how do you make a picture partly b&w, and a part the original color?

Question

A friend of mine is curious as to how to do this.
You know,
people have those photos where the person or part of the picture will be in black and white,
and then objects, or a small part of the picture will be in the original color.
a mostly black and white pic, with one or a few colored parts.
Like, I know a friend of mine has a picture that is all black and white of her, but then the flower she is holding is hot pink.

My friend is just wondering how to do this, and/or what programs you need in order to do this, and how to get those programs.

Answer 1

So what you're talking about is called "Popping Color".



This is how you do it on Photoshop



(you can download a free photoshop trial from the Apple website- works on Macs, but I'm not sure about Windows):



1) Make sure your Toolbar, Layers, and Options are on the screen (if not, go to WINDOWS>LAYERS, WINDOWS>OPTIONS, and WINDOWS>TOOLS)



2) Duplicate the picture on another layer. Do this by clicking CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V, CTRL-V. (Apple-A, etc. for Macs). You should now have three layers of the same picture- background, layer 1, and layer 2.



3) Go to layer 1. Select Desaturate (under IMAGE>ADJUSTMENT>DESATURATE)



4) Go to layer 2. Select whatever object(s) you want to remain Colored. (select using a Lasso tool or Quick Select tool on the tool bar. for different types of lassos: right click on the lasso button, then select an appropriate lasso.) When everything is selected, inverse the selection (SELECT>INVERSE)



5) Layer 2: apply a layer mask (LAYER>LAYER MASK>REVEAL ALL)



6) Layer 2: make sure you're foreground color is black. Your background color should be white. Now, color everything (except what you selected to be Colored) on layer 2 black.



7) Merge layers. Do this by highlighting all layers, then right-clicking and select merge layers or flatten image. Save as a .jpg



8) That's it! Better look fabulous now...

Answer 2

See http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AnX6gvAjq_INpcAVx07xKepIzKIX?p=how+do+I+make+a+photo+with+only+one+color for well over 2,000 times that this question has been asked before. Each time it will have 5 answers or more, so you will have 10,000 answers to choose from. One of them will work with your software.



Or, come back and tell us exactly what image editting program you are using and maybe there is someone here who knows about that program who cangive you a meaningful answer.



Or, since you want to buy a program consider Photoshop Elements 5.0.



Start with a color photo. If you want to add color to a black and white photo, you will have to be very careful, patient and skillful with the paintbrush tool.



This is one way that you can do it in Photoshop Elements. Maybe this is helpful for other image editors as well. It would be helpful to print this out and follow along. It's easy to do, but you must do the steps in order. Perhaps your own image editor has similar commands. If not, you might want to add details or post a new question to tell us what software you will be using.



1. Open the image you wish to alter.



2. Save the image using a different name than the original name so that you don't lose your original.



3. Use any selection tool you wish to outline the object whose color you wish to preserve. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is pretty quick, but the regular Lasso Tool might be more precise.



3-A. Use the erase tool to erase any color that you do NOT wish to preserve.



4. Hit [CTRL]+[C] to copy the selection.



5. Hit [SHIFT]+[CTRL]+[N] to make a new blank layer.

(Name it if you want, but you can accept "Layer 1.")



6. Hit [CTRL]+[V] to place the selection in the blank layer.



7. Move back to the background layer by clicking on that layer in the layers palette. (on the right of your screen)



8. Hit [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[U] to remove all color.



8-A. ALTERNATE APPROACH No. 1: Hit [CTRL]+[U] and use sliders to desaturate, leaving a hint of color present.



8-B. ALTERNATE APPROACH No. 2: Use a "Convert to Black and White" utility, if your software offers this. In Photoshop Elements, the command is [ALT]+[CTRL]+[B].



9. Hit [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[E] to merge the layers.



10. Save your work.

Answer 3

Nikon NX program is a lot easier to do this than Photoshop

All you need to do is to convert the photo to Black and White then use the minus brush to remove what you want in color.

There is a 30 day trial for the program.

http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=61



This what I used on these Photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=617150350&size=l



http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=506790729&size=o