How Do I get my pictures to look like this?

Question

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r173/heartbroken_icons/14snuau.jpg


Where only a couple things in the picture are color and everything else is black and white?


Thnx so much.

Answer 1

The way I do it using Photoshop is to start with a color picture. Then go to Image>Adjust> Desaturate. This enables your history brush so now you can go back and brush the color back into whatever parts of the picture you want to..............

Answer 2

there's a lot of ways. The easiest I think, in Photoshop, is to first create a duplicate layer of the background and go to mode, grayscale, to make the duplicate layer black and white. Then you can use the eraser or history brush to pull back the color, and you can turn down the opacity if you do not want the color to come back as strong. Another way to do it, and this only works some of the time, is to go into image - selective color, and select each color individually in the drop down menu and slide the saturation slider all the way down, this usually works if you want to highlight say a blue shirt or jeans because you just desaturate all of the color except for the blue - the reason this doesn't always work is because most colors have tints of many different hues, especially skin tones. The last way to do it is to use your magic wand tool and select what you want to remain in color and then zoom in and hold down the select key while you use the lasso tool to fine tune the selection, then just inverse your final selection and turn it to grayscale. Okay, so hopefully I haven't confused you. Just play around and you'll get it. There are so many little tricks, I recommend picking up a great Photoshop book, depending upon what version you have, Phil Krecjarek has a great one!

Answer 3

This is one way that you can do it in Photoshop Elements. It would be helpful to print this out and follow along. It's easy to do, but you must do the steps in order. Perhaps your own image editor has similar commands. If not, you might want to add details or post a new question to tell us what software you will be using.

1. Open the image you wish to alter.

2. Save the image using a different name than the original name so that you don't lose your original.

3. Use any selection tool you wish to outline the object whose color you wish to preserve. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is pretty quick, but the regular Lasso Tool might be more precise.

4. Hit [CTRL]+[C] to copy the selection.

5. Hit [SHIFT]+[CTRL]+[N] to make a new blank layer.
(Name it if you want, but you can accept "Layer 1.")

6. Hit [CTRL]+[V] to place the selection in the blank layer.

7. Move back to the background layer by clicking on that layer in the layers palette.

8. Hit [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[U] to remove all color.

8-A. ALTERNATE APPROACH No. 1: Hit [CTRL]+[U] and use sliders to desaturate, leaving a hint of color present.

8-B. ALTERNATE APPROACH No. 2: Use a "Convert to Black and White" utility, if your software offers this. In Photoshop Elements, the command is [ALT]+[CTRL]+[B].

9. Hit [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[E] to merge the layers.

10. Save your work.

Answer 4

You need an image editing programe like Photoshop.

Use your mouse to select the the parts of the image you want to remain in colour.

Invert the selection, so that you are working with the rest of the image. Desaturate this area, this will remove the colour.

Deselect, and you have your colour and black and white image.

Answer 5

You have to start out with a black and white photo and then apply color where you want it.