PhotoShop advise.

jaqian

Now obviously this photo is b&w but I have it in colour at home. What I want to know is how do I select the man in the foreground, I want to keep him in colour and change the background to b&w.

I don't have PS but I'm sure whatever advise you give I can then (hopefully) translate for use on GIMP.



Cheers,
Rob

Calina

Jaqian,

you need a duplicate layer.

from the top layer, select the rider using some tool. I'd use magnetic lasso in Photoshop, but I can't remember if that exists in the gimp. There certainly are some lasso tools though one which will force you to trace around (freehand lasso).

Select inverse, and delete the surrounding area.

select bottom layer. convert to black and white.

You could probably do this as a single layer but I generally wouldn't as it's a bit more flexible to have the colour and the black and white parts separate - you don't have to go reselecting the pieces every time you want to change one little thing.

hope this helps.

jaqian

Thanks Calina i'll give it a shot.

m_stan

Looks like this tutorial is exactly what you need - specifically for this treatment, and specifically for GIMP