B&W pics with colour

[big dub]

I have no idea how to do this and think the results can be rather good.

How do you make most of a pic B&W but leave one or more items as colour??

I have Photoshop elements 7 and Lightroom 2.2 to mess around with.

Cheers,

Rob

[4hero]

Hi Rob,

It's called Selective Colouring, there's lots of tutorials on the web

[JSS 911]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... do I B&W a section of photo in Photoshop?

and my attempt

[paul26982]

i have photoshop CS4 can i do this

[4hero]

paul26982 said:

i have photoshop CS4 can i do this

It's hilarious all these people that have paid £600+ for software, yet don't know how to use it?

Yes, you can do this by clicking on my previous link above, there's lots of tutorials on the internet.

[paul26982]

sorry for the noob question never really bothered with photoshop even though im a big art shot fan yep i know how to do it too thanx

[Pvapour]

My effort first week of camera, saw a more dramtic effect imposed on the B&W part in another thread which I'd like to know how to do, not sure it would work on this one though.




something more like this, not sure though

Edited by Pvapour on Thursday 9th April 23:02

[andy-xr]

4hero said:

paul26982 said:

i have photoshop CS4 can i do this

It's hilarious all these people that have paid £600+ for software

And then there's the ones who havent. Not pointing any fingers, but amount of users compared to amount of subscriptions is a very different number

[Funk Odyssey]

some of my recent ones -comments welcome!

[Funk Odyssey]

I should add - all done legally and free with the GIMP! I recommend it

[Pierscoe1]

one of mine, from New York last week:

[Roger645]

One of mine

Edited by Roger645 on Friday 10th April 08:58

[CarreraKid]

Hi,

As everyone else has said the selective colour tutorials will give you all you need,

Pvapour I sent you a mail ref my line of red Ferraris with the dramatic sky and think you could do it with your Enzo shot but may struggle with the current sky so I suggest cutting and pasting one with more definition the really playing with the levels and curves. I shot these as Raw files one my Richoh GX100 then used photoshop with Colour Effex pro 2 plug in.

[Pvapour]

OK, got the plug in, got a great shot of some stored tanks today, liked the antique look in previous pics so had a go.....

Edited by Pvapour on Saturday 11th April 22:32

[Funk Odyssey]

nice - like the tanks - perhaps needs the sides of the embankment lightening ?

[Funk Odyssey]

any excuse to post mine..... apologies if you don't like this sort of thing - I'm not so hot on leaving the coloured part super saturated - I like mine a bit more washed out and perhaps with odd bits of colour here and there....

the beast


dead hydracon


hidden AEC


another one of the beast

[Pvapour]

No. 1 favourite (like them all though) was the ground colour to front of truck intentional?

your right right on the embankment, 2nd one added but with colours drained a bit more plus a slight sepia in background.

[Funk Odyssey]

Pvapour said:

No. 1 favourite (like them all though) was the ground colour to front of truck intentional?

your right right on the embankment, 2nd one added but with colours drained a bit more plus a slight sepia in background.

which picture do you mean?

[Bob_Defly]

Mine:

[cw42]

Mine:


Love doing this with the right subject