Orange Crayola Stands Alone

[sageone]

I've always wanted to "publish" some sort of B&W photo and highlight some color in it. This is my first attempt at using good old PS to do something artsy. Comments most welcomed.

[darylsrowland]

Hehe that's really effective... I'm gonna have to try that at some point :)

[Mannytkd]

Huh, i'm jealos, i've treid to get tutorials for that kind of work as i want to do it myself, please give us a clue on how you did it?

[sageone]

Pretty simple actually...I copied the entire color image and saved it as another name. Then I removed the color of the original image to make it B&W. Then I went to the new image, used the lasso tool (whatever it is called) to outline the orange crayon. Once I had it selected, I copied it edit/copy...then I went to the B&W image and pasted what I copied. This basically creates a second layer. Layer one is the entire B&W photo and layer two is simply the orange crayon. I then positioned layer two (orange crayon) over the crayon in the B&W photo so that the B&W orange crayon wasn't showing. Then I flatted the image, saved as jpeg...and poof...magic!

[Michaelmjc]

Nice shot, very creative. I think a brighter color like yellow would have made it stand out more. I find the orange kind of dull.

[LadyHawk]

Very nice. Is it me, or are those crayons leaning to the left? Maybe that was part of the plan...

[sageone]

yes, they are slightly to the left...the bookshelf they were on is a bit warped. This is the first shot I ever took with my 300D...before I realized that you also have to pay attention to horizontal and vertical lines when shooting. Nice pick up.

[hollow]

well done. and I like the composition.

[Mannytkd]

I will soon have some shots where i can do this sort of work myself. I have now leant how to do it, but it has to be the right sort of shot i suppose?

[sageone]

I will soon have some shots where i can do this sort of work myself. I have now leant how to do it, but it has to be the right sort of shot i suppose?

It can be any shot you want, but my guess is that you'd want something that has decent colors to work with a something close up with tight composition. Doing a landscape shot similar to this might not work unless it was a red wagon in the middle of a field or something.

[Mannytkd]

I know, i've just done one with a stem of bluebells but it looked bad because while the background had gone to black and white it did'nt look right with the blue of the flowers.

I think it was you who tried to explain to me on how to achieve this effect and i ahve you step by step instructions on how to do it.

Cheers for that and now i can do the effect....
It can be any shot you want, but my guess is that you'd want something that has decent colors to work with a something close up with tight composition. Doing a landscape shot similar to this might not work unless it was a red wagon in the middle of a field or something.