Thanks Troy 7997

[tumbleweed]

You described the proceedure for leaving color only in designated places in the pic. I tried to do what you did....it makes her eyes look unnaturally blue...she does have intense blue eyes, but this doesn't look real. Did you lessen the intensity of the eye color before you erased?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/tumbleweed5/2005/green5.jpg

[Cash--]

do you have a link to said tutorial/procedure?

[Feihung08]

Here's the link, it's still on the front page of this section....
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=68469

Tumble, the only thing that I can see different in your pic is the fact that her pupils were wide open. And you can also 'desaturate' the blue out a bit to take the bite off.

[troy7997]

I'm really glad that you like the technique! Fortunately my daughter has brown eyes so I don't have to back the color down any, but I would have the same problem if I were to color in her lips. I haven't really tried to address that yet...

It certainly makes for some great closeup shots!

-Troy:D

[Fer]

Cool!

[Wazza]

Nice work.

I once played around with desaturation on certain objects, and leaving colours. I was never one for closeup headshots, as my family isn't into that. But would love to shoot like that. :)

I have a few here:

http://wazz*****scity.com/photos/f_waz_bw_col.jpg
Myself

http://wazz*****scity.com/photos/f_niki_bw.jpg
Girlfriend

http://wazz*****scity.com/photos/f_steve_o.jpg
My friends with the evil drink.

[Feihung08]

Nice work.

I once played around with desaturation on certain objects, and leaving colours. I was never one for closeup headshots, as my family isn't into that. But would love to shoot like that. :)

I have a few here:

http://wazz*****scity.com/photos/f_waz_bw_col.jpg
Myself

http://wazz*****scity.com/photos/f_niki_bw.jpg
Girlfriend

http://wazz*****scity.com/photos/f_steve_o.jpg
My friends with the evil drink.
Good stuff too Wazza! The beach one works best for me as the brown/tan colors are nice and subtle. Mind sharing your technique??

[Wazza]

Well I never knew about that layer, and erase part.
So what I did was use Polyganol Lasso Tool,
select the object
Inverse select (SHIFT + CTRL + I)
And desaturate(SHIFT + CTRL + U)

I'm hopeless with photoshop and layers etc. I only use it to post images online, and get them print ready. And the ones shown above, as a little play around which I did sometime last year.

The beach shot, has credit to my friend Daniel ("rendezvous" at these forums).
I was looking at the wind kite surfers.

[Feihung08]

Well I never knew about that layer, and erase part.
So what I did was use Polyganol Lasso Tool,
select the object
Inverse select (SHIFT + CTRL + I)
And desaturate(SHIFT + CTRL + U)

Well yours is the most straight forward tecnique by far! More detailed work may require something else and I do find it easier myself to 'paint/erase' instead of 'lasso' some things. If you haven't tried it you should......even if you hate it!

[lisa1969]

there are a lot of pics where it works realy well. I found found quite a few ways to do this including using the history brush, which i find works well cos you can adjust how much color you want back. this pic has all the color back.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v122/lisa&lucas/BWpopsmall.jpg

the next one only has color back at about 60 %



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v122/lisa&lucas/homeless2.jpg

[Feihung08]

History brush huh?!?
I've never even used the history brush! How do you use it?

And your pics work very well. I love the red popsicle! Doesn't distract from the boy at all! And the blanket pic would be somewhat drab IMHO if it weren't for the color.

[freddycr]

Love that technique...never used it on people, though..
Looks mighty good !!!

[lisa1969]

i use b&w actions on my pics. but it would work just as easy to desaturate or go layer-duplicate layerthen to image-adjustments-hue/saturation and desaturate as much or as little as you want~then use the history brush on the tool palette. You can adjust to the opacity you want to use. I found it easiest if i am not using 100 opacity to do the whole object i want to bring back the color in w/o lifting the mouse kwim?then it will fade evenly. Once you finish with the history brush go edit~then fade and you can fade the color you have brought back in. then you can adjust the opacity evenly. HTH. D-max is a great B&W action. I hope I can post this but you can find it here http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=6952.

[cactusclay]

I like the blanket pic.

[troy7997]

I like the blanket pic also. I'm going to have to try the history brush. Looks promising! :D

[Feihung08]

i use b&w actions on my pics. but it would work just as easy to desaturate or go layer-duplicate layerthen to image-adjustments-hue/saturation and desaturate as much or as little as you want~then use the history brush on the tool palette. You can adjust to the opacity you want to use. I found it easiest if i am not using 100 opacity to do the whole object i want to bring back the color in w/o lefting the mouse kwim? then you can adjust the opacity evenly. HTH
Cool, thanks for the tip! I'll give that a try too! I love learning new and different ways to manipulate pictures in PS!

[tumbleweed]

I know this is an odd pic. I took it w/ a Canon Power Shot ...point and shoot, so the quality is not great, but I colorized using the layering method: duplicate the image, desaturate the top layer, erase the part you want colorized, and merge the layers down. To me, it's the easiest way to colorize.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/tumbleweed5/black-white-denim-reflectio.jpg