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BloodMoonEquinox — Color Tutorial

Published: 2012-11-24 05:04:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 18330; Favourites: 887; Downloads: 274
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Description November 23, 2012

Another tutorial! This time is on how to change the color of an image.

I forgot to add in the tutorial itself, to get the rainbow effect, you just select a rainbow gradient, set it to linear, and drag it across the flower. It conforms to the transparency lock just like the solid color does.

I'm sure there're already tutorials like this out there, I just discovered this method on my own a few months back. It might not be original, but hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.



EDIT 12/29/12: OMG I got a DD! I was wondering why I had 250+ feedback messages this morning when my average is around 30! It'll take me awhile but I promise I'll give thank-yous and llamas for everybody! Thanks so much to ^PirateLotus-Stock for featuring it!
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Comments: 99

BloodMoonEquinox In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 19:39:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! Personally I think that this works better than Colorize because to me, the Colorize makes the image look a bit flat. I like to use Colorize on a duplicated layer, then I set that layer to Overlay (or whatever looks best) to help give a color overlay to an image that has a lot of different colors in it already, such as a person. But really it all depends on what pictures I'm using and what I'm trying to do with it!

And absolutely, GIMP doesn't get enough credit! I actually prefer it to Photoshop, much to the dismay of my graphic design professors!

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retardedcatplz In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 19:21:58 +0000 UTC]

wow so helpful!

graats on the dd!!!!!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to retardedcatplz [2012-12-29 19:33:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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543Bs0Za In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 19:08:31 +0000 UTC]

Or in photoshop
create a new layer on top of the rose
go into blending mode and create a color overlay
adjust blending mode options in the drop down menu'
1 min at most

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to 543Bs0Za [2012-12-29 19:33:13 +0000 UTC]

Yes, other blending modes work with this as well--I've found that for some images, Overlay or Soft Light work better than Multiply!

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Angie-Pictures [2012-12-29 19:02:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the work! Congratulations on the DD!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to Angie-Pictures [2012-12-29 19:32:13 +0000 UTC]

You're quite welcome, and thank you!

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Angie-Pictures In reply to BloodMoonEquinox [2012-12-29 20:00:48 +0000 UTC]

My sincere pleasure!

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IllyDragonfly [2012-12-29 18:28:08 +0000 UTC]

Oooow! This could be useful!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to IllyDragonfly [2012-12-29 19:30:35 +0000 UTC]

I hope it works out well for you!

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Natmonkey [2012-12-29 18:22:58 +0000 UTC]

Nice. This looks very useful. Thank you for creating and sharing this!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to Natmonkey [2012-12-29 19:30:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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Fractaldragon In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 18:14:08 +0000 UTC]

Nice, straight forward tutorial. One of those things one wonders how to do effectively. Congrats on the DD! I use Photoshop, but this is the sort of tutorial that is easily adaptable for Photoshop!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to Fractaldragon [2012-12-29 19:29:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Yes, with a little tweaking, this should also work with Photoshop!

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Floruna In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 17:39:27 +0000 UTC]

cool! pretty interesting. Congrats for the DD :3

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to Floruna [2012-12-29 18:34:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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iKestrel [2012-12-29 16:25:11 +0000 UTC]

Wow. I'll try this sometime...

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to iKestrel [2012-12-29 16:46:51 +0000 UTC]

Great! I hope it works out!

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iKestrel In reply to BloodMoonEquinox [2012-12-29 17:06:33 +0000 UTC]

Me too..

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HolmesWolf [2012-12-29 16:25:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! This tutorial is great!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to HolmesWolf [2012-12-29 16:46:33 +0000 UTC]

You're so welcome! I really hope that it works out for you!

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SILENTJUSTICE In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 16:14:17 +0000 UTC]

Congraaaaaaaaaaaaaatz for the DD!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to SILENTJUSTICE [2012-12-29 16:45:22 +0000 UTC]

Yay! Thank you so much, Mache!!!!

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SILENTJUSTICE In reply to BloodMoonEquinox [2012-12-31 04:37:51 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome!

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OutsideFate [2012-12-29 15:00:05 +0000 UTC]

But it is broke. It kills the nuances in the mid- and -shadow ranges by flattening it to b/w on beforehand. Colour correction layers and masking would be preferable.

