How To Create A Black And White Photo While Keeping Some Color

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This quick tutorial will show you how to make an object really stand out in your photos.

  1. By: cali80
  2. Categories Science & Tech
  3. Views 83,588
  4. Added :04-Jan-07
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  • You go too fast

    You may know what you are doing, but for those who don't, you are going way too fast and you missed a part. Why dont you explain why the choice of black is picked for painting? Why not explain that whit color erases?

    I havnt seen your other tutorials, but you might consider not being so hasty and thinking like a newbie would. If you cant put yourself in a newbie's shoes, than why do the tutorial?

    My way to do this colorizing is:
    1) Select new adjustment layer>Hue/Saturation
    2) Move your Saturation slider all the way to the left till its -100%
    3) Go to Layers>select Layer Mask>Reveal All
    4) Use Eraser with palette color BLACK to erase the layer to reveal color.
    5) If you make a mistake, not to worry, change palette color to WHITE and begin to erase your mistake.
    6) Flatten layers and save.
    (If you want more colors to appear instead of all the black and white, you can slide the Opacity slider in layers to slowly reveal some colors, but that wont reduce the color intensity of what you already colored in. You'll have black and white, some original colors, and even some faded colors if you so choose.

    Done!

    All the instructions are in sequence with nothing left out.

    You can also do this in Quick Mask which offers more choices of color changes.

    By Trevoc 1260746343
  • very easy

    thanks for sharing.. i will subscribe

    By hippie1203 1254507053
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  • Easy

    Nice and easy tutorial - just the way to do it. :-)

    By SEOcopywriter 1181853052
  • gj

    good job I voted

    By mazajo 1168811473
  • which

    which verzion is this

    By fanche 1168734037
  • Photoshop

    witch photoshop do you useee????!!!???!!!

    By Beserk 1168704915
    • Photoshop CS2

      I'm sure this will work with many of the other versions of Photoshop too.

      By cali80 1168709528
  • Great

    I rate 5 as well. easy to follow along. Great instructions thanks

    By smilesadie 1168584871
  • thanks man

    i rate you 5. Simple and clear instruction, thats what i needed.

    By mr m 1168514359
  • Thank you

    That means a lot :D

    By dina311 1168076102
  • toolman

    very neat I like this a lot

    By tool man 1168011325
  • neat

    thank you this was great. 5 stars given

    By Mrlucifer 1167987251
  • I LIKE THIS

    EDUCATIONAL.


    THANKS

    By ahhhhh 1167977895
  • Ownz

    Cool thx

    By dickerchen 1167941660
  • Creo que es mas sencillo....

    si selecionamos la mariposa primero ¿no?

    By Wyte 1168017949
  • ..

    mm tnx i try

    By jaanek 1168007812
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