Photo Color Correction

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

Single-Color Digital Imaging

Certain images look cool in a single color. Photo montages sometimes have too much going on and look too busy. Solve the problem and create balance by turning them into black-and-white graphics or single-color images. If your original picture is in black and white and you want some color, check out the Colorize feature in Photoshop.

Layer > New > Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation

Colorize

Hue: 190

Saturation: 50

Lightness: 0

Surf or move the slider in increments of 10 with the Shift-Arrow key for both Hue and Saturation to find alternate or perfect colors and shades.

Below is the surfing picture with Saturation jacked up to the highest (100). This example shows you how much an image can be changed. The saturation is probably more than what looks good here, but many images online have saturation which is less than what looks best.

Usually images look bland if the Saturation is below 50.

Moving the Saturation to 0 turns the image into black and white.

Changing the Lightness setting doesn't often help much.

Sometimes converting the image into a single color will reduce the file size.