COLORIZING AN ANTIQUE DELIVERY TRUCK
In this tutorial, we’re going to colorize a black-and-white photo of an old Coca-Cola delivery truck. First,
I needed to find some reference images for the original colors on the truck, so I searched online for
images of Coca-Cola delivery trucks from 1920, the year of the marking on the photo. I was unable to find
the exact truck, but I did discover that the majority of them were red at that time. I’m going to colorize the
truck based on the two trucks shown here and here, as they’re the closest in shape and resemblance
to the one in the photo with which we’ll be working.STEP ONE: You can find the
image that we’re using in this
tutorial by clicking here. After
opening it in Photoshop, we
need to make sure the image
is in RGB Color mode or else
it won’t colorize, so go to
Image>Mode>RGB Color. Drag
the Background layer to the
Create a New Layer icon (+)
at the bottom of the Layers
panel to duplicate it, and then
add a new blank layer.DEB PIETI
PHOTO EFFECTS