how do u make ur pics bright and colorful?

Question

okay so i have photoshop...and have no clue how to use it.

i want to make my pics really colorful and bright.

also how can u have a black and white pic with only like a peice of it colored?

thankies for the help!
p.s. this a basically an easy 10 points!

Answer 1

In Photoshop, choose Levels to make your basic adjustments - NEVER Brightness or Contrast, or any of those awful Auto settings.
That Histogram is the best friend you'll ever have for image optimization.
Then, if you want to enhance colors even more, experiment with Hue and Saturation - especially Saturation.
After, and only after, you've adjusted Levels you might try tipping the Contrast up a little too. Also a little tweaking of Color Balance might help. But, again, only AFTER you've adjusted Levels.

Before you start adjusting, be sure to make a copy of your original (Choose Save As and give it a new name) then play, play, play.

All this is covered in my Photoshop Quick Tips tutorial at www.jimsdigitaldiary.com.

Darn. Yours is about the tenth question I've seen here about blending color and black& white. I'm going to write a new page for my website tomorrow with a step-by-step on how I do it. It includes a really neat process for making it look like your image is actually over-lapping the border.

Check out the website in a day or two.

Answer 2

The absolute simplest way in photoshop to increase contrast and the saturation of an image in photoshop is:

1. Duplicate the background layer and set the layer blending mode to soft light.

2. Adjust the opacity slider of the new layer to taste.

I'm assuming a reasonably good image to begin with.

You can play with adjustment layers to tweak the image after that.

The black&white with color question has been answered over 2,000 times, but here's another answer.

1. Duplicate the background layer. It will give you a recovery point if things don't go right.

2. Select the parts of the image you want to have in color using your mouse.

3. Go to the layers menu and select add layer mask.

4. Pick hide selection.

5. Desaturate the image.

Bingo!



Vance

Answer 3

amandica82 told you about saturation tools. Just hit [CTRL]+[U] and you'll find them. Adjusting levels can have a dramtic effect, also. [CTRL]+[L] will get you there.

antoni gave the actual correct answer.

I hope amandica comes back to check this question, because I can kill two birds with one stone.

Start with a color photo. If you want to add color to a black and white photo, you will have to be very careful, patient and skillful with the paintbrush tool.

This is one way that you can do it in Photoshop Elements. Maybe this is helpful for other image editors as well. 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.

3-A. Use the erase tool to erase any color that you do NOT wish to preserve.

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. (on the right of your screen)

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 don't need photoshop to get bright vibrant colors. The 2 most important steps are=

1. it takes a lot of light to bring out the full colors, at the very minimum you need full daylight. daylight with fill-flash is even better for flower close-ups. overcast days, deep shade and indoor without flash will washout the colors beyond what photoshop can fix.

2. use polarizing filter. this will give you a richer dark blue sky without dulling the clouds. it also enhances the color saturation of reflected light.

Answer 5

The most effective tool for brightening up is the curves, but it's a bit complicated to explain here. You could probably get good enough results with either the auto levels, auto contrast, or auto color (Image menu).

To make a colored pic black&white:
1. duplicate layer (in layer menu)
2. reduce saturation (image>adjustments>hue/saturation)
If you move the slider to the left, it becomes black&white.
Now use the eraser to erase part of your layer, and the colored image will show through.
After you're done, flatten the image (layer menu)

Answer 6

use the controls for saturation and hue... brightness and contrast, gamma correction.......play with these controls.. i use them a lot for pictures that come out dark.. it brightens them up quickly.. you can also make pictures pink or blue, etc..... that part is pretty easy...... the other question about making a part of it colore... i have no idea.. i have been trying to figure that out too! Also play with the effects or art effect (cant rememebr which one they are called) you can do all sorts of crazy things with your pictures with jsut touching a button or two

Answer 7

go to image>adjust>brightness/contrast, then adjust to your hearts content. you can select the part you want colored using any laso tool, then right click the selection and select layer via copy. don't close the current file, open a copy of it, go to image>mode>grayscale, then go to image>mode>rgb. copy the duplicated layer in the first image to the grayscaled image.

Answer 8

this wont be popular, if you want bright colourful pix get the exposure correct,

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Answer 9

idk but if u know plz let me know!!!

Answer 10

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