does anyone know how you make a picture black and white but then you have one thing in the picture that isnt?

Question

the question basically sums it up? anyone know how you do that??


thanx

Answer 1

Well, you can do it digitally using photoshop or what not, but the manual way would be to make a black and white photo, and then use water color to paint the one thing that isn't.

You have to make a photocopy of the black and white photo to put it on paper that will accept the water color paint.

Answer 2

There are several ways. The easiest that I can think of is to take the picture into Photoshop, and select the item you want to stay color with the magic wand. Then copy it and paste it to a new layer. Then go to your origional layer (make sure it is selected in your layers pallet) and go to Image>Mode>Grayscale.

If that doesnt work for you, you can go to Image>Adjustments>Color Balance and turn your colors down on the origional layer. Just make sure that when you do make the pic b&w that you have that one layer selected. The color thing should be on the top layer.

There are 4 or 5 other ways to do it, but those are both the most basic from what I remember. Of course, I tend to do things in round-a-bout ways in photoshop.

Answer 3

I can do that in Adobe photoshop. You can select the area you want to make black and white and leave the rest color. Or you can use layers and make the first layer B & W and then erase the part you want to show thru as color. There are alot of ways. You could make it black and white and paint the color. lots of ways.

Answer 4

I do that a variety of ways...

select the object or objects you want o remain in color and copy them to your clip board... then perform a B/W operation on the entire picture...

then past the colored image(s) back into place.

Save as the new file name.

Answer 5

i know a hardcore ghetto way
put the pic into paint copy the thing you want to stay color and then save the image in a black and white copy then paste the color section you chose earlier

Answer 6

Yes I know how. Email me. :) But you need photoshop CS2. Actually I learned on this site. type in that question under 'search questions' it hav already been resolved.

Answer 7

you can select the area to change, and make it grayscale. or there are other ways too, just fiddle around with them, and find what works for you

Answer 8

go to download.com and search for, and download Irfanview a photo editing software

Answer 9

i love that technique.. you have to buy a special software program.. they sell them at craft stores.. like hobbie lobby, Michaels, Joann fabrics..