wedding picture

disc

i am wondering does anyone know how to change a digital colour picture to black and white but yet keep in this case a bouquet of roses in colour

i am using photoshop 7

thanks

FreeAnd..

havent really time to go into too much detail but the basics are:

1. select the item that you want to keep in colour i.e. the roses. ou can use a mask to select the roses or any of the select tools.
2. Invert the selection - this will select everything else.
3. Perform the B&W conversion on everything except the roses.

This is a quick how to in 10 seconds...you can complicate it as much as you want but this is the basics..

Wez

I find ya can just highlight the bouquet, right click and copy as new layer, then you have both as layers to play around with, adjusting saturation, contrast etc..

DeVore

An alternative to the above (which will give you a very crisp coloured transition from B&W to colour) is to download Picasa2 from Google and use its Focal B&W effect which fades out colour in a feathering way from a focal point. Might be more what you are looking for, I dunno.

DeV.

Fajitas!

Want to post it up and we can give it a go?

Zillah

Yup, post it up and we'll do it for you!

mikeanywhere

Shove it up so we can see the different effects being quoted above.

This is something I want to try but wasnt quite sure how to so thanks for the egg timer version LOL

disc

not gettin very far it keeps asking me if i want to flatten it

attached is the pic let me know if you can do it . just want to know for myself more than anything

step by step if possible

Fajitas!

Simplest way:

Zoom into the area.

Select Lasso, feather of 15 - 20, depending on how big the original file size is.

Lasso the flower, and whichever else you want to remain in colour. Be as accurate as possible.

Go to select at the top of the page.

Click inverse selection.

Image/desaturate.

Done.

Oriel

Quick attempt

dubtom

Here's one way of doing it.
http://www.lumika.org/gear_photoshop_channel_mixer.htm

Fionn

this is what i got


workflow:
duplicate layer
isolate flowers, in this case i drew around them with the eraser, but the lasso tool would do as well, then cleared the rest of the layer leaving just the flowers
with the colour layer (flowers) active choose layer matting defringe.
desaturate (shift Ctl U) the original layer or if you have a action or plugin use that
I ran the image through neat image to cut down some of the noise and resiezed it a little
oh and there was a spot on the man's jacket that i cloned out!!!
hope that helps

Zillah

Fionn wrote:

hope that helps

Not really, the link doesn't work




I did a quick one too but it looks identical to sinecurea's. I used Channel Mixer/monochrome. Generally works better than desaturate, although not very much with this image.

Ruu_Old

Zillah wrote:

Not really, the link doesn't work




I did a quick one too but it looks identical to sinecurea's. I used Channel Mixer/monochrome. Generally works better than desaturate, although not very much with this image.

Fionn's link is working fine for me, nice work too.

Zillah

How bizarre. I get:

Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Junior

Quickest way to do it is the following

Desaturate the whole image
Zoom in on the flowers
Select the History Brush
Start bringing the flowers back to life

Fionn

hmmm it worked last night - strange
anyway here it is




oh i forgot to add i put an orange filter on the B&W layer to give it some boost in brightness without blowing out details

Wez

Here's my attempt from a boring photoshop class.. Nothing better to do!

tab126

I use the "Color Range" option from the "Select" menu. I'm not sure if it is PS7, though. The tool lets you choose a range of colors and gives you a nice little preview so you don't have to work with brushes/lassos/whatevers. If you draw a loop around the basic outline of the roses, it'll work even better. After you've got what you want selected, jump it to a new layer, then make the old layer b&w. The new layer (on top) should remain colored. If you want the green, too, you'll have to do 2 color selections/jumps to new layer.

Wez

Fionn wrote:

I ran the image through neat image to cut down some of the noise and resiezed it a little

Was wondering how you did that! Downloaded it now, very handy little tool!

dubtom

Fionn wrote:

hmmm it worked last night - strange
anyway here it is




oh i forgot to add i put an orange filter on the B&W layer to give it some boost in brightness without blowing out details

That filter really does give the image a boost, nicely done Fionn.

Valentia

tab126 wrote:

I use the "Color Range" option from the "Select" menu. I'm not sure if it is PS7, though. The tool lets you choose a range of colors and gives you a nice little preview so you don't have to work with brushes/lassos/whatevers. If you draw a loop around the basic outline of the roses, it'll work even better. After you've got what you want selected, jump it to a new layer, then make the old layer b&w. The new layer (on top) should remain colored. If you want the green, too, you'll have to do 2 color selections/jumps to new layer.

Any sign of the Photoshop sub-forum. Good stuff 126. Thanks 99. (If you're old enough to get that one )

Fajitas!

Valentia wrote:

Any sign of the Photoshop sub-forum.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054986665

Give it all the support you can