Photo Colouring... through Adobe Photoshop

Hello! This is my first post. Let me introduce myself first. The name is Hannah. You can call me Hana or Anna ;D. I'm from TCHT and currently I'm doing my Diploma in Tourism Management. I still haven't join any of the club's activities but I hope I can contribute something through this blog. My "expertise" mostly are designing posters and stuffs; instead of photography skills. (haha.. shame on me ;P) So perhaps most of my post will be related to photoshop tips and tricks. And.. umm.. lets move on, shall we? ;D

(I assume that u have some basic photoshop knowledge but I'll add a guideline in a picture format later, when I have the time because I know photoshop can be really confusing for beginners)

So, you want to know how to change the photo from the left to the right?

STEP 1:
Find an image. Crop it and resize it according to your preference. Don't use an image that is too dark. Try to adjust it if possible (such as brighten it etc). This is mine. I grabbed it from deviantart photo stock. Here's the link (the unknown girl). The original photo, which I'll rename it as a "base" looks like this..

STEP 2:
Duplicate your base and set it to Screen at 25%. So now we have two layers.

STEP 3:
Duplicate your base and set it to Overlay at 100%. Arrange it on top of the Screen layer.


STEP 4:
Add a new layer, and insert a colour. I suggest soften the photo and the all the whites by adding a Color Fill layer with #01001a (a dark blue colour). Then set it to Exclusion. Put this layer on top of the previous layer. Depends on your photo, you can use a different colour. Just experiment several colours until you found a suitable colour ;D


STEP 5:
Add a Hue/Saturation layer with an amount of +15 for hue and saturation. You can access this one by going to Layer-->New Adjustment Layer-->Hue/Saturation (or u can use the Selective Colors option. can be found at the same place)

STEP 6:
So basically, it is done! Can you see the colour difference? You can add some lightning effects or other designs to make the photo look beautiful. This depends on your creativity though... ;D

Not all photo are compatible with this colouring technique though. Goodluck!