Simple Photo Retouch

Simple Retouch Photo

When I’m on surfing in the internet, I visited one of the famous forum in my country, KASKUS. As always, I visited Lounge and start to read every thread which looks interesting for me. Then I see one thread which makes me interested. The title is ”Dewa Photoshop dari Jojga gan!!” means “God of Photoshop from Jogja!”. If you’re interested to, right click to open this link in new tab or new window.

I saw that most user admire and amazed with the works. The photos is retouched using Photoshop from a grayscale photo into a new look of colorful photo even the color is smooth. I scroll down the page to see the collection until I realized in one of the photo. Shown traditional Jogja’s army in green suit. I felt a little bit strange because the color of its suit didn’t look natural. It almost looks same color with the army under the shade.

So, I’m interested to do a little work to try what that people have done. I’ll try to retouch one of the photo from the collection and I pick this one.

It shown the Indonesian women wore traditional java dress (kebaya) and hold umbrella to cover her from the sun.

I open it in photoshop like this,

What i want to do is to give a little touch to the left photo with color so makes it looks like the right. Here we go to the delicious part!. Create new layer, press Ctrl + Shift + N, give it a name. Now, zoom in the project using zoom tool or press "Z" and press the left click to pointing your zoom like this.

Now, I will start to use polygonal lasso tool to select the area where I want to change. Start with the cloth.

After  selection, I will choose the color to be implemented for the cloth. I will use foreground color and choose the color suit me. I choose dark green.

And then, I press Alt+Del to fill the selection with it.

Now, I’ll go to  Layers window, click to the layer where contains the color selection. Then click on the drop down blending options menu. And select “color”

Look at the project again, and  VOILA! The cloth now has its color!

If you hesitate with  the color, you can adjust it. Go to image -> Adjustment -> Hue/Saturation.

New box will appear. There are 3 sliders in there. Move the Hue to change the color of the cloth.

You also can try to move other slider to see what happen.

Here is the sample what I’ve done using Hue.

If you want to do more, you can try to retouch other area or other photo with the same way I do it before. So  when I finish it,the photo can be looks like this.