Grayscale To Color - Digital Painting Tutorial - Concept Art

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Here is a quick tip on how to turn your grayscale paintings into color so you can continue working on them easier with color. It's a great technique which I've used several times in both character and environment art.
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[@tsorakin]

One other non destructive and very flexible way to do this is by using an Adjustment Layer to add the Gradient Map. This way the map is on its own layer and can be adjusted at any time during the process. Also, it works as a mask so adding color to objects is made much simpler. Look for Adjustment Layers down at the bottom right close to the "delete layer" button and select Gradient Map. The Linear Dodge effect you demonstrated is beautiful. Thank you very much for the helpful tips. *Subscribed*

[@WalidFeghali]

Thanks for the great tip! The reason I -very- rarely use Adjustment layers is because I don't like to have "bridges" when I paint. Meaning I like to go at it naturally and what things I apply on the painting, will then have been applied. However, when it's a big painting, I often use Adjustment layers in the very end of the piece to get it exactly how I want to with curves, sharpening, color grading, and any other effects. Thanks again for your tip. :) Best, W.

[@auroracroft]

Thank you so much for this! So much changes happening in just a simple trick. I learned a lot!

[@kugashira24]

Wow I love these tips tutorial , im in my way for be a ilustrator and is amazing to see this kind of content. Thanks for all

[@Netherlag1]

whoa! That's magic! :D Imma go and try mapping skin tones on a greyscale face I've drawn

[@edgarfernandez3208]

amazing and easy tips!!

[@kblargh]

Excellent tip. Thank you

[@zetaxleung]

I was waiting for the solar flare. Walid loves his solar flares.

[@Bazzabazeman]

solar flares are hot

[@majorgunpowder7609]

@@Bazzabazeman no pun intended

[@bessicaemeral7759]

Thank you so much!! It really helped me a lot!!

[@partypao]

Really helpful!! Thanks for this!!

[@stefdiamant810]

Thank you for all the tutorials you've done, they have been great help for someone new like me! Keep it up!

[@WalidFeghali]

You're very welcome, thank you for your comment! If you want to learn more, check out evenant.com/design-sign-up/ and get more free articles and tutorials. :)

[@maxbagdasarov1311]

great tip! thanks!

[@ArtKO171]

Finally I've found someone (Oberyn) to explain this :) Ty.

[@deanl5022]

Amazing video, thanks!

[@dlf4298]

Fantastic tutorial! Thank you, I always have trouble coloring, I never known I can use this function. This is really helpful, could definitely boost my working efficiency. Thanks again!!

[@WalidFeghali]

Cheers Dai Lin Feng. :) Best, W.

[@MrPardal]

Great Tutorial!

[@vinniciusrosa8284]

Thank you.

[@resikek1207]

NIIIICE, thank you!!!

[@jorendedios4288]

just found out this channel, watched a few vids. and omg this is the exact tutorials i want to watch. very very helpful for a beginner like me. subscribed! many thanks

[@WalidFeghali]

Glad to hear! If you want more free tutorials and articles and stuff for beginners, definitely check out my site www.evenant.com, and go to the design section. :) Subscribe to the Design newsletter for more updates and stuff!

[@Gunnplay]

Thank you. I learned this a few months ago and it is extremely powerful. Gradient maps can also help you understand value and is a quick way to 'try' different color comps. Bravo. 👍

[@WalidFeghali]

Very true. thank you!

[@CelestialxPanda]

Thanks so much bro!

[@oinkards1143]

Woah.

[@lidyklimova9596]

Thank you very much! Your tutorials are interesting, simple and helpful. I was inspired :) I'm experienced in digital painting and I've already known about gradient map (I use the adjustment layer). But your video gave me some new tips - I've learned about linear dodge for example. And thank you for the brashes pack, I'm interested to try it :D

[@WalidFeghali]

That's great to hear. Cheers, Lidy! :)

[@Tyronom]

Now I can paint at night too, thanks!

[@bboylilizzi]

Thanks Walid, that will really help!

[@WalidFeghali]

Great! :) Cheers.

[@maestroroshi1627]

very good

[@reubenhayward6974]

awesome video man! didn't know about this at all

[@WalidFeghali]

Thanks! Hope you got anything useful from it :D

[@sir.periwinkleton262]

dude.... i love you man.. you just solved my problem

[@WalidFeghali]

Aww, love you too. :) Best, W.

