How do I work my Canon camera?

Question

I know that my camera (a Canon Powershop Pro 1) has the ability to do it, because my friend has the same one and she's done it before (actually with the camera, not just with photoshop or something), but does anyone know how to make a camera pick up only one color like this:
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v118/75/1/176700943/n176700943_30137989_3496.jpg

http://photos-284.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v97/41/124/176700284/n176700284_30123900_6721.jpg
i think that's a better picture, because it shows blue in 2 places instead of just one.

Answer 1

You probably going to need to mess with your photo effects by adjusting the saturation and maybe contrast and brightness. You can press the function key on your camera's screen, go to custom effect, and adjust the saturation which is going to manipulate the color depth. You'll probably have to play around with it a bit to get the desired colors.

Look in your manual under changing the photo effect for more detailed instructions.

The link below will show you how to access an on line version of your manual if you have lost or misplaced it.

P.S. You can always try photo-shopping the picture instead that way you don't limit yourself when you take the initial picture, creating the effect in that picture is pretty easy in most photo manipulation software.

Answer 2

It is impossible to create this effect in camera. Your friend is kidding you if she says she has done it that way. You can either take coloured pictures or black and white pictures, not a combination of both. Rather, it has to be done in a photo imaging program that allows you to make layers. You make a duplicate layer of the photograph, desaturate that duplicate layer, or convert it to grayscale, then select the area you want to show coloured and erase from within that area the black and white so the colour shows through, then flatten and merge.