i need picture editing help :)?

Question

how do you make a picture with like some of it black & white & the rest colored ?
help please :)<3♥

Answer 1

That is usually called selective color removal.

Here is a tutorial on doing it with the Gimp software. Doing it in Photoshop would be similar.

http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs11/f/2006/189/6/e/SelectiveColoring.pdf

Answer 2

You need a photo editing software that supports layers.

Photoshop is the defacto standard. The current version is Photoshop CS2, but it is very expensive. Photoshop Elements has many of the core features of Photoshop but is much cheaper.

GIMP is free on the internet, and is a powerful editing tool. A bit less friendly and lacking in features than Photoshop, but the price is right and it does support layers and masking.

Photoshop and the others do have quite a learning curve involved. It does take some time to learn how to use it effectively. But it is learnable.

There are at least a couple of methods to make a picture in black in white with selective color. One would be to cut out the part that you want to keep in color and paste it back in as a second layer on top of the original image. You can then change the underlying layer to black and white without affecting the cut-out layers.

Another would be to simply create a complete duplicate layer so that you have two layers of the same image. You would then convert the top layer to black and white and use a layer mask to only allow certain parts of the bottom layer (in color) to show through. Then after you are done editing you would merge the layers together before saving. Here's an example of this:

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/cp/olympus/...

The above tutorial is Photoshop based, but the idea is the same with GIMP.

Search on the net for "selective color" and you will find loads of information.

Answer 3

You will need a photo editing software. Select the area that you want to keep in color. In photoshop I use the lasso tool. Once you have the area selected go to the pull down menu at the top and hit select inverse. Then convert to B/W. You can convert to B/W by the auto controls or go to the saturation menu and drag the saturation bar all the way to the left.

Answer 4

Using a program like photoshop, you create a layer (look at help section for how to do this). Once you've done that, go to the new layer and use the lasso tool to outline what you want to keep in color. In the tools at the top, choose "select inverse" (this chooses everything else). Once you've done that, go to color and choose "grayscale". Once you go back to the original, everything except what you have chosen will now be in blacks, whites, and grays (better than simply black and white).

Good luck!

Answer 5

adobe photoshop

select the colored part with the pen tool
click "select" > inverse
click "image" >adjustments>desturate

and tht's it:)

Answer 6

Download Picasa2 from Google and use the effects. It works great and its free.