Selective Coloring in GIMP

[ninjachoco]

please dont get rid if this!!

[Nephiy]

i done this methor step by step and my eyes (which are the things i want to keep the colour ((green))) are some sort of orange, it doesnt make them green .... what can i do?

[BladedVelvet]

@Nephiy I will (hopefully) wind up making an easier vid to follow, it should make things a lot easier to understand. In the mean time you could try opening a new image> duplicate layer> on the new layer click colors> greyscale> choose the average> then go straight to erasing part of the greyscaled image so the color on the bottom layer comes through.

[CH0622]

LMAO @ "average" & "It's alive!!!"

[robynvilade]

Wow, thank you so much! This worked perfectly for me and I now know how to do it. (:

[mominaathar]

@BladedVelvet everything goes smooth until the paintbrush step :( help !

[johnnybaylorn]

I'm not gonna lie;

I already know how to do this to the bone, but now i'm just listening to this to hear you voice. You've got a one of a kind voice that's just pleasent to listen to.

Just lettin you know that ;B

[dddyzgrl804]

so this isnt working for me, everything is good until i go to use the paintbrush and it does nothing... idk whats going on iver tried a hundred times now. suggestions?

[UkGrimeTAKEOVER]

why wont my layer task bar thing fucking open !

[midnightmilo]

brilliant tutorial thankyou

[kidy3k]

your a life savor and i love your voice

[kidy3k]

you are a life savor

[NittanyStamper]

Thank you! Your directions were super simple!

[MegMoggington]

This is really useful. I don't use the technique often so I easily forget how it works, but then I come back onto this and remember.

[theinfamousmrlee]

not only was this HEAPS FASTER than another tutorial i read but it also works much better! thanks heaps ^^

[53Spawn]

1 person followed 26 steps for something so simple ;3

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!

[maggieirene]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! This made it so much easier!!!!

[QuadJunkies]

Well it worked for me on one picture... but now once I get to selecting a brush, NOTHING works for coloring on the areas.

[JuustinKR3W]

THIS FUCKING VOICE IS FUCKIN ME UP !!!!!!!!!

[patton0008]

really helpful! thanks!

[DawnF2010]

yay ....happy face .thank you :)

[Huajuapanweb]

Easy Tutorial :) greetings :) Thanks !

[marleyman14]

Thankyou so much, i would never of figured it out without your help :)

[HeresHowTutorials1]

Ive posted a video response explaining the same tutorial but doing it a slightly different way, so if this isnt working for you try our guide :D

[chikanwan]

Great tutorial. The simplest one I've found so far to selectively colour images.

Thanks.

[206ernesto]

I like your video, I have run across other selective coloring tutorials that are just way too complicated.

Nice job.

[liveing]

thanks you saved me!!

[breana95]

greaaaat works perfectly THANKS:)

[MyLifejazz]

Great Vidd Thanks... Btw ur voice i soooo SEXY!

[shala4life]

hi um layer tool thing thats on the left side of your screen has seemed to dissapear and i dont know how to get it back. by any chance do u know what to do?

[BladedVelvet]

@shala4life Press the tab button on your keyboard :3

[shala4life]

@BladedVelvet what u sed works but im talking about the one that shows the layers

[HaveFunXB]

@BladedVelvet When I press tab O_O The right side >.> Those things dissapear XD And nothing comes up D: Oh and you have an eroticly nice voice ;D

[BladedVelvet]

@HaveFunXB Press tab again. Sometimes it takes me 2-3 presses for the layer and toolbox to come up. And thank you I think xD

[scratchyB13]

@BladedVelvet This isnt working for me

I followed your steps exactly

[codemac2622]

bitch it would have been nice if you would have showed how you put up the layer box of the left side frist.

[shala4life]

@codemac2622 im havin the same problem man

[HeresHowTutorials1]

@shala4life Press ctrl L on your keyboard to get the layer menu back, and check out our tutorial on how to get the same effect in a slightlly different way also using gimp.

[vmknejifan]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! :D Your videos are sooo helpful!

[TheGurnoor09]

THANKS A LOT......

[RicePudden]

TY!!

[charli2316]

i watched another video trying to show me how to do this and i almost gave up till i found this one and was able to do it thanks :)

[coquiangel]

made it look easy

[coupsssss]

thank alot i read up on the tutorial but still don understand thanks to u i now understand it btw sexy voice of urs

[shawndac111]

HUNNY U R THE SHIT I HAVE READ SO MANY THINGS ON HOW TO DO THIS BUT YOU BY FAR ARE THE BEST OMFG KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK YOU ARE AMAZING GIRL

[L4D2802]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I already knew how to do this but over the past few months i've forgotten how to do it. Thanks for the reminder! =D

[shydkid100]

really good vid! even a dumb person could follow these steps and get it right, Thanks

[MissSarah1993]

Thankyou sooooo much for this. I've look at heaps of tutorials, and your is so simple and so easy to understand :)

[monkeymangonewild]

she is thinking so she talks and does not make any sence

[cmgreen4]

by the way, how do you this for more than one color on the same image? After I colored some flowers, I tried coloring skin, but it colors pink (the flowers were pink) ! D:

[cmgreen4]

you're voice is very nice for videos. some tutorials....i just get headaches.

[ReassuringSmile]

I LOOOVE YOU!!!

[TripleRainbowify]

Thanks for this. :) Probably the simplest tutorial I've seen.

[foxyroxi1970]

you are fantastic... thankyou so much for this! worked for me first time with no hassle! do you do any other tutorials on here???

[princesaquil]

I did it...I finally did it!!! :D Your video is very easy and simple to understand. Thank You!

[5618837]

good! thank you :)

[robin06angel]

Thank you so much yours was the shortest and easiest to understand =)

[robin06angel]

Thank you very much yours was the shortest and yet easiest to understand =)

[hodagamal]

Thank you so much for the helpful video! I have a question though. When I try to use the eraser on the edges, it continues to color it with original colors instead of erasing. Do you have a suggestion what I might have done wrong? Thanks!

[Tarisha3331]

Photoshop can be free too!

My brother downloaded Adobe Photoshop cs4..But I'm using gimp..it's easy and u can do the same things like in photoshop... :)

[WeHaveABlackhawkDown]

you have a very relaxing voice :D

[HinatabutterflyLives]

Lmao!

Thanks so much for making this video.

It was simple, I found that besides the simplicity of your explanations,

it was fun to listen to you as well x'3

[Yaya88thegreat]

I tried GIMP and I must say it's indeed a simple tool to manipulate photos..no need of Photoshop and Lightroom..Same level as Photoshop and it's free..

[NamesMars2]

how do you zoom into the picture on a laptop?

[Armeysquad007]

I think this is a great tutorial and thank you so much for sharing it!! As for FiftyFiveguy's remark. I have a friend that is a professional photographer and she paid for PhotoShop and is extremely jealous that I am replicating her professional photos with Gimp so I'd say its a darn good program for being free ;-).

[kayli120191]

great so simple and works :) thank you

[TheCowLover5674]

I did everything you said but i dont have the layers toolbox...How do i get it?

[TheCowLover5674]

Okay so i did everything you said but i dont have that layers toolbox.. How do you get that?

[tinfb]

1 person missed the like button for this beautiful and helpful tutorial

[billps34]

Great tutorial.

[defianted]

Best and easiest tutorial i've tried so far. thank you. ~ ed

[ruthiecutes]

UHM, i cant get the layer box open, i need help

[defianted]

@ruthiecutes re-install GIMP might help.

[missxtabitha]

thanks girl. (: this video helped me a lot.

[capturedink]

Great video. Thanks so much for posting.

[iain173]

Amazing. Works perfectly. Thanks so much for this tutorial.

[bassnerd11]

I did everything step by step and it won't let me do it

[BladedVelvet]

I don't really know what to do about that. It seems that some people are able, and some people aren't, I don't know how to fix that.

[Fiftyfiveguy]

@BladedVelvet GIMP is a terrible program. no offense. but it is free

[BladedVelvet]

@Fiftyfiveguy Eh, GIMP is for those of us that have bills and can't afford the luxury of shelling out 600 bucks for photoshop.

[Fiftyfiveguy]

@BladedVelvet i hear ya, i don't have photoshop for that reason. ive just had lots of problems with the program glitching is all. nice job on the work overall. didn't mean to bash ya :D

[kisha2itachi2]

@BladedVelvet My dad got a computer already with Photoshop in it c:

[206ernesto]

@BladedVelvet ????

not really, is for those who don't make money as photographers and still want to touch up their photos.

why spend that kind of money on a software that will be obsolete in a couple months

[galthea]

@bassnerd11 same here. i did it step by step, the same with photoshop tutorial, just don't work. i don't know. perhaps it's just me.

[tsdoyle2002]

@bassnerd11

you have to make sure you have the correct layer selected.. everytime I have trouble it's because I've either got the wrong layer visible or I've missed something.. Like I will do add layer instead of "duplicate layer".. I hope this helps! And thanks for the Tutorial BladdedVelvet :)

[Natalina1985]

@bassnerd11 Do you have a tablet lappy? That was my problem at first. I can't seem to get GIMP to work with my pen. It'll select things and all that, but it won't *use* the tools. Worked with PS, but can't get it to talk to GIMP.

