Using paint shop how do I keep one part of a photo in color while the rest of th

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I love all of the photos where one flower or a childs lips are still in color while the rest of the photo is black and white or sepia, and I just cant seem to figure it out even after days of "playing" with it, I am using paint shop pro and photoscape to try and finger it out but I'm just not getting the result that I am looking for if anyone can please help out I would greatly appreciate it !!?!!?!!? Thanks in advance!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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this takes about 1 minute to do!.!.!. but only after a bit of practice, and as ever, theres many ways to achieve the same result!. this is my way, and ive used psp since 3!.04, and im now on x2!.!.!.

put a mask around the subject using the lasso tool just do a rough chop, copy it to the clipboard!.

now send the image B&W, then increase colours back to 16!.8 and paste the chop back where it was, but on a new layer!. (so paste as new layer)

then using the eraser, and lots of do/undo you feather the colour insert
till you cant see the join! (you can also adjust each layer independantly)

you can of course, paste the clipboard as new image, and feather it there against a white background!.!.!. i say this takes me a minute or so to do, but ive done it thousands of times!.!.!. i remember it taking me hours!.!. but use different wands!. dont bother with freehand, its too fiddly!. straight edge and feather, or use edge seeker, which works great on hair!.!.!. and persevere!.

the biggest ive done to date had 15 layers, of 250megs per!.!.!. that took me 2 days!.!.!. but, you cant see any joins,and 350 kids look like they were all stood in front of their new school!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

There are a # of ways, but I think this is the easyist!.!.!.!.

Open your flower picture in PSP and make a copy of it!.

Turn 1 image into a Gray Scale (make it a Black n White)!.!.

Now, adjust color, tone, contrast of EACH pics, one at a time!. Get the B&W looking as you want, and in the color one, get the flowers as you want (of course the whole image will be changed too but don't worry, just make the flowers look as you want)!.

Zoom in on each pic, 1 at a time until you have just the flowers in a window box of their own and have these 2 windows side by side!. One is color and one is B&W!.

Mouse over into the color pic and pick the Clone Brush and click on the flowers, then mouse over to the B&W pick and start "painting" (Cloning) the color in!.!.

You may want to use the Precision Cursor option to help in keeping things in line, but just cloning the color into a B&W image of the same thing is the easiest I have ever found!.!.!.!.

Bob - TucsonWww@QuestionHome@Com