how do i make a picture blk/and white and make ONE item color??

Question

i have seen pictures..(alot of them wedding pictures or lil kid pictures..) that are made into black and white pictures and one item in the picture is made colored. (alot of times its a red rose or something like that) I do not have photo shop is there any other way to make these kind of pictures? and what are they called?

Answer 1

I don't really think that there is really a name for this effect, at least officially.

A long time ago when I still visited this site, I found a tutorial for creating this effect in Photoshop. They called the effect the "Pleasantville Effect." I have never heard of this effect anywhere else. The tutorial link is here: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/tutorial/pleasantville

But, if you read the tutorial, you'll find that this effect is very simple. I'll summarize it in general terms that you might apply to when you use a free program like Paint.NET (download link here: http://www.download.com/3000-20-10338146.html?part=undefined&subj=dl&tag=button ). (Side note: if you download Paint.NET you will also have to download something called the .NET (dot net) framework from the Microsoft website at Microsoft.com. Just search it under downloads.)

Basically, you start out with a color photo. Use a selection tool to carefully draw a selection shape around the thing you want to be color while everything else is black and white.
Then, copy the selection, make a new layer in the picture, and paste it in the new layer while making sure it's in the same spot as the original selection. Then, go to the old layer with everything else but the thing you want to be color, and run it through a filter that makes everything you run through it black and white.

I suggest you read the tutorial because the way you make the so-called "Pleasantville Effect" in Photoshop is very similar to the way you make it in any advanced image editor like Photoshop or Paint.NET or Paint Shop Pro.

Answer 2

The easiest way:

1. duplicate your image in a different layer.

2. Convert the top image to b&w.

3. Erase the object you want to colorize on the top layer.

You'll need to use a small soft edged brush to erase and will have better luck with some objects than others. Magnify the object to get into more detail.

Good luck!


aaron

Answer 3

Well, in photoshop you can create a mask.

Since you don't have photoshop, you can print the black and white photo, and use colored pencils to color the one item. I have done it, but it has been many years ago, and I can't remember if I had to get special photo pencils or not.

Good luck!