how can i make my digital camera take black and white photos and a certain color?

Question

i got a new camera its a nikon coolpix L11 and it's pretty good i want to take a photo that only shows the color red and everything else black and white

Answer 1

Ok get the photo up in photoshop then make two layers with the photo. Go into effects and turn the top layer black and white. Then delete the places you want red with the selection tool so you can see colour in the areas you want. Then go into hue and saturation on the area and make the colour red. Then try and gradient them from red to black and white by making a new layer and creating a custom gradient. By the way the photoshop version has to be cs3 and extended helps you can get this from keygen.

Answer 2

There is no real way of letting your camera do this.

The examples that you will have seen would have been created using a technique called "selective colouring" and would be done in post processing using software like photoshop.

Having tried it myself, I found that the easiest way was to create a new duplicate layer in photoshop, and convert this duplicate to black and white, then delete from the top layer the area/selection that I wanted to be colour (eg lip, red rose etc) This would leave you with a black and white image with the colour coming through from the original colour layer underneath.

I suppose filters fitted to the camera could do a similar job, but for your make, and purpose, I don't really think that would be an option.

Answer 3

I don't know about the Nikon but you can do it in a Canon A710 IS.