how to colorize an image using HUE/SATURATION.
Before / After


Main source (a picture that I have taken and changed the background to black):
If do you have an image/source Black & White(grayscale), you need to change it to RGB image>mode>RGB:


At the bottom of the layer palette, click at the icon (a ball half white/black) and choose HUE/SATURATION;


Desaturate, moving the saturation slider to the left side


DO NOT CHECK THE COLORIZE now!!!!;


Start painting what do you want with the original color(source color), using a brush tool with set foreground BLACK, due the layer mask is WHITE;

First result;


Now, if a mistake happens, it is easy to fix;

Paint on the mistake with a brush using the set foreground WHITE;

To smooth the paint where you want, decrease the brush hardness and the opacity and paint. The set foreground must be WHITE;

The smooth result;

*** APPLYING OTHER COLORS AT THE WORK ***


At the bottom of the layer palette, click at the icon (a ball half white/black) and choose HUE/SATURATION.


----> CHECK COLORIZE!!!!!!


And move the sliders…


All the image will receive the color that you have chosen;

CTRL + I to invert(return the colors). Now the mask layer becomes BLACK.


Paint what you want with the brush tool, with the set foreground WHITE;

I suggest to write the color name at the Hue/Saturation layer

The same(steps 11/12/13/14) with other color…now green

Paint result;

Now with blue;


Purple;


Brown;

Dark yellow;

The whole work with the layers

If you want to change some color, is very easy. In that case the blue will be changed. Double click at the layer thumbnail;

Now change the Hue --- Saturation --- Lightness

Changed of color result;


FINAL RESULT (without the steps 22/23/24)

Thank You