How To Give Your Photos a Cool Retro Analog Effect

Back in the days of analog photography imperfections were part of the job. Color washes, light leaks, vignettes and blurs were all common problems that appeared during the processing of your film, particularly from cheap cameras such as the Holga, or simply down to human error. While these problems don’t affect digital cameras, we can recreate the cool effects in Photoshop to give our shots that cool lo-fi retro effect.
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How to colorize black and white photos

In this Tutorial we will learn how to colorize black and white photos



In this tutorial i will mostly use PEN TOOL
Open your image in Photoshop, i will use above image
Am going to colorize my Image in parts starting with the hat then the cloth and shoes then lastly the body

HAT
In tool palette select PEN tool and start selecting over the hat, as per below
After selecting the Hat then right click and select Make selection




Set Feather Radius to 2.5 or at least 0



Go to  Image - Saturation - Hue/Saturation
In Hue/Saturation make sure Colorize is checked
Play with it until you get the color you like




 Using same Procedures now select the cloth colorize and shoes colorize
Don't forget to create new layer for each part you select so that you make apply changes perfectly 

 Lastly lets see how to colorize the body

Colorize forebackground as per below




Make selection on body parts that are not covered with cloth,
Make sure eyes and lips are not colored 
Make selection then create new layer

Select Paint Bucked Tool and paint over body parts
Then change Blending to Color and play with Opacity till you get desired outcome



 Use previous method to select and colorize the lips and ring



Well, that's it