Help with camera setting/photo editing (not sure which)

[amped4life33]

So a lot of times I see a shot where only 1 color shows up and everything else is black and white. Say like if its a picture of a red car with green wheels sittin on the grass with a tree in the back ground. you take the picture and everything is black and white except the grass, the tree and the rims...

is this a setting on the camera? or is it done in an image editing program?

how do I do it?

[james]

lots of point and shoot cams have a selective color setting. i don't think any dslr's do. its much easier to do in photoshop. It is a bad thing to do it in camera, because then it will forever be a selective color image....


I don't know how experienced you are with photoshop, so here is a super elementary way of doing this...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=581333426593215811#

of course it would be better to use layer masks and adjustment layers, but its more complex.

[A.A]

I use Photoshop.

Open your picture in PS > Right click on your background layer (in the layer box) and select "duplicate layer" Click the eye next to that layer to turn it off > select your background layer again and go to "image" > "adjustments" > desaturate > then you might want to play with your contrast and brightness to make the monochrome (B&W image) look its best > click back on the eye to view that color layer again over the top of your background layer> select that color layer > go to the paint brush tool > select a crisp edge dot of appropriate size (start with 100 or so) > go to brush "mode:" clear, "opacity:" 100 > start "painting" the color away.

You will get the hang of it. when it is time to get close to the subject that you want to keep color on go back to brushes and select a smaller size brush with a soft edge and trace your subject. zoom in if you have to. this will get a natural softer outline blend of color and B & W for your image.

oh and when outlining holding the shift key will allow you straight lines so it will save you tones of time.

...and use lock layer position so you don't accidentally drag the images out of alignment...

[A.A]

:cough: post up your picture when you have it done :cough:

[boostedb16]

heres one that just took about 5 minutes. its easy if you have photoshop.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/3921158223_bc48aae18a_b.jpg

[Tarzanman]

lots of point and shoot cams have a selective color setting. i don't think any dslr's do. its much easier to do in photoshop. It is a bad thing to do it in camera, because then it will forever be a selective color image....


I don't know how experienced you are with photoshop, so here is a super elementary way of doing this...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=581333426593215811#

of course it would be better to use layer masks and adjustment layers, but its more complex.

You can do it in the RAW adjust dialog. It would be an (almost) useless feature to have the setting in-camera on a DSLR because most people like the RAWs to remain unmolested.

[james]

You can do it in the RAW adjust dialog. It would be an (almost) useless feature to have the setting in-camera on a DSLR because most people like the RAWs to remain unmolested.

thats what i said.:rolleyes: