Top 5 Color Change Photo Manipulations in GIMP

hello and welcome back to another video my name is mike davies and in today's tutorial i'll be showing you the top five color changing photo manipulations using i'm using gim version 2.10.28 which is the latest version of at the time of this tutorial before i get into that don't forget to check out my website at daviesmediadesign.com as always i have tons of video tutorials on here and tons of free software help articles so definitely check that out you can enroll in my 2.10 masterclass from beginner to pro photo editing on udemy and you can get more by becoming a dmd premium member and i'll include a link to this as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video here is the free stock photo i'll be using for today's tutorial from pexels come over here click the down arrow or just hover your mouse over it and i went with the large download just click free download here is the final composition with all five color changes made to it so here is a before here is an after and here it is without the background color change so we'll be changing the color of the hair the eyes the lips the nails and the background so let's get started i'm going to open up my file explorer and here is the photo i downloaded so just click and drag this onto the little wilbur icon here and release it'll ask me if i want to convert this to gimp's native color space i'll hit convert so the first item will change the color of in our photo will be the eyes so we're going to start by zooming in so i'll hold ctrl and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and i'll come over here let's double click and rename this original and hit the enter key and just hit the duplicate icon and we're going to rename this i color hit the enter key so now we've got two versions of our photo over here in the layers panel so hold ctrl zoom in even further so what i'll do now is come over and click and hold that second tool group here and go with the ellipse select tool and i'm just going to click and drag from near the center of the eye while holding the ctrl key and if i hold the shift key you'll see i have this set to fixed aspect ratio with one to one if you don't have that set to that just come over here to the drop down choose aspect ratio and set this to one colon one so that'll give you a perfect circle i'll hold ctrl zoom in a bit more so you can see this has already done a pretty good job of drawing a perfect circle and if i hover my mouse over the sides of the circle i can click and drag these little handles and what i'm doing is just adjusting this until it matches up here with the shape of the eye here the shape of the iris so the eye is not going to be a totally perfect circle but next what i need to do is i need to mask out this area here so anything that is not the iris of the eye so i'll come over here to the third tool group click and hold this and grab the free select tool and over here under mode i'm going to change this to subtract from the current selection you can also just hold the control key but i'll click on this mode here and i'm going to hold control and zoom in so you'll see there's a little negative sign there on my mouse pointer that means i'm in subtract from current selection mode so now i'm just going to drag my mouse across any area of the eyelid that overlaps there and then just bring it back around and connect and now i'll hit the enter key so that will deselect the eyelid from the eye and i'll do the same up top so hold ctrl zoom in and now i'm just going to click and drag my mouse and just bring it back around connect it and hit the enter key so now i need to do that over here with this eye as well so what i'll do is come back over here and grab the ellipse select tool and i'm going to change the mode of this to add to the current selection so now you'll see a little plus sign for my mouse pointer there and i'm just going to once again click towards the center hold control and the shift key and just drag it until it matches that pretty well hold ctrl zoom in with the mouse wheel i can always click inside the middle of this to move this around reposition it and now i'm going to hold the handles out here so click and drag the handle until that matches up and then once again i'll come over here to the free select tool or the lasso tool make sure the mode is set to subtract from the current selection and now i'm just going to hand draw over the eyelid there and connect it hit the enter key and same thing right here and i'll hit the enter key so now i'll hold ctrl and use my mouse wheel to zoom out and you'll see here we now have both eyes selected so come over here to the eye color layer right click and go to add layer mask under initialize layer mask 2 i'll choose selection and click add and so you should see black for all of the area outside these two little selection areas and then it's hard to see right now because this is smaller i can come over to this little triangle menu here click on that and then let's go to preview size and let's go with extra large so we can see a little better there just two white areas here once you have the layer mask hit ctrl shift a to deselect the selection area or go to select none and then you're going to click on the photo so click off of the layer mask you'll see a white outline here around the photo and now we're going to go to colors hue saturation and we're just going to drag the hue slider and you can pretty much drag it to the far left or the far right and just preview the colors that look best or the color that looks closest to what you're going for and i'm going to go with something around green right here you can always click on the individual color layers here or just the individual color and drag any of the values here from these sliders and if you want to come back to the master or in other words you want to come back to editing all the colors just hit master and that will bring you back there so i'm also going to adjust the lightness and you can see too much lightness makes it look really fake i can also darken it if i wanted to so just a tiny bit there and then saturation we can bring that up to bring out more green so there's before there is an after and actually i don't like the lightness so let me just middle click on this with my mouse wheel and i'm just going to hit the backspace key and change that back to zero and now i'm going to click ok so now her eyes are green there's before there is an after and what i can also do is come to colors levels and i can adjust the levels here this is just going to help me bring out the colors a bit more in the eyes and let me come down here to red so there you can see that's enhancing the green a bit there and i'll click ok the second color change photo manipulation i'll do is the lips so we're going to change the color of the lips so once again let's come over to the original and we're just going to hit the duplicate icon and we're going to rename this ellipse color and now i'm going to hold ctrl use my mouse wheel to zoom in for this one i'll grab the paths tool so the shortcut for that is the b key and i'm going to hold ctrl zoom in a bit more so now i'm just going to click to create a node and click and drag and you can see that's going to create curves and we're just going to use these curves with the paths tool to select the lips and you'll see that what i like to do is just click and drag my mouse as i move throughout the image i'll hit ctrl z to back up i actually want to create just one larger curve here instead of a bunch of small ones and if i use the space bar i can move over and i'll click there so i do have to fix this curve so i can come back to this node and just bring the handle in and then come back here to this one hold control use my mouse wheel to zoom out and now we can click and drag and just create another curve there we're going to fix that curve that handle and i'm just going to do both the upper and lower lip simultaneously and we'll come back here just that hold ctrl zoom in with the mouse wheel hold ctrl and click to create a union hold control and then click and drag this handle and hold ctrl zoom out with the mouse wheel so now the lips are selected there with the pass tool so now i'll come over here and in the tool options when you still have the path tool selected it should say selection from path so i'll click that and i'll grab a different tool like the move tool so there you can see the lips are selected now i'll come over here to the lips color layer right click and go to add layer mask under initialize layer mask 2. once again we'll go with selection and click add and i'll hit ctrl shift a to deselect that click here on the original layer and once again we can go to colors hue saturation and we can adjust the colors of the lips so this is the same technique as before you can decrease the saturation which takes out some of the intensity of the color you can increase it and you can play around with individual color channels there that looks fine to me so i'll click ok something else you can do so let's say you don't like how crisp the lines are here between the colors you can come over here and click on the layer mask and go to filters blur gaussian blur and you can just crank this up as much as you need to you'll see what that does is it blends the lines here so you don't want to do it too much because then it's just gonna smudge too much but here's a before here's an after so it just kind of softens those lines maybe i'll do it a bit less and i'll click ok so hold ctrl use my mouse wheel to zoom out the third color change photo manipulation i'll perform here will be changing the hair color so once again we'll come over to the original layer duplicate this and double click to rename it hair color hit the enter key so now i need to select the hair and obviously this part's a little difficult because there's all these hairs sticking out but what i'll do is come over here and click and hold the third tool group and go to foreground select and the first tool that it's going to give you is the lasso tool or the free select tool so we're going to loosely select just the hair you don't have to select all of the hairs that are sticking out but you do want to get the major ones so we're just going to go around all that and then we're going to come down here make sure we circle around the hair there come back up we will keep that darker part of the hair and then we're going to cut in here and just go around the face so we are keeping all of this hair in here nothing else and you do want to get some of this area here because there's some red color that's reflecting onto her skin and i'll just connect that so once that's connected hit the enter key that should take you to the draw foreground mode so you should have a paint brush now and you can decrease the size of the stroke or increase it over here using stroke width and i'll hold ctrl and zoom in a little bit so now i'm just going to select the main parts of the hair and it doesn't matter what foreground color you have right here mine's set to yellow because that's what i have over here so we're just gonna select all the main parts of the hair including this dark part and i'll hold ctrl zoom in and i can use the left or right bracket keys on my keyboard to decrease the size of my brush i'm going to make sure i select all the hair right here so the foreground select tool is going to do most of the