Black and White w/ one item colored?

Homebrew

HELP...

I know how to get a photo into black and white mode, But I've seen people add color to , say: a flower, or lips, or something special within the picture.

I have a copy of element v.8

Obviously, I have alot to learn.

Thanks in advance.

cheers!:D

Richard

Hi Homebrew and welcome to Dgrin . I moved your post to Finishing School, where I think you'll get a better response. Don't be surprised if some people tell you that you shouldn't do selective color even if you know how.

jaharris1001

an easy way to do it it to take your color photo to photoshop and modify as you like, then make a duplicate layer, convert that duplicate layer to b&w, whatever method you use, then take your eraser tool and go over the area that you want the color to shine through, flower or whatever, the underlying layer will come through in color where your eraser was applied,, have fun

Jeroen

Take a colour photo.
Add a Black&White adjustment layer.
Block the part of the photo in that B&W layer by brushing black on it's mask.
That masked part will become coloured again.

Homebrew

Jeroen wrote:

Take a colour photo.
Add a Black&White adjustment layer.
Block the part of the photo in that B&W layer by brushing black on it's mask.
That masked part will become coloured again.

Thanks everyone..................I'll give it a try next time I have some free time on the PC..

Great Site!

pathfinder

There is always more than just one way to perform a task in PS.

For selective color, I use ctrl-J to create a new layer from the background layer, and convert this new layer to B&W via the technique you prefer, Channel Mixer or B/W adjustment layer.

I then select the upper layer with the History brush connected to the background layer, and paint back in the original color. Not that much different from the eraser tool - just seems easier to control in my hands.

r00t4rd3d

I use a selection tool and freehand select the bike , copy it and paste it onto the B/W.

Original :



Bike cropped out :



Original to B/W :



Bike pasted on B/W as new layer , complete :

rdalland

r00t4rd3d wrote:

I use a selection tool and freehand select the bike , copy it and paste it onto the B/W.

I use the selection tool as well. I usually just "invert" the selection, and convert that to black and white. This leaves my original selection in color.

Here's a quick sample;



Are there any real advantages to working in layers in this case?

r00t4rd3d

Well when you paste something on as a new layer you can clean it up alittle better if it needs it. Notice in between the spokes in my cropped out motorcycle(pic #2) , you can still see green grass. Now cause its a new layer I just used the eraser tool to go and clean out in between the spokes instead of using the selection tool which would take for ever.

With some objects the select and invert method will work fine , but if the object has holes threw it where you should be able to see B/W threw it , I find layers works the best.

I hope you kinda get what I mean.

rdalland

r00t4rd3d wrote:

I hope you kinda get what I mean.

I see what you mean.

I usually use shift and the magic wand to add to the selection in the case of spokes, etc.

My attempts have been kind of "quick and dirty". I see where using layers will allow me to clean things up.