 Heather L. Klepper |
Photoshop Elements 3.0 I can not figure out how to turn an image to black and white then turn an object in the image to color. For example a shirt, sky, etc. Thank you! Heather K.
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William Schuette |
Heather, the easiest way is to start with your color photo and duplicate it as a new layer. Convert that layer to B&W then you can one of two things. 1) You can erase the B&W layer where you want the color to show through. 2) For more control, add a layer mask on the B&W layer, select your brush tool, set the color to black, with the mask active lpaint over what you want to be color and if you screw up change the color to white and paint back over it. Bill
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Heather L. Klepper |
Ok! Thanks, I will try it! Thanks again! ~Heather
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Heather L. Klepper |
Bill, Can you tell me how to find the layers mask in Elements 5.0? I thought I had 3.0, but is 5.0 sorry! Thank you very much, Heather
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Pete H |
Heather, "A layer mask prevents sections of a layer, or an entire layer, from being visible. You use the mask to show or hide sections of an image or an effect. When the layer mask (right thumbnail) attached to an adjustment layer is completely white, the adjustment effect is applied to all underlying layers. If you don’t want to apply the effect to certain portions of the underlying layers, paint the corresponding area of the mask with black. When attached to a fill layer, the mask defines the filled-in area in the fill layer." That is from Elements 5 help files. Elements really doesn't support "layer masking"..They do it via "adjustment layers." It does work, although it is a bit clumsy. Pete
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William Schuette |
Hi Heather, I use CS3 so I don't know whether it will be the same for you. At the bottom of my layers palette there are several icons for adding adjustment layers, etc. One of these is a layer mask icon, if you put your cursor over it, it will tell you what the icon is for. If you select a layer and hit the layer mask icon it will add a white layer mask to the layer. It looks like a white rectangle next to the regular layer icon. Remember white reveals, black conceals so the white layer mask will let anything you did on that layer show through (as in a B&W conversion). If the mask is active (highlighted by clicking on it), select a brush and paint on you photo with black. Wherever you paint, the effect of the layer will be concealed (in your example, color will show). If you colorze something you did not want to, just select white as the brush color and paint back over it and the B&W will come back. This is the advantage over this technique as opposed to erasing the B&W layer although both work. If you do not have a layer mask icon, check under the layer menu or check your help menu for adding layer masks. Bill
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Heather L. Klepper |
Ok! Thank you for all your help!!:)
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dennis w. mcclain |
you have to group the adjustment layer with the b&w layer abouve it in elements. then alt click in the mask to activate it. paint with black to bring the color through, and white to erase it back. here is a tutorial that uses this method, tho in a different type of effect http://www.photoshopsupport.com/elements/tutorials/extract-hair/masking-tutorial.html hope this helps. good luck
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Heather L. Klepper |
Thank you so much for all your help!!!
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