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Lisa Aliperti 		 

How to desaturate then paint back selective color


 
  Painting Toenails
Painting Toenails
A required activity of the slumber party girl gang.
1/4 sec, F5.6, ISO 200, 34mm, cropped and desaturated in Photoshop elements with nail polish painted back.

Lisa Aliperti

  
 
Several months ago I was given the technique for desaturating a color image then painting back selective parts of the photo. My example is bringing back only the toenail polish in this photo. I cannot remember how I did this or find my notes.
Can anyone help?? Thank you.


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May 13, 2006

 

Damian P. Gadal 		  An easy way is to put a desaturated copy on top of the colour copy and then just erase the toenails in the top layer. You'll see the colour start to come out. When done, flatten image and save.

hth


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Lisa Aliperti 		  Damian,
Thanks for the quick response. Can you step by step tell me how to do this? I'm new to Photoshop Elements.
Lisa


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Damian P. Gadal 		 
 
 
Okay...

Step one original image...


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like this one...


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