How do I make only a part of my photo color?

Question

I love photos were u inhance only 1 part of the photo like a teal sweater or a bight necklace and then leave everything black and white. How do i do so?

Answer 1

Either take a black & white photo, or convert a digital color photo to black & white after you have taken the pic (most digital cameras come with software that will allow you to do this pretty easily).

Then, using something like Photoshop (or possibly the camera software, depending on how nice it is), add color in the spots where you want it to go.

Answer 2

wow i've answered this 4 times in the last week, lol....here is my mini tutorial that I shared:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnOlpOocvfh9OVIvZUTx.NTty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071102125403AAiFc9z&show=7#profile-info-AA11704984

First Make a duplicate of your originial image(select layer, hit CTRL+J)...have 3 layers total. turn off the bottom layer thats just an extra for safe keeping.

Change the top most layer to BW: I like using Image>adjust>channel Mixer...then checking monochrome. play w/ the sliders to beef up the blacks, and add more contrast as needed..eyeball it.

Next whatever you want put back in as color, create a layer mask on the bw layer image - which is just above your color image. Paint the mask using a brush. You may have to experiement w/ hard and soft brushes, and be careful if there is a lot of detail...soft brushes w/ some opacity control to them may be needed. Black will erase, white brings it back (if you make a mistake). Coloring over the cat in black will bring through your color image underneath.

Another way you can do this is to hand color areas of a bw image w/ paint on another layer...then change the layer mode to color (or over lay - experiment as needed)....gives a different effect...

for more fun, change your file mode to LAB, and go into curves and reverse the A and B channels for some realy fun and funky effects.

I think based on your question that this should help you out, and possibly open the photoshop doors even wider....enjoy and have a blast!


*Don't use the wand or lasso tool, you'll end up w/ too sharp of edges...trust your brushes and hand best.

Answer 3

Try using Photoshop, I have adobe photoshop 6.0. To do it use the eyedropper to click something, than in Image -> Adjust -> Replace Color: Change the Saturation to the minimum (-100) and that will make all the color you pick go grey (so the skin, clothes, etc) and leave everything else it's original color. After you've gotten everything grey, you can play with the color of the rose (or whatever) making it a different color or brighter by playing with it's saturation too.

Answer 4

Cut out the part you want to be colored, select the rest of the picture with the colored part off to the side, make the photoblack and white, then drag the colored part back into the picture.


Cut out the part you want to be colored, copy it and delete it. Make the phoo black and white then paste the cut out part and drag it where it goes.

Answer 5

Try this site:

http://www.metacafe.com/tags/photoshop/

And be sure to tell all your friends so that they stop asking this same, exact question several times a day.

Answer 6

there must be 40 different ways to do this! and, yeah, we all see this question a lot!

Here's my step-by-step illustrated tutorial on it:

http://www.jimsdigitaldiary.com/colorizing.html