[@lolaserre7642]

Very good vidéo, simply, easy to understand and practise, good exemple and explanations :)

[@WalidFeghali]

I appreciate your comment! Thank you. :)

[@JeanPaulAussel-illustrateur]

Merci, très bonne astuce !

[@WalidFeghali]

Merci!

[@roywijnen3833]

Thanks, this video helped a lot! :D

[@WalidFeghali]

Happy it did!

[@realmofaeon6376]

Really good tips thx a lot

[@WalidFeghali]

Cheers! :)

[@mamoon_art4007]

I must try this. Thank you for the tip! :) I think the "greyscale to color" thing is really hard to master! xD

[@WalidFeghali]

Yeah I rarely go from grayscale to color, but rather get to color really quickly in my speedpaintings so I get a more natural look. But this is a quick way to get some color going to continue working!

[@PhatenMosa]

Very nice video! Thank you.

[@WalidFeghali]

Very welcome! :) Enjoy.

[@dlf4298]

I need to watch it twice.

[@WalidFeghali]

That's good! :) Best, W.

[@samh3305]

For people who have clipstudio paint go to edit -> Tonal correction -> Colour balance and Gradient tool are similar to this photoshop tutorial. I have the Pro version so not sure if it will work for the basic one.

[@WalidFeghali]

Thanks for that great tip. Best, W.

[@IamNikkiOne]

thank you :)

[@WalidFeghali]

Cheers!

[@Electrow29]

Thanks for the video helps alot ! And it would be awesome if you could do like a "tree painting tutorial" you know, grass, leaves, everything that's related to plants, as you did well for the rock painting tutorial!

[@WalidFeghali]

That's a good idea! I will do that soon. :) Be sure to subscribe to the design newsletter for updates on that. :) evenant.com/design-sign-up/

[@saeedfarhangian3854]

thank you , good luck

[@WalidFeghali]

Thanks! Good luck you too. Best, W.

[@pumpyourday365]

I start now in digital Rly tnx for this video Rly Rly Rly!!!!

[@WalidFeghali]

Enjoy! :)

[@parivargaming7407]

WHY DID I LEARN ABOUT THIS ONLY NOW ?!?!

[@Souradeep0]

subscribed... :P :P thnx fr the tips... its was very helpful..

[@WalidFeghali]

I'm glad to hear that! Cheers. :)

[@lisamaier9984]

Very Useful tutorial. Thank you. Do you have any tutorial about perspective and concept art? I really need to learn how to apply a grid to hep me when I paint..

[@WalidFeghali]

You can check out my latest video on "Finding The Perspective In Paintings & Photos". You can try to play around with some perspective grids that you get out of that. :) Good luck! W.

[@biancamitchell484]

Hey, this was massively helpful, thank you for this! But also I was just wondering how you brought up the hue/saturation tool? At the moment I can only bringing it up by putting on an adjustment layer, and I wasn't sure if there was something else I could do to adjust it on a specific layer.

[@WalidFeghali]

Can you specify where in the video you mean? But if it's only to bring up the hue/saturation tool whenever, you can press ctrl/cmd + U and that should do it. :) Good luck!

[@biancamitchell484]

Ah Yes that's the one, thank you so much!

[@Tuschi17]

I didn't even know the gradient tool could do that. Awesome! :D

[@WalidFeghali]

It's a great and useful tool! :) Thank you for the comment!

[@LizzySwan]

Amazing video, but the sign up thing is not working, I tried with 2 emails (((

[@dabijasergiu3871]

We.. need to avoid White and Black and use just Grey? :D

[@noahtoftsandbk8070]

Nice video. I am new at photoshop, so I have a question. Why can't I use the gradian map?

[@noahtoftsandbk8070]

Doesn't matter, just found out I was because I was working in 32bit and not 16bit :D

[@WalidFeghali]

Yes a lot of the functionality disappears when you work in 32bit. Never work in that! Only 8 or 16.

[@noahtoftsandbk8070]

Okay thanks ;D

[@TheDemonwolf2198]

Do you use a mouse or a tablet to draw, and if you use a tablet, which one?

[@WalidFeghali]

Yes I use a tablet. For 6 years I had the Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch, but now have upgraded to the Wacom Intuos Pro medium because I had outgrown the smaller one. I have an article on picking your first tablet on my site www.evenant.com :) check design and then basics!

[@lMinxyl]

What is the width and height your using for this image?

[@WalidFeghali]

I believe it was something like 1500x2000. But it doesn't really matter all that much! :)

[@lMinxyl]

Ok thanks! ive been practicing a lot of my concept art on landscape style backdrops so I want to try this more portrait view.