Black and White to Color
Gimp Image Tutorials | Submited Dec 2, 2007
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How to turn a portion of a black and white image, to color :]
1) Firstly, you need a black and white image and you NEED to make sure it is RGB mode or this tut wont work. To do this,
Image > Mode > RGB
I'm going to be using this image:
(The following images seem to be bigger, i zoomed so i could see what in the world i was doing)
2) Now. you need to select the wings using the
Hand Drawn Region Hot key (f)
It should now look like this:
2)Now, Go to
Layer > Colors > Colorize
Coloring it should look like this:
And that's all there is to it. Good luck :]