Colorize Photo Online Free Tool - Manual Hue Brush

Recolor the Clothes

In this screen recording, you can see how to recolor this beautiful royal blue ribbed turtleneck sweater with different colors without affecting the girl's face, neck, hair, or the background. We used a small brush size next to the skin of the neck for more precise work, then we enlarged the brush to color the whole sweater faster. The Brush opacity slider was set to 80% to get rich, beautiful colors. As you can see, the ribbed texture, shadows, and highlights remain visible under any color.

It is important to go over the areas until they are fully colored because you cannot overcolor it; it reaches a maximum at some point, so just make sure to apply the brush over every part. When the background is white - like in this image - you can go over the edges of the body and onto the background, since the tool won't color pure black and white areas.

This technique is often used in professional product photography. For example, a model might be photographed wearing a single color dress, and all other available colors are then digitally created using our Colorize tool to save time and production costs.

Recolor the Hair

In this screen recording, you can see how to recolor brown hair to purple in our Colorize Photo Online Free Tool. We chose the Brush opacity of 9% and colored the whole area of the hair with a sharp brush edge.

We used a soft brush edge to color the edges of the hair, especially the hair that falls over the skin of the neck. This makes the color edge look natural and not too sharp. The soft brush edge colored the skin a little bit too, but not as strongly as the hair. This looks perfect because real hair color always reflects a little bit of color onto the skin. It is important to cover those old brown reflections on the skin with the new color very lightly. This is why the soft edge brush mode is so good.

Notice how the texture of the hair, the shadows, and the highlights remain visible under the new color giving it a natural look.

Decolor Parts of the Photo - Create Sin City Effect

When you pick white, black, or gray from our color picker and use the brush, they won't add a new color. Instead, these "colorless" colors will turn the image black and white as you move the brush. This desaturates the areas you want.

In this screen recording, you can see how we created a "Sin City" movie effect using a white brush in our Colorize Photo Online Free Tool. This effect, also called color isolation or the "Pleasantville" effect, makes the whole picture monochrome while keeping one or more areas saturated. After you finish, you can even pick a color and colorize the remaining colorful part even more.

We used a large brush size to decolor the whole image faster. Then we decreased the size of the brush and worked slowly around the lips to avoid decoloring them. If that happens, just click the Undo button and try again. We used a sharp brush edge to create a clear border between the colored and black-and-white areas. You can use this effect on clothes, text, eyes, cars, flowers, or anything you want.

Colorize Objects with Black Background

In this screen recording, you can see how to color a glass heart that has a black background around it. Since this tool cannot color pure black or pure white areas, you can simply paint over the background to cover the edges of the heart properly. The black background will not change. As we mentioned, the tool does not color white areas either, so all the highlights will stay bright white. This makes the recolored object look natural and realistic.

Feel free to experiment with this tool to see how it behaves and how it applies colors with different opacity settings. Please contact us if you have any questions, suggestions, or if you just want to tell us how you used the tool. We would love to hear your feedback!