in PHOTOGRAPHY, how do you make the photo look partially color, and the rest almost black and white?

Question

in a few commercials,they would have this girl wearing a bright red dress, and everything else around her would have the same hue, kind of black and white, or some blue tint, but all the same and not colorfull at all.

another commercial, i think for some diamond company, would have these color sparkles shining out of the ring off her finger, but the basic color for everything else would have a very reduced color saturation (or something of that nature)

so i was wondering which program is able to do that, or if it actually is a program. or is it a way you shoot? i hope i was clear enough :)

Answer 1

You are now speaking of commercials and not photography...



In commercials, they don't take the snap-shots as is and display them, but they do a lot of graphics rendering...



For example, the first commercial you stated, could be done via Adobe Photoshop using two images...

1- image of the background (either color and converted to black and white, or originally taken in blacck and white);

2- image of the girl in color, and maybe with a background of solid green (modern) or blue (old), which is then converted to a transparent layer...



The next step after deleting the back-color behind the girl and having the background in black and white is to actually merge the two images...



In Adobe Photoshop, its really easy to add layers, but you have to be a professional graphics designer to be able to alter the images in a way that bare eyes can't notice that the image is really fake...



Its not only Adobe Photoshop that does that, but also, Corel Draw...

Never treid doing it in Corel Draw though (although its near enough done the same way)



PS:

Adobe has completed the acquisition of Macromedia to be the giant of Graphics & Multimedia Software developer on the market...

Answer 2

Well - you can do this in photoshop, photoshop elements and paintshop pro to name a few (others as well). In each program, the technique is pretty much the same. What I do is the following (this can be done on a photo taken with a digital camera or a scan of a color photo taken with a film camera):



1. Creat a duplicate layer of my image



2. Convert the duplicate to black and white (several ways to do this - I use something called the channel mixer)



3. Use the eraser tool (brush) to erase the parts of the black and white photo you want in color - i.e. as you erase the black and white layer, the color layer underneath will show through.



4. Merge your layers and save your photo.



If you have black and white to start, than the best you can do is add specific colors to parts of the photo using the pain brush tool, but there is no way to actuall have a portion of the photo in the original color.

Answer 3

If you are talking about digital images, you can find information on how to do it with Photoshop here:http://www.recolored.com/



If you are talking about conventional photography, you make a black and white print and paint in the color using water colors or special oil paints. Back before color photography was in wide use, a lot of portraits were shot in black and white and hand colored.



The TV ads were either shot digital or converted to digital from film and then manipulated.

Answer 4

There are a couple of ways, the first one is to use different color toners. The way you do this is by applying elmer's rubber cement to the areas that you don't want colored, after doing so you dip your picture into the toner. let it dry on a screen for 24 hours. use dry the rubber cement just rubs off.



The other way i know how is to use photo coloring markers.The brand is Marshall's try www.misterart.com

these work pretty well, you can also do it with a brush and special oils but that gets messy.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

back in the day i used 2 do b/w photography & ofter you make a print u can put some stuff (forgot what it was) on the spots u wanted 2 make or have color in it then u use a toner (what ever color u want) dip the pitcher in it . the stuff mixes with the toner & gives it color. i did this B/W pitcher of a head shot of this chick i knew then i used toner & did her eyes blue turned out cool still have it framed.

Answer 7

ive under no circumstances executed it with photograph supervisor. yet I honestly have photoshop the place theres is a gadget to empty out coloration utilising an airbrush like gadget. in case you get get right of entry to to Photoshop all you do is drain out coloration from chosen aspects and save the different aspects coloration

Answer 8

I take digital black and white photos then alter them in my Paint Shop Pro program.



(I think most of that is just done digitally now instead of actual filters.)