How do you make a gray scale photo with color in photoshop?

Question

I want to do a gray scale, or black and white photo, with one piece of color standing out within the gray scale photo. How would I do this in photoshop?

For example I have a picture of a bride in a white dress with a red rose bouquet. I want everything except the red roses to be gray scaled.

Answer 1

Bring up photo

Duplicate photo

Make duplicate black and white or gray scale

Cut out duplicate and place on top of colored photo.

Use erase tool and erase the rose only and the color will show though the black and white photo.

then hit flatten image to finish.

Answer 2

Open your photo in Photoshop..



Then go to Layer - Duplicate Layer



Click OK



Then go to Image - Adjustments - Hue / Saturation



Drag the Saturation slider all the way to the left to make the photo black and white.



Click OK



Then get the ERASER tool from the tool box on the left side of the screen. It is usually the next tool under the clone stamp tool. Just hover your mouse over the tool, and it will say Eraser.



When you have selected the Eraser, go up to the Brush options box at the top of the screen, and click on the downfacing arrow. Set the Hardness of the brush to 100% so you will have accurate control of selection. You may also need to raise or lower the brush size to suit.



Erase away any black and white from where you want the color to be revealed.



When done go to

Layer - Flatten Image



Then just do a Save As to wherever you want to save the photo.



steve

Answer 3

there's quite a few ways to do this. the most popular way is to do selective color. however, i prefer to duplicate the layer, desaturate the new layer, create a hide all layer mask, and paint (with white) over the roses

Answer 4

It's called "Selective Color".



Here is a GIMP tutorial but it works well for Photoshop too:

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/