post painting black and white images

This process originates from when only black and white film was around and artists would paint on the prints to make them colour. This can be recreated in photoshop quite simply.

you start off with a black and white image.





you create a new layer and set it to the 'colour' overlay and paint over it.

I started off with the background using very pastel colours and often turning the opacity of the layer down.

I then did the skin tone of the main subject.


I also did the hair in a less saturated colour from the skin tone, I didn't use just grey because it looked unnatural.

 I then added the decals in the jacket/overthrow using two shades of red for the strips.