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  • How do I get a single Colour on a black and white pic

    Posted by John Harding on 4 March 2013 at 17:37

    Hi All – I think I may have asked this before but how do you get a single colour to be retained in a pictrure and fade the rest of the image to black and white?

    example given, but for my client i have a head and shoulders portrait shot and want to retain colour in the face and hair whilst fading the clothing and background to B/W hope that makes sense.

    I have flexi/corel/signlab/illy and Photoslob 😀

    Thanks for looking

    John


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    Glenn Sharp replied 12 years, 8 months ago 7 Members · 10 Replies
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  • Robert Walker

    Member
    4 March 2013 at 19:23

    In photoshop,
    Convert to grey scale then use history brush tool.
    You can make a mask to make it easier

  • Jamie Laird

    Member
    4 March 2013 at 22:08

    Photoshop gives you a few methods…you tube has some guides. I’d duplicate the layer, save one as grayscale, on the colour layer zoom in so you can see the pixels and using select tool, not magnetic one-it isn’t accurate enough, draw around what you want to keep in colour. Copy it and paste it into the grayscale layer and position. A bit fiddly at first but you tube will show the way.

  • Jamie Laird

    Member
    4 March 2013 at 22:10

    Or draw around what you want to keep in colour, select inverse, and then in hue saturation, turn the saturation right down. The marching ants around your selection will remain in colour, the background will go grey.

  • Chris Windebank

    Member
    5 March 2013 at 08:22

    desaturate is the way to go John, lesson here mate
    http://digital-photography-school.com/m … 2-tutorial

  • John Harding

    Member
    5 March 2013 at 09:26

    just like buses you wait for one answer and four come along at once 😀 😀

    Really appreciate your time to reply I will sit down late with a cup of tea and have a play

    Thanks again

    John

  • Glenn Sharp

    Member
    5 March 2013 at 09:43

    I’ve just tried this in Corel PhotoPaint using the undo brush and it is so easy

    I’ve now just found a new hobby 😀

  • Nicholas Gormley

    Member
    5 March 2013 at 10:09

    Glenn, What way did you do it in Corel??

  • Glenn Sharp

    Member
    5 March 2013 at 10:27

    Nicholas…….I just used ‘Desaturate’….then the undo brush to bring the colour back to the specific area

    It really was as simple as that.

    Done in Corel PhotoPaint though….not CorelDraw

  • George Elsmore

    Member
    5 March 2013 at 11:25

    😎 must have a play

  • Glenn Sharp

    Member
    5 March 2013 at 11:42

    Before and after….took two minutes tops


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