In Adobe Photoshop CS2 ver. 9.0?

Question

How do you take a black and white picture but make only parts of it colored? Like a black and white picture with red roses where the only color in the picture would be the red roses or something like that.

Answer 1

It's easier to start with a color photograph and desaturate parts of it, but if you want to add color by hand, it's not too difficult.
First, change the mode to RGB if it's in greyscale. Then, add a new layer over the B&W background and set it from "normal" to "color." Next, just paint what you want into the new layer.

Answer 2

In Photoshop:
Under your layers pallette there is a little circle- half is white half is black. Click on this then click on Channel Mixer. Click on Monochrome at the bottom of the Channel Mixer box. Then enter 30,60,10 in the boxes. Click OK.
This will make your whole image black and white. Then you can use a technique called Masking to bring back the color of the original image wherever you want.
Choose a brush, preferably something with a soft edge. Make sure your foreground and background colors are black and white. You can brush back in color when your foreground color is set on black. Change foreground color to white and brush out color to turn black and white again. To look at your mask click on \ to see where you have painted in or out color.
This is a great technique because you can always go back and change what you have done. Methods using the eraser tool are not good because once something is erased, its not coming back. This might sound a little copmplicated, as it is an advanced technique. Once you get the hang of it, its very simple.

Answer 3

easier than either of these approaches:

Use whatever selection tool you are good at to isolate the part of the image you want to leave in color. Then select the inverse of that selection. Then go to image//adjustments//hue/saturation (Apple U on MAC, Ctrl U on PC) and desaturate using the saturation slider.

While you're at it, open any image and play around with this tool hue/saturaion--it's a little appreciated tool that allows you to change colors in an image quite easily (see the colorize button -go for it and play)...

This is how the pro would choose to do it. It gives more control.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Use a layer mask go to

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/Adobe_Photoshop/All/?a=7&b=1&c=0&f=15&d=1&ss=layer%20mask

for tutorials on the subject

Answer 6

you cut the image you want red out of the pictyure, make it a sperate layer, then make the whole base layer balck and white, then but the red rose layered on top of the black and white image

hope this helps !!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Hi, you can try google picasa.

picasa is a google software.

it can also organize, edit and share your picture.

its easy and free to use, just like Google.com

download it here for free:

http://www.adcenter.net.cn/google-picasa/

Good Luck!