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Posted 6/3/2007 7:06:43 AM

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freeflower

Can anyone tell me how on some BW images there are areas that are still their natural colours? I'm assuming this is a photoshop technique of some sort. I have Corel Paint Shop Pro XI and I can't find any tutorials on this subject in the manual. Maybe I'm just missing it somewhere. Any help on this subject would be appreciated as I'd like to try this out if possible. Smile

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Posted 6/3/2007 7:21:27 AM

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Anonymous

It can be done in Photoshop. It's called Selective Desaturation.
I don't know Corel so I can't really help there but if you use the terms Selective Desaturation (for Corel) in a search engine, you might have better results.

Posted 6/3/2007 8:49:14 AM

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oboy

Here is a tutorial for photoshop. I think it will work very similar in Paint Shop Pro. If it is not possible to create a Layer Mask in PSP, then use the eraser tool on the BW layer on the parts you want to have the color layer show through.

Good luck and have fun.

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Posted 6/3/2007 8:59:51 AM

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freeflower

Thanks for the help. I don't appear to be getting any links on the forum pages for some reason. I'll have to ask Eric if there's something going wrong somewhere. Smile

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Posted 6/3/2007 6:31:44 PM

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oboy

Hmm... where is the link in my post? Well ... try this link

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/selective-coloring.html

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Posted 6/4/2007 7:23:54 AM

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NiKiMoTo

PSP selective coloring tutorial 1

A ton of other PSP tutorials here

A bunch more on Corels' website

Maybe something in the sites above will help.
If I come across anything else worth looking at I'll
come back and post it.

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Posted 6/4/2007 7:27:22 AM

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WillPat

It's a technique that can be done with almost any photo editing program including Paint Shop Pro. Go to Corel's website and I'm sure you'll find a tutorial geared to the program you are using. Or you could try a google search on "selective desaturation". Like most digital effects, it can be done on almost any image but improves the appeal of less than all of those it is applied to; or, to put it another way, just because you can process an image that way doesn't mean you should. You see it used most often to make part of an image B&W (usually the background) while leaving other part of the image (usually the subject) in color; or to take out all but one of the primary colors. Another approach that requires a bit more work but offers a whole different range of results is to reduce but not eliminate the color in a selected portion of an image without going all the way to B&W, in order to push emphasis to the part that remains in full color.

You may also want to check out the recently completed challenge Selective Desaturation II. Searching the forums at dpchallenge.com would be another good source as they usually have a lot of discussion about the techniques used in the challenge.

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