Image Colouration in Adobe Photoshop: A Digital Painting Technique for Transforming Grayscale Photographs into Colour Mode

摘要

Digital Photography as a modern trend in the photographic industry offers a wide range of software for editing and enhancing visual qualities of hue, colour saturation, vibrancy, colour balance, exposure and gamma correction among many others in images. Most of this graphic application software is also equipped with tools for transforming grayscale photographs into colour. This photographic exercise, however, requires artistic and technological expertise to accomplish. Adobe Photoshop, one of the most popular software for digital imaging among graphic artists in Ghana, offers a flexible scheme for transforming grayscale photographs into colour, even though many users of the software in Ghana are not conversant with this scheme. This paper, which is a practice-led research, is written to demonstrate the fundamental editing procedures and skills, to help equip digital photographers in Ghana with the capacity and the technical know-how for grayscale image colouration. The authors have illustratively explained the techniques using the design-based and descriptive methods to simplify the procedures for easy grasping by all categories of digital photographers.