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flinn
Joined: 14 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: Color stand out |
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I was wondering how to take a full color pic and then turn it into a black and white of the same thing but also keep some of the color of the original picture...yea sorry i dont know all the lingo...im new to this |
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lasa
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1090
Location: Florida
PS Version: CS
OS: MS XP
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There are many was to do this..
Some ways are more forgiving then others.
Some easy ways are:
1) Grab a black brush and set its mode to COLOR
then paint everything you want to be BW.
2) Duplicate the colored picture. Then desaturate the top layer (Makes it BW). While still on the top layer grab a eraser and erase the object you want to be in color (It will erase it from the top layer and show the color layer below
3)Desaturate the colored image. Then click the History brush (below the regular brush) and paint over everything you want colored. (it paints the color back in)
4) Duplicate the colored image. desaturate the top layer. Click the ADD A VECTOR MASK icon (black square with a white circle at the bottom of the layer pallete). Now with a black brush paint in the color, if you make a mistake change the brush to white and paint in the BW.
There are other ways but these should help,
Good luck,
Lasa
Last edited by lasa on Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:29 am; edited 1 time in total |
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pierreuk
Joined: 04 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:35 am Post subject: |
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No Way, i was just looking to ask the same question, and the search button brought me right to this..
Thanks Lasa, will give it go tonight..
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Rikki
Joined: 31 Aug 2006
Posts: 49
Location: Glasgow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| lasa wrote: | There are many was to do this..
Some ways are more forgiving then others.
Some easy ways are:
1) Grab a black brush and set its mode to COLOR
then paint everything you want to be BW.
2) Duplicate the colored picture. Then desaturate the top layer (Makes it BW). While still on the top layer grab a eraser and erase the object you want to be in color (It will erase it from the top layer and show the color layer below
3)Desaturate the colored image. Then click the History brush (below the regular brush) and paint over everything you want colored. (it paints the color back in)
4) Duplicate the colored image. desaturate the top layer. Click the ADD A VECTOR MASK icon (black square with a white circle at the bottom of the layer pallete). Now with a black brush paint in the color, if you make a mistake change the brush to white and paint in the BW.
There are other ways but these should help,
Good luck,
Lasa |
Or select all you want to remain coloured with the lasso or whatever you choose, select inverse and select "destaurate"
Simple 
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swanseamale47
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: Swansea UK
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I should probably add that desaturate is about the worst way to get a black and white in photoshop, I know it's the easiest for this process, but it's really not the best.
My favorite method it the channel mixer, click the mono box and ajust the sliders, generally I find about 60 red/40 green or there abouts suits my pics (but it does vary with subject colours etc) ideally try to keep the 3 sliders around the 100% total.
Another popular method is the 2 hue/saturation layers, you just add two hue/sat layers, the bottom one you change the blend mode to colour, then on the top one you take the saturation slider all the way down, then you click back on the bottom one and ajust the hue slider, the pics will alter before your eyes, just choose the best setting. Wayne |
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Bazman
Joined: 04 Oct 2006
Posts: 77
Location: United Kingdon
PS Version: CS3
OS: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate
This will turn entire image B/W.
Select the histroy brush tool. 
and paint back in the areas you want colour.
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