work for us but we do want to make the work as easy as possible for the foreground select tool so we're just going to make sure we select some of these hairs here and decreasing the brush again just a couple of small spots out here so it knows that this is part of it as well hold ctrl zoom out we'll also come over here hold ctrl zoom in increase the size of the brush using the right bracket on the keyboard and just get some of this main red hair over here so that should be good enough let me get one more spot there hold ctrl zoom out once you're ready hit the enter key again and now you'll see here it's done a pretty good job of selecting the hair so now i'll hit the enter key one more time and we'll come over here to the hair color layer once we have the selection there right click and go to add layer mask make sure selection is chosen once again hit the add button so there you can see our layer mask is in the shape of the hair so let's hit ctrl shift a to deselect that and we're going to click on the main photo and once again we'll go to colors hue saturation and now we can play around with this so you can see there are a ton of options for what color we can change your hair to and of course you aren't limited by the first color that shows up here because really you can just use this to get a general color so for example if you wanted to go blonde go more on the yellow side and then you can start playing around with things like the lightness and the saturation i'm not gonna lie blonde is one of the harder colors to achieve especially when the model already has dark hair but as i mentioned you can click on an individual color channel there and you can play around with some of the values of that individual color so for example maybe we wanted to take out some of the greenish colors and enhance the red or the yellow color here and we are going to clean up this area right here but for now i'm actually going to reset everything so let me come over here and hit reset and i'm just going to i'm back on the master i'm just going to come back here and go with more of a purple color for the hair like so increase the lightness a tiny bit and the saturation as well and i'll click ok you can also go to colors levels once again and adjust some of the levels here of the hair probably not totally necessary in this case but just another way to sort of tweak the colors here and just the way it looks you can also come over here to each color channel and just sort of tweak these individually you can see we're getting some various shades of purple here so you can really get exact with the type of hair color that you end up with or the quality of the color so there's before and there is an after with these levels adjustments so as i said i wanted to clean this area up so let me hold ctrl zoom in it's going to have some of the color here actually i don't really want to touch any of this stuff but over here i do want to clean this up a bit so what i can do is come over here and click and hold the paintbrush tool and come down here to where it says airbrush and as you can see here the force is turned down that just means the colors are going to come out of the airbrush nice and slowly so let me come up top here and reset my colors to black and white you'll also notice my hardness is turned down pretty low to 23 and i can increase my brush size just a little bit and we're going to make sure we're on the layer mask so anywhere we paint black we'll remove some of the purple anywhere we paint white is going to bring in more purple so just as an example if i started painting this with white you'll see her forehead is going to start changing the purple so let me hit ctrl z i can hit the x key and that's going to switch my colors and hold ctrl and zoom in and i just want to fade this a little bit so we're painting black very slowly around here same with right here i also have the opacity turned down so let me turn that up and the goal is just to make the purple right here a bit less intense and hold ctrl you can also do it right here and i think for the most part that looks pretty good so if i hit ctrl shift j that'll center my image back up and now i'm going to shift click on this eye icon this is the before and then shift click again this is what we're looking at so far so far we've changed the color of the hair eyes and lips next up we're going to change the color of the nails so it'll be the same setup we're going to duplicate this we're going to rename this to nails color hit the enter key but next what we're going to do is hold ctrl zoom in and we're going to turn on the quick mask so i can do that by coming over here and clicking this little icon and that will bring on this sort of red color this overlay and now i'll come over and grab the paint brush tool and i have the size turned down quite a bit and the hardness and the force are also turned down you can probably turn the force up a bit but now hold ctrl zoom in and actually let's increase the hardness slightly as well and just tweak the size of this down a bit and make sure your colors are set to black and white just hit this little button here to reset these to black and white we're going to flip this over to white for now so anywhere you paint white on the quick mask is going to reveal the original colors below and again i'm going to decrease the size of this using the left bracket on my keyboard and now we're going to scroll up and do the same thing here and scroll up and if you paint too much like this you can always hit the x key to switch back to the black color here and whenever you paint black on the quick mask it'll bring the quick mask back over the red overlay and let me just make sure i paint that with white so hold ctrl