5 Ways Of Easily Adding Some Color To B/W Photos

You've got a great black and white conversion you've done of your favorite photo, but you want to add just a splash of color to selected parts of the image to really bring it out, or to come up with a creative blend of black and white AND color. How do you do that?

In this Luminar Neo tutorial, you'll learn 5 ways to selectively add color to parts of your black and white photo using Luminar Neo.

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📌 How to Add Color to a Black & White Photo TOC
0:00 Intro
0:30 Method 1: Use the Sliders in the Black & White tool
1:34 Method 2: Masking on the Black & White Tool
1:47 Erase away the parts you want in color
2:50 Method 3: Using the Toning Tool
4:55 Method 4: Duplicate the layer
7:53 Method 5: Add a colorful image layer

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[FreeWillPhotos]

Thank you for sharing these ideas, and I love that many of the techniques you show are useful in other programs too. Great video!

[robertmeyerson]

I learned a lot from your video. Thanks.

[AXNJXN]

Though artistic, I'm not a huge fan of 'tonal' coloring. That being said, the Havana Flag overlay really made an impactful point for 'overlaying with colors'. Well done. Thank you for the inspiration to consider alternatives.

[richbottarini]

Unfortunately, the masking tools in Neo are far inferior to Lightroom. This is a major weakness. In Lightroom, simply object mask the car, invert and remove saturation to the rest of the image. To modify the colors of the car, again mask and change the tint. Masking is the one major area of Neo that needs to be rethought. They tried to be innovative, but failed, they need to simplify.