GrayScale????????

Question

I'm Really Into Editing And taking pictures. I've seen some picture that the background is black and white and the person or objet in it is still color, or the otehr way around, how do they do this, which phto editor has this?

Answer 1

You can do this in pretty much any photo editing program that allows you to select or "lasso" the objects you want to convert. The most common one I've heard of/used is Photoshop. My technique I use...

Use the magnetic or regular lasso to trace around the elements in the image that I want to remain in color. I then copy this selected part onto a new layer (layer 2). I then go back to Layer 1 and convert it to black and white, which can be done lots of ways, but one way I do it is via the Desaturate command. Voila, black and white photo with color cutout. Layers are necessary in this case because they allow you to do things to a layer that doesn't necessarily affect the others; in this case, one layer being converted to black and white won't affect the color on the other layer.

Answer 2

just one thing to remember, do not change the file or image type to grayscale or BW. you need to keep the base image full color type even though you have "removed" the colors. the computer cannot add color to a true grayscale image file.

Answer 3

I use Paint.Net it is Free. Open a pic eg one with flowers in. duplicate layer, go to effects and make it greyscale then get the eraser tool and erase what you want to see coloured, save as. Good Luck