• Adobe After Effects

  Painting Black & White in Color

  Posted by Y. Bar on January 11, 2010 at 3:20 pm

  Hello,

  Can anyone suggest me a way to color black & white footage ?
  The original footage is classical animation which has a lot of B&W tones, and I would like to color it in a way which will be close to monochromatic with maybe 4-5 different hues.
  I am still searching for the right look, so I am not very specific about what I want, I am open to different suggestions to colorize this footage.

  Thank you,
  Yaron.

  Steve Roberts replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steve Roberts

  January 11, 2010 at 3:44 pm

  You could mess with Colorama or rotoscope as in this tutorial.

  Colorama makes sure that a specific shade of gray always becomes a specific color. Rotoscoping ensures that a specific area (say, a hat) becomes a specific color, but it’s a tedious process. Colorama might work with your footage ….

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