 Jennifer Dick |
black and white photo with hint of color I love to take pictures, but new to the things you can do to them in a photo program. I have the Jasc Paint Shop Pro studio program. I think it has lots of potental but not very good directions. I was wondering if any one could help me out - I would like to turn a color photo into black and white but leave the suject's shirt the origainal color- maybe soften it a bit. Is this done by using layers? I can't make it work. If any one has any tips I would appreciate them!! Thanks!!
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Autumn Hernandez |
I don't think this is how everyone else does it, but this works for me. I turn the photo black and white and save it. Put the color pic down, then layer the black and white one on top of it. Erase from the b/w what you want to turn to the original color and it will show what is underneath. Does that make sense? If you wanted a softer color, you'd have to mess with the colored layer to get whatever you were looking for. I'm sure there are other easier ways to do it, but like I said, that's how I do it. lol Good luck.
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Christopher A. Vedros |
I agree with Autumn, there are several different ways to do this. Each graphics program has different tools that may make one method easier or harder than another. I used Paint Shop Pro way back when it first came out, but haven't used it much since. I don't know specifically what would work best in it. I use Microsoft Digital Image Pro. The method I have used for doing this is to trace around the shirt with a selection tool (either freehand select or the edge finder tool). Then click copy then paste to make a layer with just the shirt. Then I select the background layer and turn it to B&W. You can then select the shirt layer again and adjust it any way you want. A Gaussian blur to soften the focus, adjust color curves, saturation or transparency to affect the color, etc. The "color bubbles" image in my gallery was done this way. Another effect I like is to make a layer with the subject, then turn the background B&W and apply a blur to it. This gives nice emphasis to the subject. I have a few wedding pictures in my gallery where I used this effect.
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