Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Only selected items are coloured; the rest are black and white.

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Only selected items are coloured; the rest are black and white.

stevong

2006-05-18, 3:18 am

Hi,

I have a coloured photo. In this picture, there is a teddy bear; I
wanted to use photoshop to create make the picture black and white
EXCEPT the teddy bear.

Hence, in the picture, only the teddy bear remains coloured. How to go
about doing that?

Any pointers?

Please advise.

Thanks
Steven

Bill Hilton

2006-05-18, 3:18 am

>stevong writes ...
>
>I have a coloured photo. In this picture, there is a teddy bear; I
>wanted to use photoshop to create make the picture black and white
>EXCEPT the teddy bear.
>Hence, in the picture, only the teddy bear remains coloured. How to go
>about doing that?

Select the bear, select - inverse, adjustment layer of type hue/sat
with sat -100 or adjustment layer of type channel mixer and check
'monochrome' ... there are other ways but these should work easily once
you get the selection of the bear right.

Derek Fountain

2006-05-18, 6:17 am

> Hence, in the picture, only the teddy bear remains coloured. How to go
> about doing that?
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Please advise.

My advice would be don't it. It's such a naff and cliche effect...

Wheeler

2006-07-10, 6:18 pm

"stevong" <stevong@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:1147923646.887831.314500@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a coloured photo. In this picture, there is a teddy bear; I
> wanted to use photoshop to create make the picture black and white
> EXCEPT the teddy bear.
>
> Hence, in the picture, only the teddy bear remains coloured. How to go
> about doing that?
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks
> Steven
>
one way would be :
Image>Mode>Grayscale
then Image>Mode>RGB
use history brush on bear
Wheeler