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  COLORIZATION 1. Open ablack and white picture. 2. Convert the image to RGB color. Image > Mode > RGB color. 3. For Sepia photos: a. Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Click on the half-white icon at the top of the layers palette. Choose Hue/Saturation. Photoshop adds a layer called Hue/Saturation 1 and displays the Hue/Saturation dialog box. b. Turn on the colorization check box. Photoshop will then turn the Hue to 0 degrees and the Saturation to 25% (if the foreground and background colors are at the default colors of black and white). c. Experiment with different hue and saturation settings. If you find a setting that you like, use it. Otherwise, try setting Hue at 40 degrees and Saturation at 30%. d. Click OK. 4. For Colorized photos: a. Create a new layer that will contain your colors. Click on the Create new layer icon which is to the left of the half-white icon. Photoshop will add a new layer called Layer 1. You can rename this layer Colors if you wish. b. Change Normal to Vivid Light and change Opacity to a value between 50 and 60 percent. c. Select the color to use. Click on the foreground color indicator at the bottom of the Photoshop Toolbox. Select your foreground color from the Color Picker window that appears and click OK. d. Select the Brush Tool and size the brush according to area that you will be coloring. Brush over the area to be colored by dragging over the area. e. For each new color, select the color from the Color Picker and adjust the brush size according to the new area to be colored and brush over the area. 5. If you wish to save your sepia or colorized picture, select Save As from the File menu and use a new name for the file name so you can keep the original as well as the colorized photo. If you select the Photoshop file format, all of the layers will be kept. If you are going to print or e-mail the photo, flatten your photo before you save it. You can flatten a picture by clicking on MORE on the Layers Palette and then clicking on Flatten Image or you can click on Layer on the Menu Bar and chose Flatten Image from the Layer Menu. If you forget to flatten a photo before you start to save it, you can change the file format to JPEG in the Save As window and Photoshop will prompt you to flatten it.