Image.

Select Image - Adjustments - Auto Levels & Auto Contrast & Auto Color.