selective color

Jm Photography · 25th of August 2009 (Tue)

I forgot how to make an image have certain parts in color and the rest black and white.
a girl i know wants her eyes in color and the rest in b&w, can someone give me an easy but nice looking way to get this done?

Radtech1 · 25th of August 2009 (Tue)

For a PS Nub-

1) Copy the image into a second layer, from the layers palate.

2) Desaturate that layer using whatever mono conversion process is your favorite, so it is monochrome. If done correctly, you should have a Background layer that is color and a top layer (called Background Copy) that is monochrome.

3) Using the ERASER tool, erase away the eyes from the mono layer revealing the color eyes on the layer below. (TO try to make an easy to understand metaphor - think of paint. Here you are scraping away the gray paint -the top layer- so as to show the colored paint hidden below.)

4) Flatten.

*Oh, by the way, there are currently 209,140 members on POTN. So that means there are 209,140 different ways of doing this. Each member thinks their way is the best. As other posts tell you "No, no no - don't do it that way, do it this way..." then you need to go with what makes sense to you.

Rad

René Damkot · 25th of August 2009 (Tue)

I'll make the first "No, no no - don't do it that way" post

Desaturate is about the worst way imaginable to go black and white. Just wrote about that on my blog.

One simple way:

25th of August 2009 (Tue)	#1
Jm Photography Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: STL MIssouri Area Posts: 625 IMAGE EDITING OK	selective color I forgot how to make an image have certain parts in color and the rest black and white. a girl i know wants her eyes in color and the rest in b&w, can someone give me an easy but nice looking way to get this done? __________________ http://jmphotography09.deviantart.com/

25th of August 2009 (Tue)	#2
Radtech1 Everlasting Gobstopper Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Trantor Posts: 6,247 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: selective color For a PS Nub- 1) Copy the image into a second layer, from the layers palate. 2) Desaturate that layer *using whatever mono conversion process is your favorite, so it is monochrome. If done correctly, you should have a Background layer that is color and a top layer (called Background Copy) that is monochrome. 3) Using the ERASER tool, erase away the eyes from the mono layer revealing the color eyes on the layer below. (TO try to make an easy to understand metaphor - think of paint. Here you are scraping away the gray paint -the top layer- so as to show the colored paint hidden below.) 4) Flatten. Oh, by the way, there are currently 209,140 members on POTN. So that means there are 209,140 different ways of doing this. Each member thinks their way is the best. As other posts tell you "No, no no - don't do it that way, do it this way..." then you need to go with what makes sense to you. Rad __________________ . . "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." – Helen Keller Last edited by Radtech1 : 25th of August 2009 (Tue) at 10:56. Reason: To add emphasis on flexablilty of mono conversion.

25th of August 2009 (Tue)	#3
René Damkot Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: enschede, netherlands Posts: 39,513 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: selective color I'll make the first "No, no no - don't do it that way" post Desaturate is about the worst way imaginable to go black and white. Just wrote about that on my blog. One simple way: __________________ "I think the idea of art kills creativity" - Douglas Adams Why Color Management. Color Problems? Click here. MySpace Get Colormanaged Twitter PERSONAL MESSAGING REGARDING SELLING OR BUYING ITEMS WITH MEMBERS WHO HAVE NO POSTS IN FORUMS AND/OR WHO YOU DO NOT KNOW FROM FORUMS IS HEREBY DECLARED STRICTLY STUPID AND YOU WILL GET BURNED. Last edited by René Damkot : 25th of August 2009 (Tue) at 10:56.

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