BladedVelvet, thank you so much for this simple technique! I just used it to create a card for my cousin's wedding, and had already spent at least a half hour watching other vids and reading tuts online, and this was by far the easiest method :) Thanks again!

[JackFowlesJF]

Thanks , this really helped , i did a good picture of Florence welch , just showing the colour of her hair :) 5* and favourited

[exoticcar2009]

Thank you for this tutorial! Fast and simple! 5*

[SimplyUnkown]

Hey so im doing a picture of my eye, up close and im making the iris colored but my eye's arn't blue like i want them. But my moms are, is it possible to replace her iris on my eye? good tutorial either way!!! helped me alot!

Thanks

Mr.Appleseed

[BladedVelvet]

Yup, it's possible, but you could also just re-color the iris. Has a tutorial on that as well :3 changing eye color in gimp.

[BladedVelvet]

If you kept the colored photo on the bottom layer yes.

[babyjaye06]

Thank you SOOO much. I tried other tips/ tutorials, and they had a slew of unnecessary and confusing steps. You helped me alot.

[lima080992]

hey

i can't get the pensel to color? what to do??

[BladedVelvet]

Try using the paintbrush tool and try making it a little bit big, that's the only thing I can think of, and make sure you did the layer mask.

[blindbraille]

Your fantastic lol. I would pay money if everything in life I had to learn could be explained by you. "it's alive!" lol But really this is awesome. I paint and draw in gimp and only rarely mess around with actual photos and this was a fun little thing to experament with. Great video and very simple thank you!

[BladedVelvet]

Ahha :3 thank you kindly. I am sure you will have fun with gimp :3 I do all the time.

[ceceliaocadhain]

a ha...I did do a layer mask, but when I was first setting up the picture I was following some other instructions I found online. They had me copy the image differently....but I've learned my lesson and I'll stick to your videos =] lol thanks a lot

[BladedVelvet]

-chuckles- no problem :3 Usually most any method will get the job done, but they all seem to work differently.

[xoxbrookexoxo]

hey, i used you vidio to make my own pictures, and it worked perfectly thanks!!! but when i tried to open another picture, they layers thing didnt some up, so i couldnt duplicate it or do anything with it. I really need help, because this way is really easy!!

please help me!!!!!!!!!!! thanks

[BladedVelvet]

go to Windows - Dockable Dialogs - Layers :3 It'll bring the layers thing up.

[ceceliaocadhain]

Whenever I start the painting it paints in a transparent pinkish colour instead of bringing out the colour from underneath. What am I doing wrong?

[BladedVelvet]

Did you remember to do a layer mask??

[Zer0Protagonist]

Hi, great tutorial, but I'm actually having the same problem that is described here. I do have a layer mask. I feel like I'm following your instructions to the smallest detail, but I keep putting a garish red coat over my image, rather than bringing out the color underneath. Any help would be appreciated.

[BladedVelvet]

I have no idea how to fix it. It could be we are using different versions of gimp, and thus certain things do differently than they would otherwise. I will redo this with the latest version and see if I have the same issue.

[Zer0Protagonist]

Thanks for responding. I ended up getting it to work. What I did was increase the scale of the paintbrush, and for some reason it worked after that.

Thanks very much for the great tutorial!

[BladedVelvet]

You're welcome :3 I never got mine to do it :p and gratz on figuring it out.

[CUTEABI12]

thank you thank you thank you <3 =][

[brutalman15]

thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!

[TheDDLovatoFans]

thank u !! :)

[defianted]

yes, this has the shortest steps to selective coloring. ..:).....thank you.

[shjacklapidiek]

haha...uhmm.."BladedVelvet"...­thanks for the vid...but this time..for example..a photo is already greyscaled...how do u color a part with another color but not the original color??

[BladedVelvet]

I do have a video that might help with that, look for "Coloring in GIMP Tutorial" it takes a sepia pictures and makes it colored, same principle as greyscale. (if the modes don't work, then keep messing with the modes and opacity until you find what you need)

[shjacklapidiek]

BladedVelvet.......I love you.

[BladedVelvet]

Uhhhm o.o; thank you

[Domo4eva]

thank you.

[gzmnx]

do you need to download the program because i dont want to get any viruses

[BladedVelvet]

Yes you need to download the program, it can be found at gimp (dot) org and I've been using it for years and never contracted a virus from it.

[gzmnx]

is there any special tools you need or can you just do it with ur mouse and computer

please i need to know thank you!

[BladedVelvet]

I just did this with my mouse. I haven't got a tablet yet, so yeah a mouse is all you need.

[YuiTeub49]

How cool, thanks for the tutorial , great vid! ^_^