Making background black and white

jamieh · 20-06-2008 10:37AM #1

Hi all,

Could someone tell me how to achieve the effect where the background of an image is turned to black and white and the object in the front keeps the color.

I've seen this done loads on the photo forum.

eg. Picture of an orange.....the background is B&W but the orange still has full color.

Is it hard to do?

Karoma · 20-06-2008 10:40AM

What software are you using?
Google 'selective colouring'. Example: http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/colors/

jamieh · 20-06-2008 10:51AM

I'm using Photoshop.

That's exactly what I'm looking for...cheers mate.

starflake · 09-07-2008 11:29AM

Hi just wondering if I can do the same with GIMP? ie, a shot of a flower... leaving the flower in colour and making the background black and white?? Thanks! !

Zoe

5uspect · 09-07-2008 12:01PM

Its much the same process with the GIMP but it's been awhile since I've done it with the GIMP. I'm not sure if it uses masks like photoshop but its easy using a selection of the object you want in colour, inverting it and then desaturating.

Ricky91t · 10-07-2008 08:21PM

If photoshop i select the part using lasso then copy to new layer (turn off original layer visibility)go round the edge with a fine araser to get rid of any background.Then click the original adjust hue/saturation to your liking and merge and save
did this earlier

88show · 23-09-2008 07:24AM

ricky91t wrote: »

If photoshop i select the part using lasso then copy to new layer (turn off original layer visibility)go round the edge with a fine araser to get rid of any background.Then click the original adjust hue/saturation to your liking and merge and save
did this earlier

if you had selected a new layer/convert b&w/select layer mask/ and brushed out the b&w would be a little easier I thought.

Making background black and white

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