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**Dode** · 03-10-2005, 04:07 PM

What is the best way of turning colour images into B/W, then bringing colour into certain parts of the B/W photograph.
For example... only the petals of a flower being in colour while the rest of the pic in B/W...

Hope you can help

**brokensoul2271** · 03-10-2005, 05:11 PM

i dont use photoshop but i did somthing similar to this in fireworks so i might be able to help but i probably wont. i believe its worth a try!
selct the entire picture and change the hue/satuaration levels to 0 and maybe change the lightness/darkness further towards the darkside (no star wars puns plz!) then if you slelect the petals using the magic want or somekind of polygon selector (anything that enables you to select a petal seperate).
If you are using some kind of polygon/free hand selector/marquee tool make sure you outline the whole petal. Now change the hue/saturation levels back to the origional settings (making sure that only the petal is selected) You should now have a coloured petal on a B&W image. repeat as necassary.

Really hoped that helped!

**brokensoul2271** · 03-10-2005, 05:15 PM

this might help actually:
http://www.mandarindesign.com/tutorials/colorizing.html

**Dizkonnekted** · 03-10-2005, 06:15 PM

Hmm, seems to me you want to do this backwards, why not draw a selection around the petals themselves and then invert the selection, click image then desaturate. The petals will keep their colour but the rest will turn b&w!

Hope that helps!
Diz

**rtheodorow** · 04-07-2005, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Dode

What is the best way of turning colour images into B/W, then bringing colour into certain parts of the B/W photograph.
For example... only the petals of a flower being in colour while the rest of the pic in B/W...

Hope you can help

Open the photo on Photoshop. Enter "masking mode" and mask out everything you want to keep in color (it will look redish). Then copy the soon to be greyscale part of the image on a new layer. Then hit Image - Adjust Hue/Saturation and drag the saturation bar all the way to the left. There you have it....