Add a touch of color to a black and white photo?

Are these digital photos that have black and white "baked in"? In other words, did you set up a digital camera to store your color image as black and white? If so, you should consider never, ever doing that. The best way to add color to B&W is:

1. Store the photo in color (I.e., normal)

2. Convert it to B&W in Aperture

3. Use a brush to brush color back in

nathan

Hi Nathan,

but even after "baking in" the black and white by using a Gray Scale color model, you can brush in color in Aperture:

Add a "Levels" Brick and manipulate the cannels. This way you can brush in different tints to gray regions.

My network connection here is too slow to upload a screenshot, but brushing in color on gray scale scans (tiff, png) works quite well.

Cheers

Léonie

easiest way is to spend $1.99 on Color Splash Studio from the App store.

Ledted wrote:

easiest way is to spend $1.99 on Color Splash Studio from the App store.

Can you confirm that Color Splash Studio allows one to _add_ a hue to a grayscale image? I asked their support, and got this answer which seems to say that one cannot add hues other than sepia or blue (cyanotype simulation is my guess) to grayscale images:

Regarding your questions: the app can add hue in color photography, but when in grayscale mode, you can adjust brightness, contrast, blur and amount. Also, our monochrome layers include grayscale, sepia and blue tone, so you can choose.