Does anyone know how to make your picture black and white and then colorize certain parts of the picture?

Question

I can't figure it out. I'm talking about something kind of like this picture right here.
http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi178.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw264%2Fx0nicole2%2FIcons%2Fcute.gif&searchTerm=cute%20icons&pageOffset=2

Answer 1

photoshop!

Answer 2

If you don't have photoshop and don't want to pay a fortune for it, you can download a free program called The Gimp. It's very good, in my experience.
All you need to do to achieve this effect in the Gimp is to:

duplicate the original image and set it to black and white
anchor the b&w on top of the original
add a layer mask to the b&w pic
chop out the bits of the layer mask that you don't want to hide (ie, have black and white)
It's called selective colouring, and there's heaps of tutorials out there on it

Answer 3

My mum and dad's wedding photos are kind of like this.. they were b/w images ... some clever person painted them up carefully with a watercolour wash using a camel hair brush. In my parents photos they got the bridesmaids dresses in the wrong order... so had to do another set the right way around.

5 minutes on PC these days... but these new one's lack the quality of those old original prints with their "human inaccuracies" that give them an artistic quality.

Answer 4

My daughter downloaded a program called Paint.NET. It's free and after playing around with it a while she does all kinds of different things including what you are asking about. My 9yr old son even does it so it can't be to hard. Good Luck!

Answer 5

Photoshop.

Answer 6

photoshop.
there are endless ways to do this, here are a few:
1) make 2 layers. top layer put no saturation so it is black/white. crop/erase out whatever you want colored on the black/white layer (top layer) - this will expose the bottom layer; the true color. if you want it colored a different way, you can add adjust its color balance or add a color layer on top of the bottom layer (but remain beneath the top layer)

or you can

2) use sponge tool, and make every part of the picture black/white as you so please. for the true color remaining, you can use color balance to achieve your desired look.

Answer 7

You need a programme like PaintShopPro or Corel for that. But its easy enough to do.

Answer 8

download picasa, you can do that sort of thing(: