Using PSP9.
I have a b&w photo of a person wearing several strings of beads on his
neck.
I would like to color just the beads. Each string a different color.
The problem, of course is to select the beads. I played with the magic
wand but it didn't work very well.
How would you go about it? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nathan

Nathan Gutman wrote:
>
> Using PSP9.
> I have a b&w photo of a person wearing several strings of beads on his
> neck.
> I would like to color just the beads. Each string a different color.
> The problem, of course is to select the beads.

It isn't really an "of course" at all. You'd be better off
doing this without selections at all. Try this instead:

1. Open your black and white image.
2. If this option is not greyed out, do Image > Increase Color
Depth > 16 Million Colors.
3. Do Layers > New Raster Layer.
4. In the Layer Palette set the blend mode of the top layer
(the one you just created) to Color (Legacy) or Color.
5. Pick a bead color, select the Paintbrush tool and paint
on the color of the beads on this upper layer. The Color
Blend mode may give you more bright colors than the Legacy
mode.

> I played with the magic
> wand but it didn't work very well.

The Magic Wand worked well but, even though beads are beads,
their brightness was not the same everywhere in the beads.
In other words, your image is not uniform over the beads so
a method of selection based on uniformity won't work.

> How would you go about it? Any ideas?

You might also want to look at this tutorial for some of the
finer points: http://www.willshak.com/photocolor/

> Thanks,
> Nathan

Kris thank you for the tips. I will get busy on that in spite of the
late hour.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:46:00 -0500, Kris Zaklika <kzaklika@jasc.com>
wrote:

>Nathan Gutman wrote: 
>
>It isn't really an "of course" at all. You'd be better off
>doing this without selections at all. Try this instead:
>
>1. Open your black and white image.
>2. If this option is not greyed out, do Image > Increase Color
>   Depth > 16 Million Colors.
>3. Do Layers > New Raster Layer.
>4. In the Layer Palette set the blend mode of the top layer
>   (the one you just created) to Color (Legacy) or Color.
>5. Pick a bead color, select the Paintbrush tool and paint
>   on the color of the beads on this upper layer. The Color
>   Blend mode may give you more bright colors than the Legacy
>   mode.
> 
>
>The Magic Wand worked well but, even though beads are beads,
>their brightness was not the same everywhere in the beads.
>In other words, your image is not uniform over the beads so
>a method of selection based on uniformity won't work.
> 
>
>You might also want to look at this tutorial for some of the
>finer points: http://www.willshak.com/photocolor/
>