Bring Color to Your Photo Using Photoshop

Color brings life to your photo. Colors immediately draws people’s attention and most of the time we uses color as a way to communicate a message.

If you feel that your picture is dull and needs some life then you can bring life to it. You can be artistic just by adding color. You can do all this by using Photoshop to edit your picture.

Now, in this tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to bring color to your picture. It’s only going to be basic because I want to make it easier to follow for the beginners.

To start, open your Photoshop then go to File and select Open, after that choose the picture you wish to edit.

First, make the picture or the image darker by going to Image then select Adjustment then go to Levels. Next you will see a dialog box then move the black slider to the right to make the image darker.

After that, duplicate the photo by going to layer palette then drag the image layer to Create New Layer icon or to make it easier just press Ctrl + J. Once you duplicate the photo turn the layer to black and white. In that way, it will make the photo more contrast.

• Go to Image then Adjustment and select Hue/ Saturation.

Once again go back to the Levels; just repeat the above mention steps to create the photo darker, but you can move the other slider to make adjustments. Afterward, change the blending mode of the image to Screen.

• Go to Layer Palette located at the right side tool menu then at the top you will see a drop down box then select Screen.

Now, you can see that the image became brighter and different. After that, create a new layer and change the foreground color and background color to blue and light blue.

• Go to Layer Palette then select the Create New Layer icon.


• Then go to the right side tool menu and look for the two squares over lapping each other. Click the square and change the color.

Next, random clouds to the layer.

• Go to Filter then click Render and select Clouds

To apply the layer’s color to the layer below change the blending mode to Overlay.

• Go to the layer Palette then at the top you will see a drop down box then select Overlay.

Then make the entire layer as one. You can flatten the layer or press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E to get the result of all the underneath layers.

• To flatten the image layer, go to Layer then Flatten Image.

After that, change the blending mode of the image to softer light. Just repeat the step on how to change the blending mode. And lastly, change the brightness and contrast mode of your photo. Just go to Image then Adjustment and select Brightness/ Contract. Feel free to adjust, once you see that it looks good then click on Ok.

If you want a better result, just experiment with the tools on your Photoshop and keep on practicing.