{"id":18801,"date":"2017-10-13T05:55:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T09:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=18801"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:59:46","slug":"5-strategies-adding-color-back-bw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/18801\/5-strategies-adding-color-back-bw\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Strategies For Adding Color Into B&W Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2)<\/a>
\nThere are as many reasons to add color back into black-and-white photographs as there are ways to do it.<\/p>\n

\"3)<\/a>\"3)<\/a>
\nYou can change the emotional tone of photographs when you add warm or cool tints to them.<\/p>\n

\"2)<\/a>
\nYou can separate areas of a photograph by toning them differently.<\/p>\n

\"5)<\/a>
\nYou can enhance the illusion of volume in a photograph by adding different colors into highlights and shadows; typically highlights are warm and shadows are cool.<\/p>\n

\"3)<\/a>
\nYou can increase volume further by adding gradations of hue in specific regions of a photograph; typically this is done with brushes.<\/p>\n

\"6)<\/a>
\nYou can add still greater realistic complexity by restoring trace amounts of the original color.<\/p>\n

\"1)<\/a>
\nIf you increase the saturation of any of these treatments beyond a low level, you turn black-and-white photographs into color photographs.<\/p>\n

Read more in my Black & White lessons.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nLearn more\u00a0in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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