COLORIZE a Black and White Photo Lightroom Tutorial

HARNESS THE SLOW, BULKY ADJUSTMENT BRUSH TO MAKE GLORIOUS COLOR PHOTOS FROM YOUR BLACK AND WHITE SHOTS! | We’ll learn all about tips and tricks of using the Adjustment Brush while we convert this black and white photo to a color shot.

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In this Adobe Lightroom tutorial, we’ll take a black and white photo and use the Adjustment Brush to drop multiple pins and control each segment of the photo to “paint” in color, tone, as well as highlights and shadows to create a realistic-looking color image. We will also cover how to double or triple the power of the adjustment brush by duplicating pins, we’ll talk about auto-masking the Adjustment Brush, and also reduce the overall opacity of an individual pin, and much more! This tutorial is a bit longer than I initially expected it would be, but it’s full of all kinds of info and examples to get you started colorizing your own photos today!

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[shabobchik]

Why has someone clicked dislike... This video does exactly what it says it will. Get a LIFE. This guy is a genius and will save you a fortune in college fees haha. Keep up the good work mate.

[HonorMacDonald]

I don't even use lightroom, and I watched the whole thing. I'm not much of a photographer, mostly a Photoshop pixel jockey, and I clicked this thinking it was probably one of your Photoshop videos, and it was so fascinating I just watched the whole thing. I had no idea you could do so much in Lightroom. Thanks :)

[jsal]

I really like this! I've done some old 40s black & white family photos, but I think I used the HSL filter, which didn't look this good. It seems your method gives you more control and variety in the color. Thanks for doing this.

[Jimmy_Cavallo]

💥💥 Thanks for this inspirational video. The only trouble that I am having with this is that It is guessing what colors everything would actually be. This way is the artists interpretation of colors.

[hurleygreen]

Love this video! I'm having so much fun now changing colors of cars and clothes because of your tips: Thanks!

[TrackStarHD]

You're the best man, never stop doing tutorial !

[anitakerry]

I think your vids are awesome and you make Lightroom fun so a big Thank. You

[BRODOMUHA]

It's easier to colourize in lightroom, than in Photoshop

[jdcr]

Nice man.. keep it up with the good work.

[speel]

Great Tutorial once again Nathaniel...thanks for sharing with us :)

[DjSeanTacos]

It would be really nice to get the same image you used to practice on so we can do it at the same time as you!

[Saoud]

Can you do a tutorial on colorizing black and white photos of people and faces? This was great 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[danielhawryluk]

damn man! I heard photographers say about "impossibility" of this process and then bang! You did that i 20 minutes! Every video you make I am more amezed and I believe more in myself doing stuff like that. Thank you very much!

[stevewalls]

Is there a way to colorize multiple photos at once.... batch editing?

[ahmetzeer]

!!!! Hi Iam Following you From KSA and I Love you soo much Because you are uploading Awesome Tutorials

[sofiaguerrero]

I was trying to do it from my mobile but I don’t understand🤔

[JohnDeir]

Great Tutorial and I use the colorizing feature with the brush with a lot of my floral photos (in the eyes on portraits) to give a little color touch to areas I want to highlight. I get tired of jumping back and forth into PS and try doing as much as I can in LR.
Again, Thanks.

[Korpimaanvalo]

Nice tutorial again! OffTopic I just wonder why some of your videos (like this) there is no sound on my Chrome browser..my soundcard is fine, other youtube videos there is sound, flash is updated and so on...If I use e.g Firefox sound is ok. Just saying:)

[olesiazig]

Hi, i was trying to colorize but what i get the whole pictures blends into just a green color i used, all effects on the water like waves disappear, may be am not doing something right, please help

[reyvincenty]

Slow down, your tutorials are great, but you are speeding through them, give us a chance to follow you