Paint and Brush

As usual, I would ask you to know how to use the paint and brush features in Photoshop. See this picture, is it not amazing? It is a picture of colorful kiwi! In the first exercise, you will learn how to color the kiwis.

Colorful kiwi

Exercise 1 :

1. Download this picture as the original image :
2. Open in Adobe Photoshop. Do Save as “kiwi.PSD”
3. Make it gray scale Mode. (remember the last sessions how to do it). Using “Curves” (Menu Image -> Adjustment -> Curves), lessen the darkness. Double click the layer “Background” so that it becomes “Layer 0″
4. Make new layer. (Menu Layer -> new -> layer). Give name : green.
5. Click the foreground of color tool so that a color panel will come out and you can choose your color.
6. Go to brush tool, click on it. Change the diameter to 13 px (can also bigger) and hardness = 0%
7. Now, your brush is ready. Paint the kiwi. To make it looks natural, change the blending mode to “color burn”. You can find the blending mode scroll down in the top of layer palette (right side). Only if you have problem, follow the video.
8. Do the same way for the other color of kiwis.
9. If you have done will all the kiwis, merge the layers. (Menu layer -> Flatten Image)
10. Now with the selection technique you have learned, make selection to the four kiwis. Click Selection -> inverse, then make it “Clear”
11. Open the original kiwi in Photoshop. Menu Selection ->All. Copy and Paste to your colorful kiwi.
12. In the Layer Panel, drag the layer so that the new colorful kiwi will be in front. Arrange the modified kiwis to cover the original ones. You can also adjust the size by “Transform” tool.
13. Now you get yours. Save as JPG.