Making photo black and white with color using adobe photoshop.?

Question

How can I do this without having to color it back myself..? If anyone can tell me step by step a simple way to do this it would be very appreciated! thanks!

I have a color photo that I want to turn into black and white and have a selected few things in that photo be in color.

Answer 1

OK if what it seems your'e wanting to do is this:

Change colour pic to grayscale

Change it back into rgb / cmyk

use your history brush

paint over the areas you want to be back in colour and they will return to the state they were in when the file was opened - but you MUST be in that same colour mode.

Answer 2

If you're starting with a Black & White image, then you'll have to supply the color. When an image is saved as B&W, the color information is stripped off to reduce the file size. There really isn't a way to restore the color information.

As for colorizing the image, use layer masks to color individual area without losing the gray gradient information.

Answer 3

The question is a little unclear.

If you're trying to change a picture FROM color TO black-and-white, you'd do this:

Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation
... and change saturation to zero.

If you want to make a b/w image a specific color, the same dialog can tint the picture (select the "colorize" checkbox).

If you have a black-and-white scan of a color picture, the color information is entirely lost. There is no way to automagically recover it.

You can select various areas of the image and use the hue/saturation dialog to tint them.

Answer 4

You can make photo into B/W either by changing its color mode to Grayscale or by accessing "Image>Adjustment>Hue/Saturation" menu. However, the two methods will give somewhat different results.

Here is the step by step with Grayscale method:

1. Open your color photo.
2. Make a copy of it by accessing "Image>Duplicate" menu. Place the duplicate side by side with your original photo.
3. Make sure you are in the duplicate photo by clicking its window. Access "Image>Color Mode>Grayscale" menu to turn it into B/W. Now turn back the color mode to "RGB" ("Image>Color>RGB") so that all PS features are available for editing the photo.
4. Now move to the original photo by clicking its window.
5. Open up "Layers" palette ("Window>Layers" menu). Press and hold the left button of your mouse to drag the layer to the duplicate B/W window. (Never mind the position, just drag and drop it.)
6. Move back to duplicate B/W photo and makes sure you are in the layer with color photo that you just dropped it in. Press Ctrl A to activate selection marquee for whole canvas in this layer. Align the photo to the layer by accessing "Layer>Align to Selection" menu; that is, align it to the left and to the bottom.
7. Select polygonal lasso tool in "Tools" palette. Use this tool to create a marquee around the target object you want to show in color. When done, you can do either of these two way:
a. Press Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse selection and press Del to remove the unwanted parts, or
b. Go to "Layers" palette and click "add layer mask" icon at the bottom of palette.
8. Now it's done. Save your work as psd file and save a copy to any format you want.
If you choose jpeg, for example, you don't need to flatten the layers, because it will automatically done by PS. Saving it to jpeg can also be done by accessing "File>Save for Web" menu.