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11/24/2013 04:20:20 PM · #1 |
| I'm guessing the answer is probably a "No", but is hand painting/layering colors over a black and white image allowed in advanced editing, or only in Expert? |
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11/24/2013 04:45:29 PM · #2 |
If you're talking about, say, selecting the sky and coloring it blue, that's basically OK. Look at it this way: partial desaturation is perfectly OK, and what you've described is the desaturation of all but a specific area. You do have to be careful that the demarcations between color/no color or color/different color are natural: you can have red lips on a B/W face but you can't make the lips bigger by painting red in a "lip shape", see? That's creating something that wasn't there. You can't just add a rainbow to a sky where no rainbow was, for the same reason.
In general, I'd feel pretty good about changing the colors of things-that-are in whatever way I chose, but I'd be REALLY careful not to do it with an opaque brush that obliterated everything underneath. |
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11/24/2013 11:07:52 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
If you're talking about, say, selecting the sky and coloring it blue, that's basically OK. Look at it this way: partial desaturation is perfectly OK, and what you've described is the desaturation of all but a specific area. You do have to be careful that the demarcations between color/no color or color/different color are natural: you can have red lips on a B/W face but you can't make the lips bigger by painting red in a "lip shape", see? That's creating something that wasn't there. You can't just add a rainbow to a sky where no rainbow was, for the same reason.
In general, I'd feel pretty good about changing the colors of things-that-are in whatever way I chose, but I'd be REALLY careful not to do it with an opaque brush that obliterated everything underneath. |
You can make lips bigger (but not too big) using liquidify so I don't see see why using a different tool would be any different. I think the key issue is are you creating new shapes where none had existed? Of course this is all based on pre-2012 knowledge back when you could make some shape adjustments so perhaps things have changed since then.
Message edited by author 2013-11-25 00:21:14. |
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11/25/2013 01:21:30 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by yanko:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
If you're talking about, say, selecting the sky and coloring it blue, that's basically OK. Look at it this way: partial desaturation is perfectly OK, and what you've described is the desaturation of all but a specific area. You do have to be careful that the demarcations between color/no color or color/different color are natural: you can have red lips on a B/W face but you can't make the lips bigger by painting red in a "lip shape", see? That's creating something that wasn't there. You can't just add a rainbow to a sky where no rainbow was, for the same reason.
In general, I'd feel pretty good about changing the colors of things-that-are in whatever way I chose, but I'd be REALLY careful not to do it with an opaque brush that obliterated everything underneath. |
You can make lips bigger (but not too big) using liquidify so I don't see see why using a different tool would be any different. I think the key issue is are you creating new shapes where none had existed? Of course this is all based on pre-2012 knowledge back when you could make some shape adjustments so perhaps things have changed since then. |
We have solid precedent that we need to color within the lines. Yes, it IS alright to plump the lips a little with liquify, but do it before you color and color within the new lines. That seems to be the current state of things. |
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11/25/2013 08:05:22 AM · #5 |
| Can you show us an example (before and after?) |
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