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RE: Selective Coloring - PS Help please!

bissy1 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:59:56 GMT

Selective coloring is digital art. And I agree that the catagory is very wide spread and I get unsure at times. But SC is digital art. I'm glad it worked for you. I don't know why people make it harder than what it is with instructions that are so hard to follow. Hope you have fun with it....Sandy

RE: Selective Coloring - PS Help please!

aurock — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:56:20 GMT

Sandy, thanks for the PS selective color instructions ... just tried it for the first time; pretty neat :D:P

OK, now not to highjack the thread ;) but if you use selective color on an image, should that image definitley be placed in the Digital Art category? as opposed to whatever category it would otherwise be appropriate for? Digital Art can be so wide-ranging (and incredible but most of it is far beyond my current capabilities LOL) that sometimes I'm a bit unsure of what constitutes Digital Art. Thanks in advance for any feedback :D

RE: Selective Coloring - PS Help please!

bissy1 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:19:45 GMT

Here is a super easy way to do selective coloring in Photoshop. I have Photoshop 6.

1. file>open

2. Image>duplicate

3. duplicate image> OK

4. Image>Adjust>Desaturate

5. click on to maxamize

6. History brush

7. Zoom in so you can get a good look

8. Start to paint back where you want the color

9. When done>close out>save changes>file name (rename so you have your original image)

JPEG options>click ok

Your done.......Hope that helps....It is so easy.....Sandy

RE: Selective Coloring - PS Help please!

lil_nitelite — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:23:42 GMT

Ive been working on the technique and so far as I can tell there are 2 different ways. I have Corel X2 but I believe the technique is the same in photoshop

Way 1:
1. Copy the background image
2. Right click the copy and select new mask layer, show all (or reveal all depending on your program)
3. Use a brush and paint over the area you want to reveal (there are several differnt brushes, I found the best to be a hard round brush) Make SURE you are on the mask layer.
4. Once everything is masked, merge all and you should be done

Way 2:

1. Select whatever it is you want to keep colored
2. Invert the selection
3. Desaturate all

Either way isnt easy but I think the second works better for me. Ill post one I just did last night. Hope that helps!

RE: Selective Coloring - PS Help please!

Glynn — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:10:49 GMT

Huh? I've had no experience with GIMP - in PS you have a history of your last 20 actions. There is also the History brush tool. To ensure that you can always go back to a certain point - use a separate layer.

Selective Coloring - PS Help please!

Wacky Jacky — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:22:08 GMT

I have the concept going, but can't seem to figure this out - in GIMP it was as simple as changing the background and foreground colours when you erased on a colour that you didn't want to show, by switching the fore/background colours you could "erase" areas back to grayscale/black and white.

For some reason this is not working in PS, or am I doing something wrong?

The undo history is nice, but sometimes after I've done a lot of erasing I see a mistake I made quite a few steps back.