What is it called when you take a black and white photo and enhance certain things such as lips, dress.......?

Question

or flowers to have color. For example I have a X-mas photo of my twin girls and i would like it to be black and white but make the dresses, presents, and lips have color. I have photo shop. ANY input will help! Thanks

Answer 1

I think what you're trying to do is a selective desaturation. In photoshop, theres an option under IMAGE>>ADJUSTMENTS>>DESATURATE... this creates a black and white picture. If you select the parts that you want to preserve, and SELECT INVERSE under the select menu, and also FEATHER the selection (under the select menu) by a few pixels, you can apply the desaturation to only the parts you want!!!

Hope this helps, email me with anything you can't figure out!

Answer 2

To add to what Brian P. was saying, you can also use masking in photoshop to achieve the look you want. Masking lets you cover up what parts of the photo you don't want to color. This technique is useful if you plan on using more than one color at a time. If you wanna try using less technological means, art stores sell brush pens that do this exact thing. They aren't too expensive, and they're easy to use.

Answer 3

It just dawned on me what you were really asking. The process is called colorizing. Ted Turner did it to a bunch of old black and white films.

Answer 4

Before computers, this was called hand tinting - coloring in certin areas of a monochrome photo with color washes.

Answer 5

hi kelly...watever past ideas ppl giv, but in modern times its so developed that certain things hav its own professions and professionalists......u just take the selected photo to ur nearby photo studio, show the picture and ask to perform '' photo restoration''..thats the exact word for wat ur looking for,,, and then u can select ur own features like colours, back grounds etc on any particular area of the pic.....most of studios do ''photo restorations'''......but make sure u find some specialist in doing it. cos some instant photographers dont take risk in doing complicatd works, either its not a complicated.

good luck.

Answer 6

Hand-colored photographs... it's an old art since the days of the 19th century. http://www.normankoren.com/PWP_hand_color.html

Good reference, with this method, you can produce any tint you want ranging from cyanotype to sepia, etc.

Answer 7

its really easy in photoshop, what phptoshop are you using ?try playing around with layers or send me the pic and tell me what you need done and ill help you out ( free )

Answer 8

Could you possibly thinking of airbrushing?

Answer 9

also called handpainting. still can be done with photoshop. you can see examples in my wedding galleries. http://www.hodgkinsphotography.com