zoom out once the nails have been selected i'll come over here and toggle the quick mask back off and now you'll see we have a selection area around the nails so come over here right click on the nails color layer and go to add layer mask and i'll choose selection here and click add and hit ctrl shift a to deselect that so once again we're going to change the color of this so i'll come over here to the original photo and go to colors hue saturation and we're just going to tweak these so maybe i'll go with like this aqua color here we can also adjust the lightness so here's before here is an after and i'll click ok so hold ctrl zoom in if you think there's too much of this color going on around the nails too much of a halo you can always go to colors map rotate colors and you can try to find a color that's closest to this this is like a dark blue and maybe narrow the range of colors here and then you can change it to whatever color is inside these arrows so maybe closer to a skin tone there so there's before you can see there's a bit more haloing there's an after that's minimized that quite a bit so now i can come over here and click ok and hold ctrl zoom out and you can always come back to the colors hue saturation after the fact and continue to adjust this the colors will be different each time you use this as you change the original color so there you can see now we're getting more yellows and just tons of colors to choose from there but i'm just going to exit out of there so the last color change photo manipulation i'll show you is the background in this case we have a lot of the same colors going on both in the outfit that the model is wearing so the white sweater here as well as the background itself i'll use a slightly different technique for changing the color of this i will start using the foreground select tool so i'll come over here and grab the foreground select tool from my toolbox and i'll hold ctrl zoom in i'm just going to once again loosely outline the hair but in this case i'm also going to keep these skin tones so i'm just going to go right around here wherever there are skin tone showing and connect that hit the enter key and so the next thing once again is the paintbrush tool so now i'm just going to tell the algorithm here what colors i want to keep as the foreground so make sure it knows we need to keep the face so once i'm ready i'll hit the enter key so here you can see we have the hair and the skin tone selected i can hold ctrl zoom in you may want to select this right here or leave that for after i'm going to leave that for after so i'm just going to hit the enter key and now with the selection area i'm going to come over here and instead of duplicating the original i will click on the original layer but now i'm going to create a new layer and just name this color and make sure it's filled with transparency and click ok now i'm going to right click and go to add layer mask and under initialize layer mask 2 i'll choose selection but this time i'll go with invert mask because i want to keep everything outside of the selection so click add so now you'll see this area here is black which means it's hidden and everything outside will be white so now i'll hit ctrl shift a to deselect that i'll come over here and i'll click on the layer and then i'll come over to the foreground swatch and here you can choose whatever color you want i went with this yellowish color in the original so just sort of drag your mouse get to the yellow area and you can drag this around too you can go with any of the colors in here really i'll just go with this yellow color and click ok and now all i need to do is click and drag this on top of that layer and of course this needs to be faded out so what i can do now is make sure i'm still on this layer come over to layer mode and just scroll down you can pretty much go with either hsl color or lch color so i'll go with hsl color and there you can see it's made everything yellow in the background and i can also adjust this so i can decrease the opacity if i want so i can get that to the right level so there's a couple of things that either are yellow and shouldn't be yellow or the opposite for example the jeans right here are yellow what i'll do is come over here and click on the layer mask hold ctrl and zoom in with my mouse wheel i'm going to reset my colors to black and white and grab my paint brush tool and i'll just increase the size of my paint brush so if i paint black on here that's going to help me bring back the color of the blue jeans there i can hit x to switch back and paint some of that back in and i can hold ctrl zoom in so right here we don't want to be as intense with this so i'm going to come back here click and hold and grab the airbrush tool and now i can paint the yellow back in let me hit control z i could probably turn down the opacity a little bit and the force as well so it comes out a bit more slowly and then just very subtly bring this back in and of course we got a lot of the hand in there so i'll hit the x key to switch to black and just fade that out hold ctrl zoom out and there's our final composition so let me scroll down here's shift click there's a before shift click there is an after alright so that's it for this tutorial hopefully you liked it if you did don't forget to like this video subscribe to my channel and click the bell icon to be notified each time i have a brand new tutorial you can check out any of the links to my resources in the description of the video but thanks for watching and i'll see you next time

Channel: Davies Media Design

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Length: 26min 33sec (1593 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 05 2021