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07/08/2010 07:56:33 AM · #1 |
there is a photo in the Chaos entry that uses a technique i'd like to mimic but i don't know if its against the basic editing rules.
i have seen this technique performed in other challenges. The photo ( i wont go into specifics, becuase it still in voting...) has certain objects in full color and the rest of the background is black and white, or in other cases the background color really toned down.
My question is how do you do that without masking individual objects, which appears to be against the rules? |
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07/08/2010 07:59:55 AM · #2 |
| You can do it several ways in Photoshop. Selective color adjustment and the channel mixer. |
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07/08/2010 08:07:10 AM · #3 |
| Yep, the key to success is that there cannot be any of the same tones in the area you want to desaturate as in the subject you want to keep in color. |
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07/08/2010 10:10:42 AM · #4 |
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07/08/2010 10:15:31 AM · #5 |
Simplified version: you have a blue dragonfly on a green leaf, so you make a hue/saturation adjustment layer and desaturate every color but blue and cyan. Or for whatever colors you have, choose the appropriate ones to desaturate to make it stand out. In general, hue/saturation is the best tool for this job, not selective color, though there are exceptions.
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