How do you make a picture black and white but one thing in the picture still has color?

Question

You know how when you edit pictures you can make them black and white but there is still one thing in color how do you do that? thanks to anyone that can help.

Answer 1

Practice

Answer 2

Any image editing software will allow it. From the sounds of it the image is already black and white and you want to add color so the steps below will help you out quite a bit

Method 1
- For coloring in one object with one color
1. Open Photoshop
2. Open your image.
3. Under the layers pallette click on the half black / half white circle and choose the Hue & Saturation Adjusment layer
4. Choose Colorize
5. Drag the sliders to create the color you want
6. Click Ok
7. Erase the mask so that the one item you want is colorized

Method 2
- For colorizing multiple objects multiple colors
1. Open Photoshop
2. Open image
3. Create a new layer
4. Select soft focus brush and neatly brush over the object you want
5. Set Layer style to Color (try Hue if Color doesn't produce desired effect)
6. Drop layer opacity to like 50 - 75%
Repeat for various other objects.
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If you already have an image in color, then you are already one step ahead

1. Open Photoshop
2. Open image in Photoshop
3. Duplicate the layer (CRTL + J)
4. Select eraser tool
5. Set eraser to a soft focus brush
6. Erase the black & white layer where you want so the colors you want show through
7. Flatten Image (CTRL + E)
8. Save Image
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There are other ways to do this, but these are quite easy and should help you out quite a bit.

Answer 3

Umm...you take the picture in colour use photoshop or another photo editing program, and draw and outline around the object you want to stay coloured and make the rest black and white. I am not sure but there is probably even a program for just for doing this.

Answer 4

If you have Photoshop... make two layers, same image. Make the bottom layer black and white then set it to invisible. On the top layer, use the lasso tool (or pen tool) to carefully trace around the part you want to keep. The go to (probably) Select and hit Inverse, then hit the delete key. This should delete everything but that piece to keep colored. Bring back the bottom layer, then tell the program to Merge visible. This should get the results you are after.

Answer 5

Yes of course you'll have to use photoshop.

If the photo is in coulour
1. Use the tools in photoshop and select the area that you want it to be in COLOUR.
2. Press 'ctrl+i' (this makes the selectioninverse)... i/e all the other areas except which has to be in colour gets selected.
3. Go to an option in that has the button "desaturate" and select it.
4. and bingo! your photo becomes black and white and the area you selected is still coulour...

An easier way...
1. Make a duplicate of the photo in a seperate layer... (i.e the same photo on two layer)
2. Make the top layer Black and White.
3. Select the area you want in colour and then delete it in the top layer (the layer u made black and white)

If you're photo is Black and white already... you'll have to select the area u want in colour and then change it's colour manually...
Hope this helps you...

Answer 6

Make the picture black and white and colour the item yourself afterwards. It's like adding colour to an old black and white photo. You can do this with a photoshop, or you can actually paint right on the photograph with watercolours.

Answer 7

Open your picture in photoshop. Duplicate the layer. Change the top layer to black and white mode. Get the eraser tool and carefully erase the part of the 2nd layer to expose the first color layer behind it.

Answer 8

Using photoshop...make a selection around the area you want to keep colored and then right click it and invert the selection...then u just make it black and white and the selected is still gonna be they way u want!
Although photoshop is pretty good its so much easier to do this procedure in macromedia fireworks!

Answer 9

My new Canon A700 has a feature like that built in. Actually you select a particular color in the image (for example your subject's red sweater) and it turns all other colours to B&W.

You could also use photoshop (or some other paint program) to alter it. Not too hard if you know how to use the software.

Answer 10

If you want to do it manually (not with a digital camera) develop it in the darkroom normally (I should remind you to use B & W film) contimue with your rinsing and drying process. Then after the photo has dried, hand color it. Just becareful, you can't color like in a coloring book. I find using small dots next to each other work the best.