Help with PhotoImpact 11

deadarise · Post by **deadarise** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:07 am

hello, i just join in!

I have a picture of my favorite metal band that is black and white, so I wanted to know how to transform it to color ? I saw someone made a tutorial for that and the instruction confused me! I have to click every menu in my PI 11 and can't find it! I saw this from Ulead gallery page and this is what I wanted to do to my picture!

" Remove Moire filter, used the Tone Map and then tinkered with the Contrast & Brightness and Unsharp Mask. Once the black and white image was in relatively good shape, the Colorizer Pen was used at high transparency levels to gently colorize the image. "

I was looking for "tone map" and I don't see it anywhere! is there a shortcut key for PI 11 instead clicking every menu and buttons so I can find it faster!

thanks for the help!

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:22 am

Which work space did you select?

deadarise · Post by **deadarise** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:37 am

you mean My Workspace ? if that is then I select Standard Photo

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:04 am

Have you tried the advanced workspace? Still not sure what you are referring to. Which version of PI was that tut written for? In PI 11, the function you are looking for may be called something totally different. Can you post the link to this tut here?

deadarise · Post by **deadarise** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:46 am

http://www.ulead.com/pi/showcase.htm <-- this is where i saw it and i was looking at this http://www.ulead.com/pi/images/samples/steve4.jpg and this guy who said about how to transform old black and white picture to color..

deadarise · Post by **deadarise** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:47 am

in showcase page, Gallery Entries - Steve Tyner , that's what i'm talking about.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:05 am

I get you. However, that's not a tutorial and it doesn't state the version of PI used.

Got no idea as to where in PI 11 you could find this "Tone Map". Hopefully, another user experienced in that kind of work will come to your rescue.

Did you try to contact Steve Tyner?

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:21 am

I haven't found Tyner's website. I've seen it before but can not locate it now. However here is a tutorial site that talks about the tone maps...

http://www.digital-fotofusion.co.uk/pi/ ... .html#more

Regards

***EDIT***

Found it..http://www.power-photoimpact.com/alterations.htm

Ron P.

deadarise · Post by **deadarise** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:24 am

oh ok

no i have no try to contact Steve Tyner so does he have a website that he made a tut for that ?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:29 am

Thanks for that vidoman, never connected tone maps with histogram. It all makes more sense now.

@ deadarise, you will find this in PI 11, Standard Photo workspace under "Photo" >"Auto-Process" >"Levels"

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:31 am

deadarise wrote:oh ok no i have no try to contact Steve Tyner so does he have a website that he made a tut for that ?

Ooops, you beat me to that one. Don't know if Steve has a tutorial for that on his website

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:35 am

No I couldn't find a tutorial on how he done that...

deadarise · Post by **deadarise** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:23 am

i was searching for "convert black and white to color" in yahoo search and i noticed this site http://www.recolored.com and this is what i want in PI 11 but i know they didn't make that in PI software heh

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:25 am

deadarise wrote:i was searching for "convert black and white to color" in yahoo search and i noticed this site http://www.recolored.com and this is what i want in PI 11 but i know they didn't make that in PI software heh

Obviously not but they do have a trial version. Download it and give it a try

keenart · Post by **keenart** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:27 am

Life Story
http://www.ulead.com/userstory/pi/stevetyner.htm
His Work
http://www.cedesign.net/cedge

When trying to convert B&W to color creating a Tone Map is quite difficult and an art to master. Otherwise you are using the Lasso Tool, using the air Brush or Fill Tool to paint color, and then changing the opacity of the selected area, so the color will appear realistic. Requiring many layers, a difficult process and very time consuming.

You might try the Beta Freeware program you mentioned called Recolored that will colorize B&W's nicely. The commercial version is $49.

Here is the Recorlored Beta Freeware download:
http://www.photo-freeware.net/recolored.php