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Another way to do it would be to duplicate a layer of the same picture in black and white on top of the original color layer, and use the eraser to erase the irises of the eyes in the b/w layer so that the original eye color shows through!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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They're taking pictures in color and then converting part of the image to greyscale!. This can be done with most photo editing software to some degree!.

1!. Select the part(s) you want left in color
2!. Invert the selection!.
3!. Convert the selected area to black-and-white (or de-saturate)!.
4!. Remove the selection!. Ta da!.

Some cameras can do this when taking the picture, but I'm not sure what they are!. You essentially pick a color and it leaves that color alone while the rest of the picture is in black-and-white!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It's digital not true black and white!. They have changed their colored image black and white then they layer and color in photoshop!. If you don't have photoshop, check out a book store go to the photography section and skim through photoshop books they will give you step by step instructions every photoshop is diffrent!. hope that helps!! It would be called colorizationWww@QuestionHome@Com

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you have to create a mask and you just make that layer whatever color you want and change the opacity to where the detail can still be seen!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It is done in photoshop!. you can desaturate the picture and use the history brush to paint the color back in!. I would be glad to do this for you if you would like!. email me krazyassylum221@yahoo!.comWww@QuestionHome@Com

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My own, first reaction is to suggest that you don't do this, or to be fair to new photoshoppers (if someone works in a shop they are a smith or a retailer, so maybe the correct known is Photosmith or Photoretailer!?) or photosmiths, learn how to create this look so that you know why it's often something to avoid!. Selective colour in this sense can often be very jarring, it's obviously manipulated and in my opinion unless you're looking to break a fourth wall you may prefer something else!.

I'd like to explain a technique that is a simple desaturation process that can leave stunning results!.

1!. First of all- let's assume that you've done a portrait shoot of one or two people and you've only thought about what digitial processing you want to do after the event!. I often work like this and let the picture 'speak to me' and in so doing self selecting the processing that it needs!. The alternative of course is to capture scenes that would be best suited to the process that you'll put the image through!. A good example of this is the 60s shoot that I did, I had a fair idea that I'd be desaturating the colours in this way and tried to ensure that the mood and lighting was just right!. I think that's why the final images work so well!. However, we're going to go with the first assumption and I recommend choosing a picture from your set!.

2!. Making the selection - not all images will suit desaturation, it's like black & white and colour - different images call for different processing!. I find that desaturation creates a gentle innocence, makes the scene look a little dated or perhaps from a time gone by!. If you were wearing a contemporary ball gown I wouldn't suggest desaturation, however, if you were wearing perhaps a vintage dress or vintage suit then it would probably look fantastic!. Once you've opened your image select the whole image and create a copy of that scene on a new layer!. I'll come back to layers another time, for these purposes it just means that you'll be working on a clone so that if anything goes wrong that you can't repair you can go back to your original layer!. For now select Layer 1 and we can begin!.

3!. Treat the picture normally - although you're going to be playing around with the colours in the image I always start by making the adjustments as though it was going to be presented without any effects!. For me these usual steps are "apple+M" where I change the gradient to a gentle s-shape and then treat each colour separately, check the preview box so that you can see what affect your changes are having on your image!. My preference is to use "curves" to adjust the colour tones separately, I've seen others use "hue/saturation" and I think it comes down to personal preference!. Once the basic colour correction is applied I'll then check the levels and tweak where necessary!. As desaturation is going to mute the image you'll be returning to this in a moment so don't go too far with the levels at this stage!.
4!. Desaturate the picture</span> - by selecting "hue/saturation" you will be presented by three sliding bars, for this you can ignore the first and third, before beginning ensure that the preview box is checked so that you can judge the changes in your image!. If at any time you go too far you can bring the slider back to 0, or select cancel and the image will revert to how it was before you took this step!. If you concentrate on the middle slider and bring it about half way across to the left, have a look at the picture!. Depending on the shot and how it was taken this might not be far enough, too far or just perfect!. Bear in mind that the shadows in this will probably appear a little grey and the image will lack punch, don't worry about that for now, just be sure that you like the colours as they are

5!. Back to black - once more select "curves" and adjust the curves, as I've already done this to the picture once before what I normally do is bring the lower left point on the gradient in by about one block, maybe a block and a half (behind the curve line is a guideline made up of a grid of boxes)!. Depending on the picture and the changes you made you may find it useful to revisit the levels and gently pinch them in a bit to boost the highlights or darken the shadows a little more!. This isn't always necessary after the second go with "curves", however!.

6!. Squash it - if you're happy with the way the image looks go to the 'Layer' tab and select 'Flatten Image', this will then combine all the layers (your original and layer 1), as we have made other layers or made any choices to affect layer interaction Layer 1 will essentially replace the original entirely!. I like to check the final image with my starting point and to do this I use the history scroll to spin right back to 'Open image' - click on that, wait for it to change and then zoom back to the current action on the history scroll and watch as it shows you what you've done!. I suggest you save the image just before messing around with the history scroll though, just in case!.

And there you are, you have desaturated your image, it's not as obvious as the selective colour option but I hope you like the way it looks!. There are other tweaks and changes that can be made but I'll go through these options, that can be used with any style of processing, in another post!.

Good luck and happy photo-smithing!


If you do want to know how to do the selective colour thing follow the steps up to 4 and instead of stopping in the middle go all the way to the left!. Follow point 5 to get the tones right!. Then, you deviate from the rest of the guide, select the eraser tool and zoom in on the area that you would like to see in colur and simply erase the black and white image on top of it to reveal the image underneath!. There are fancier ways of doing this with masks and with the lasso but if it's only a small area that you would like to see in colour this shoud suffice!. If you find that the colour in the original is a little weak then select the original layer and repeat step 3 and this should revive the coloursWww@QuestionHome@Com

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