Instructions on how to color in Photoshop

Coloring in photoshop is a fairly basic and simple operation, but for those who are new to Photoshop, it will be difficult. So in this article, TipsMake.com will guide you through the detailed steps to color in photoshop, please refer.

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For example, we have a black and white image below, we will proceed to color this image.

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Step 1 : Please notice below on the left toolbar there are 2 default colors are black and white.

The upper black is called Foreground and the white below is called Background , to switch between the two colors, press the X key .

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Step 2 : At the top right of the screen will be the palette area so we can change the colors for the Foreground and Background as we like.

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Step 3 : Now we will select the Magic Wand Tool to select the area to fill.

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To select the highlighted area, click on the desired area, if you need to select multiple areas, hold down the Shift key to select the additional areas you want:

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Step 4 : Select the color you want to paint and press Alt + Delete to fill the Foreground color or press Ctrl + Delete to fill the Background.

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For example, here we select blue for the Foreground and press Alt + Delete and we can see that the area we selected is highlighted in green:

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To remove dotted lines, press Ctrl + D.

Similarly we color the rest of the image:

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Step 5 : After finishing painting the image we choose File -> Save to save the image and it is done:

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Above is a simple tutorial on how to color in photoshop, hope the article will be helpful to you. Good luck.