How do I make those black and white pictures with one color (Selective Color) on Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0?

Question

Is there a website that shows how to do it step by step or can you tell me how to do it?

Answer 1

If you have a color picture, open it, copy it and paste it onto a new layer. Make it b&w (go to Image --> Mode--> Grayscale, or Image --> Adjustments --> Desaturate). Then select the element you want to appear in color with the Magic Wand or the Magic Eraser tool in the b&w picture. Delete it. You should be able to see it now in its original colors, while the rest of the picture is b&w. (Actually, what you see is the object in the original underlaying picture, since you deleted it in the top layer). If the contour is fuzzy, retouch it with the eraser tool on the b&w layer.

If you don't want the object to appear in its original colors but just one color, it's the same process, only you play around with hue and saturation (Image --> Adjustments --> Hue/Saturation) until you get the color you want before copying and pasting the picture onto a new layer.

Actually, I use Photoshop CS2, but I think Photoshop Elements has the same basic features.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You have to click on new, then where it says RGB (?) color, go to Grayscale.

It works that way.



Also, you can make it a brush, and choose black as the main color and white as the secondary color (or vise versa)

Answer 3

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