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to OutsideFate [2012-12-29 16:40:01 +0000 UTC]

That may be true, but this method works well for me when I'm doing a quick photomanipulation and I don't want to waste a lot of time nit-picking over tiny details. This tutorial was meant for beginners who are still learning their way around GIMP. This method certainly won't work for all images, but on simple ones like flowers, I think the result looks fairly decent. Nor am I implying that this is the only or best way to achieve this result--in fact, I encourage you to share your color-correcting and masking techniques with the photomanipulation community.

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OutsideFate In reply to BloodMoonEquinox [2012-12-29 16:55:49 +0000 UTC]

Well, I usually use photoshop, since I got it through my school. Right click>Select pixels>my custom shortcut for new mask for the masking and the Colour replacement tool for well... Replacing colours.

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to OutsideFate [2013-01-21 17:34:39 +0000 UTC]

I see. This tutorial is for GIMP, which is a freeware alternative to Photoshop. It doesn't have a color replacement tool, so GIMPers have to use more complex methods for color changing.

late reply is late

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OutsideFate In reply to BloodMoonEquinox [2013-01-21 18:31:18 +0000 UTC]

[link] <-- You are welcome~

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Moofinseeker In reply to OutsideFate [2012-12-29 15:18:22 +0000 UTC]

I agree. Nothing ever has a black shadow. It makes the rose look gritty and unrealistic, like colouring a newspaper cutout with a red sharpie. If that's the look one wants, it's effective. I wouldn't recommend using this to achieve a realistic effect though.

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to Moofinseeker [2012-12-29 16:44:44 +0000 UTC]

The black shadows can be adjusted to the artist's taste in Step 6 using the Levels tool. Personally, I preferred the dark shadows--if you look at my photomanipulations in my gallery, you can see that I favor very dramatic shadows even if they are not "realistic". This is certainly not the only or best method out there for achieving this effect, but this tutorial was geared toward beginners who are still learning GIMP.

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OutsideFate In reply to Moofinseeker [2012-12-29 16:25:35 +0000 UTC]

Exactly! I was thinking "Gee, that looks photocopied and printed onto coloured paper" when I saw the end result. And eve so, there are colourising options in the colour correction tools, making half of the steps double-work.

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Lintu47 [2012-12-29 11:53:20 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on the well deserved DD!
Have a nice day and Happy Holidays!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to Lintu47 [2012-12-29 16:28:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!
Happy holidays to you as well!

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Lintu47 In reply to BloodMoonEquinox [2012-12-29 18:51:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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horsea9 In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 11:40:33 +0000 UTC]

That's just what I was looking for!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to horsea9 [2012-12-29 16:27:58 +0000 UTC]

That's so great to hear! I hope it works out well for you!

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conceptually In reply to ??? [2012-12-29 09:49:24 +0000 UTC]

just what I needed thank you sooo much

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to conceptually [2012-12-29 16:27:36 +0000 UTC]

You're so welcome! I hope it works out well for you!

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DatorVitae [2012-12-29 09:05:58 +0000 UTC]

Wow...thats easier than paint. -__- Should look into this.

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to DatorVitae [2012-12-29 16:27:12 +0000 UTC]

I hope it works out well for you!

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DatorVitae In reply to BloodMoonEquinox [2012-12-29 20:02:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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he4rty [2012-11-25 16:59:40 +0000 UTC]

Nice tutorial, well presented and easy to read and follow.

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to he4rty [2012-11-25 18:24:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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MetaShinryu [2012-11-25 13:44:45 +0000 UTC]



This was pretty much the first method of coloring i discovered while messing with gimp, i still use it when i feel lazy lol

The bad thing with it is that multiply chews up all the highlights and you have to go in again and paint them manually if you are not careful

I recently discovered the combination of overlay and dodge tool is also quite good for coloring grayscale stuff.

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to MetaShinryu [2012-11-25 18:21:49 +0000 UTC]

It's true, the highlights can get pretty washed out using "multiply" mode. Most of it can be brought back with Levels, but since I usually paint in shadows and highlights anyway, it's not much of a problem for me.

Hmm, I haven't tried overlay/dodge yet... Thanks for the tip!

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SILENTJUSTICE [2012-11-24 05:12:38 +0000 UTC]

Coolius!!

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BloodMoonEquinox In reply to SILENTJUSTICE [2012-11-24 17:59:31 +0000 UTC]

Hahaaa, gracias!

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