Lesson 4 - Colorizing

Colorizing is a technique similar to duotone except you are imposing a gradient upon the image, rather than a set of two colors.

This is an image from the tutorial cd I colorized. I used a fairly simple gradient with a white cream and reddish brown. I like how the background is slightly washed out, while her face retains a lot of detail.

This was also created from images on the tutorial cd. I layered the butterfly wing and fireworks images with a screen mode on the fireworks if I remember correctly. This caused the black night sky of the fireworks to become transparent. After that, I applied a gradient that included colors from the fireworks and butterfly wing. I feel that it still retains the traditional monarch butterfly's orange and black colors, while making them appear to explode with reds and yellows you'd see in fireworks.

Matthew Williams