Chocolate Girl
10 Feb 2008



It is not always the case of brining those old photos to life by adding colour and restoring the scratches and stains. Sometime it is nice to work the other way. Go back in time and see what we get. This is a very easy process in Photoshop and can be achieved by using only two image adjustments, i.e. Desaturate and Hue/Saturation.

    Go to Photoshop and open your original colour image.
    • Go to Image Adjustments and apply Desaturate.
    • Go to Image Adjustments again and click on Hue/Saturation
    • Make sure the Colorize is ticked.
    • Use Hue around 33 and Saturation around 22, and keep the lightness at 0.
    • Enjoy your new old picture!

    The image used in this work is a painting originally by Liotard, Jean-Etienne called The Chocolate-Girl c. 1743-45.