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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Software for B/W photos that brings out color in certain objects?Question: Software for B/W photos that brings out color in certain objects!? Does anyone know of the software I can buy where you take your own photos and turn them into black and white or sepia, but then you can enhance certain things like flowers, etc!.!. and bring out the actual color of the flower!.
I hope this makes sense!. It seems to be very popular with photography studios and I want to be able to do it with my own photos at home!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: you can use http://www!.picnik!.com * upload image * click the "create" tab * click "black and white" * "paint" the colored area you wantWww@QuestionHome@Com Use Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements 6!. Here is the procedure: As is true of many procedures in Photoshop, there are several ways of doing selective color!. This is a quick and easy method!. First open your photo in PS of course!. Then go to Layer - Duplicate Layer Click OK Then go to Image - Adjustments - Hue / Saturation Drag the Saturation slider all the way to the left to make the photo black and white!. Click OK Then get the ERASER tool from the tool box on the left side of the screen!. It is usually the next tool under the clone stamp tool!. Just hover your mouse over the tool, and it will say Eraser!. When you have selected the Eraser, go up to the Brush options box at the top of the screen, and click on the downfacing arrow!. Set the Hardness of the brush to 100% so you will have accurate control of selection!. You may also need to raise or lower the brush size to suit!. Erase away any black and white from where you want the color to be revealed!. When done go to Layer - Flatten Image Then just do a Save As to wherever you want to save the photo!. hope this helps you steveWww@QuestionHome@Com One basic technique is to start with a color picture and then create a selection around the object to stay colored!. Then invert the selection and remove the color from this inverse selection!. This is a tutorial with example for Photoshop http://digital-photography!.suite101!.com/!.!.!. the Gimp is free editing software similar to Photoshop that uses the same basic method http://digital-photography!.suite101!.com/!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Steve's right- Photoshop!. There are some cheaper knockoffs out there that claim to be as good as Photoshop, but I've yet to find any to live up to their claim!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |