Are you stuck with those old black and white photos? Well, this tutorial will help you fix those up! Most companies like to keep this information a secret, because this is how they make money, which you can do your-self, many people like to see some memories in color again! You'll also see how to do the "Dreamy effect" most people are curious about. Overall, this is a 'Useful tool' for anything and only takes a beginner to accomplish!

First off, you need a black and white image, this can either be scanned, or found on the net. For this example, I used Elvis, just a random picture I found on the net. Make sure the picture isn't to bright, or else the resulting image won't look as realistic. To darken a picture which is too bright, follow the next step, or skip it and continue with the tutorial.

To darken your images is a really simple step. Click Image,Adjustments,Brightness/Contrast...
Make it so, the lines go from a light grey, to a black. This way you won't have to worry about going out of the lines

Ok, you have your black in white image, ready for coloring. The first thing you need to do is get your 'brush tool', and set it to what you think is a good size, it's all depending. You may need to change the tool size multiple times, to get into small parts, you'll see why, later in the tutorial. Anyways, with the 'brush tool' still selected, change the 'mode' at the top, to 'color'

In case you couldn't find it, it looks like this. (See Left Image)

Alright, the cool thing about this is, it won't change the color of black, this will make it much easier, and realistic. Start coloring in the image, the color will not overlap, so you can layer over it multiple times. Once you have the perfect skin color, you don't need to change it, because it's colorizing the shading as well.
Hopefully, your finished image will turn out like this one shown to the left!

This is somthing I found out, by trying to fix up my webcam picture. At the top click Layer/ Duplicate layer... now click filter/Blur/Gaussian blur... and don't put it too high, just to the point where you can't see the picture. Now in the layer window (Window/Layers) put the opacity down to your liking... looks pretty cool, dosn't it?