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Selective Colouring

2007.05.29















Practising with selective colouring, these are only rough drafts and need finishing off.

The Process.

Open your digital image in Adobe Photoshop.

With your file open, go to the layers menu and click the half black and half white circle at the bottom of the window. (If your window is not open, go to Windows>Layers) Now go to Channel Mixer.

In the Channel Mixer dialog box, tick the Monochrome box. In the Source Levels section, set Red - 40%, Green - 60%, and Blue -10%. Press OK.


Your image should now be Black and White. If it is, you are on the right track. Now get the Eraser and set it to whichever size will allow you to erase the parts of your image that you would like in color.

Just click on the parts that should be in color and you will see how this works wonders by changing it back to color. Erase what you need to stay in color and the remainder of the image will stay black and white.

Just save the image as you please and you're done!

Also available to view HERE.
10 Comments
Vanouch Excellent set, so beautiful, thx for the tips. :-)
Vanouch · 2007-05-29: 06:04
Nachogarcia splendid set and nice dog!!!
Nachogarcia · 2007-05-29: 06:16
longimanus THanks for the tips, wanted always to try! My favourite is your shot with the yellow butterfly!
longimanus · 2007-05-29: 06:23
OutOfReach GREAT!
OutOfReach · 2007-05-29: 07:06
RozariaS good set and it's great you wrote those tips!
RozariaS · 2007-05-29: 07:34
Lurch Thanks everyone, glad you all like them, now go get to work..!!!
Lurch · 2007-05-29: 09:20
Shanti Very nice.
Shanti · 2007-05-29: 14:09
martafoto very nice effect!
martafoto · 2007-05-31: 09:01
t2d4th Great effect! #4 looks like it should be in a full layout of a magazine...amazing and beautiful. The dof and the selective color of the image are perfect.
t2d4th · 2007-06-02: 12:00
darkwater27 Great work , I really like the selective color style, I need to learn how to do it with photo shop.

I'm a dog lover as well, nice set!!
darkwater27 · 2007-08-25: 09:59
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