Tutorial
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The objective of this tutorial is to help you mix color photography with black and white photographs. There are several ways to achieve this - here is one way...
Have you ever went to a Kodak store and saw a picture of a baby and the only thing that was color was her dress? I'm going to teach you this.
Note: I will have examples soon.
001: Open up a fully color photo.
002: Go to Image >> Image Size - resolution, 300.
003: Duplicate the layer; turn off eyeball of original background.
004: Open a NEW photoshop document; (File >> New) color mode should be grayscale (not RGB).
005: Edit >> Paste (your photo should show up in a new window).
006: Click on the move tool (the black arrow) and drag the new grayscale photo back into the original color document window.
007: You should see your grayscale photo on it's own, new layer.
008: Line up the two images directly on top of each other.
009: On the grayscale layer, magnetic lasso around the rose
010: Then hit the delete key
011: You should now see the color within the grayscale layer
012: Got to Layer >> Flatten Image (hit "ok" for discarding any hidden layers)
I hope this helped a lot. Have any questions? Ask me and I will help you.
Have you ever went to a Kodak store and saw a picture of a baby and the only thing that was color was her dress? I'm going to teach you this.
Note: I will have examples soon.
001: Open up a fully color photo.
002: Go to Image >> Image Size - resolution, 300.
003: Duplicate the layer; turn off eyeball of original background.
004: Open a NEW photoshop document; (File >> New) color mode should be grayscale (not RGB).
005: Edit >> Paste (your photo should show up in a new window).
006: Click on the move tool (the black arrow) and drag the new grayscale photo back into the original color document window.
007: You should see your grayscale photo on it's own, new layer.
008: Line up the two images directly on top of each other.
009: On the grayscale layer, magnetic lasso around the rose
010: Then hit the delete key
011: You should now see the color within the grayscale layer
012: Got to Layer >> Flatten Image (hit "ok" for discarding any hidden layers)
I hope this helped a lot. Have any questions? Ask me and I will help you.
Tutorial Comments
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this would be nice with pictures.
just saying.
By shakeene on Jan 4, 2009 11:47 pm
on number five, you can just drag the orig background into the new document :]
By mszdasani on Jan 6, 2008 11:01 am
Im getting stuck on number 5!!! =[
By AleenasMommy326 on Dec 17, 2007 3:23 pm
I usually am a very visual person but the instructions were very clear so I was able to follow and successfully completed it!!! THANKS SOOOO MUCH!
By kimt08 on Oct 25, 2007 3:01 am
examples? it would help us to know what your talking about :)
By gurliechick on Oct 16, 2007 11:51 pm
is it ok if you post some examples?
By miszxjojo on Oct 8, 2007 1:35 pm
Good tutorial. It would of been better with examples. for those who are more visiual.
By NoWhereGirl1 on Oct 5, 2007 11:44 pm
don't you have any pictures to show exmples?
By marr89 on Oct 5, 2007 3:42 am
i did it! I'm so happy :p
By yent0t on Oct 1, 2007 10:36 am
