How do I edit a photo so that it is all black and white except for one color (ex

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1. Two quick and easy way you can do is duplicate 2 copies then click on the word Image scroll to down to the word mode and click on grayscale to change from colour to black &white and save it. for the next colour copy use your patch tools & eraser tools to re-move the flower you need and copy & paste it on the black and white picture but before you can take the colour picture over to the black & white you will need to go back to Image scroll to down to the word mode and click back on RGB colour after doing that just place the flower on top of the black & white one and save it.

2. There is a easier way you can do this make duplicate then use the patch tool brush just below the crop tool to circle the flower go up to edit click on COPY after doing that next click on the word Image scroll to down to the word mode and click on grayscale to change from colour to black &white all the photo will become black & white do not worry remember you did copy it and it still there waiting for you to paste it. Go back Image scroll to down to the word mode Click on RGB colour and go up to edit and click on paste and save it.

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Good Luck.

A lot of the specifics depend on what photo editing software you use. The basic steps are the same though - select what you want to be in color - then turn everything else to greyscale (or desaturate completely).

You can find a tutorial for Photoshop Elements 4.0 on the About Photography website. http://photography.about.com/od/developi...

That's selective color. It is a very popular technique that most photographers find to be boring and trite, but non-photographers still enjoy.

Typically, you do it in Photoshop. This might not be the easiest way, but it is fast for people that use Photoshop as their normal nonsense tool.

Open your image

Copy in a new layer

Go back to your picture (original layer) and desaturate it the way you normally make pictures black and white. You can use channels, or the desaturate button or whatever.

Add a mask to the new layer

"Magnetic Lasso" around the area you want color. Don't worry about getting it perfect.

Switch to the regular lasso

zoom in to an area you messed up with the magnetic

Change lasso to "Add to selection" or "subtract." They are little icons that are pretty obvious.

Clean up with those until you have the area selected.

"Select inverse" Might be under "Edit."

Make sure you have the mask selected, and eraser everything! The selection will now be the only thing in the layer that is still color.

This should only take a moment after you get the hang of it.

Good luck!

In Photoshop: quickmask the area you want to keep color and then desaturate the rest. If it is a b/w print you can use quickmask to select the area you want to tone.

A little more detail HOW TO...

As you learn Photoshop, you will learn to use "layers". This is the major operation you need to understand.

Imagine your image as a stack of transparent layers and shows what is on that layer.

If you make 2 layers of your picture you will have 2 color copies of that image. You need to turn the top one to B&W or "desaturate" it.

Now all you see is a grayscale image, but remember, there is a color one under it. If you could erase the gray over the areas on the top layer you want color, the color of the image underneath would show thru.

use a fine point eraser on the top layer around the areas you want color, it is best to zoom in on the area to the color. After you use the fine point to outline all the color areas, increase the size of the point so you can paint out the rest of the grey inside the area you have outlined.

Thats really all there is to ir. There are more precise ways to do it but you are too much of novice to comprehend... you need more experience with you software.

beaux

It's called Selective Color. There's a program called GIMP that you could use. Instead of me typing how to do it, you could go to this site and see what the process are:

http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/Select...

picnik.com
u can edit ur pics online
to make it all b&w except for 1 part upload ur pic on picnik then go to create then click FOCAL B&W

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