With my Fade dialog box still open (before clicking OK to close it after changing the blend mode to Color) I'm going to bring back just a hint of color to my photo by reducing the opacity value of the desaturation adjustment using the Opacity option in the Fade dialog box.
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This "bonus step" as I call it is completely optional but it only takes an extra second or two and is a nice effect. Then simply change the blend mode from Normal to Color, click OK, and you're done! Bonus Step: Bring Back A Hint Of Color Shift+Ctrl+F (Win) / Shift+Command+F (Mac) to bring up the Fade command Shift+Ctrl+U (Win) / Shift+Command+U (Mac) to desaturate the image If you use the keyboard shortcuts, it's simply a matter of pressing:Ĭtrl+J (Win) / Command + J (Mac) to duplicate the Background layer Using these quick and easy steps, getting a fast black and white conversion of a color photo doesn't have to mean poor quality. Exceeding the limit, your photos will be compressed automatically. works best with photos less than 1200x1200px. The final black and white conversion result. Simply drag and drop an old black and white photo to this AI colorizer or click on the 'Upload' icon to select a photo from your device. Select Color way down near the very bottom of the drop down list. These are the exact same blend modes we'd normally find in the Layers palette, but here, rather than affecting layers, they're affecting how the last adjustment we applied is going to interact with the image. For now, we'll leave the opacity at 100% and only concern ourselves with the blend mode (see the 'Bonus Step' at the end of this tutorial for a look at how and why you may want to lower the opacity value).Ĭlick the down-pointing arrow beside the word Normal to bring up a list of blend modes. The Fade dialog box gives us two options - changing the opacity of the adjustment we just applied to the image and changing the blend mode of the adjustment. When you select "Fade Desaturate", the Fade dialog box appears. Then, without doing anything after that, go up to the Edit menu and select the Fade option. If the Fade command is grayed out when you go to select it, it's because you've gone and done something else after desaturating the image before you went up to the Edit menu, so you'll need to undo your steps by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Z (Win) or Command+Option+Z (Mac) until you get to the step just before desaturating the image and then desaturate it again.
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If we had just applied the Unsharp Mask filter, for example, it would say "Fade Unsharp Mask". It says "Fade Desaturate" because we just desaturated the image. This option is really just called "Fade".