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I have a black and white photo and I want to colorize the face only for a face swap. I do have plenty of color pics of the same face, not sure if I can use them with this. What's the best way to accomplish this? I don't mind taking the time and effort to do a good job
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The error is layers of different size, so best guess is the Input Layers option - should be active and above (not active, not all)
If you have problems just work on the two layers, the B/W image layer and the one above that for the colour patches.
Knowing your love of layer masks, take it one step at a time, do the colouring as a separate process. Then do your face replacement as another operation.
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Thanks Rich, I see what you mean about the lips and the teeth, I can fix that. I guess I'm more wondering why the face skin didn't do very well. In the bottom pic I uploaded I used the Testing re-colorization method and I got fairly decent skin tone, although it colored the complete pic in flesh tone, which is fine, since all I care about is the face skin.
I redid these with no lip color and the skin tone still wasn't good. In my case do I need to color the hair and paint out the background with white to prevent that 'flood fill What is Flood Fill?
I'm glad you took my original pic and painted on it. The way you painted the face skin, is that good enough or do I need to be careful and accurate completely filling on all the face skin?