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03/26/2005 06:00:20 PM · #1 |
Hi Everybody,
I was wondering if using "selective color" is allowed in Basic Editing challenges. In Photoshop, this is Image > Adjust > Selective Color.
I have a photo that has a blackish background that isn't quite as black as I'd like it. I would like to use the black slider bar in the "selective color" dialog box to darken it even more.
Is this allowed in Basic Editing?
Thanks for your help. |
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03/26/2005 06:01:49 PM · #2 |
I think what you rather need is a levels adjustment, which is perfectly legit as long as it's applied to the whole image.
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03/26/2005 06:09:11 PM · #3 |
Selective color works very well to blacken an already black background without losing detail elsewhere in the photo. It does darken all blacks (or whatever color you have selected.) It is my tool of choice for this situation rather than levels which will darken more of the rest of the photo also. Curves might also work as you can choose the tone to darken.
With Selective Color you aren't choosing one part of an image - just the color.
That said - I'm not anyway affliated with those who make the rules decisions. One of them needs to give a definitive answer as to whether this considered a global adjustment (because it is applied to the entire image) or whether it is considered a more advanced tool. |
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03/26/2005 06:32:05 PM · #4 |
| I asked this question a while back and the answer I got was yes it is legal. |
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03/27/2005 12:27:23 AM · #5 |
Thanks everybody for your help. I still don't feel 100% confident that it's legal, though, so I'm bumping this so that hopefully someone on the SC will answer definitively.
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03/27/2005 12:29:25 AM · #6 |
| Yes, it's legal as you're applying the changes to the entire image. |
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03/27/2005 12:33:58 AM · #7 |
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03/27/2005 12:44:24 AM · #8 |
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03/27/2005 02:59:49 AM · #9 |
How can selective color be legal in basic editing when it states in the rules "Additionally, the use of any type of selection tool is prohibited except to select a non-feathered, non-anti-aliased rectangular area for cropping." - is not selective color by definition a selective tool? With this you are selecting part of the image, and not a 'rectanglular' one.
I could easily shoot a pic with a background of a given color and through this tool change just that part of an image.
Message edited by author 2005-03-27 03:00:41.
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03/27/2005 03:05:37 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
How can selective color be legal in basic editing when it states in the rules "Additionally, the use of any type of selection tool is prohibited except to select a non-feathered, non-anti-aliased rectangular area for cropping." - is not selective color by definition a selective tool? With this you are selecting part of the image, and not a 'rectanglular' one.
I could easily shoot a pic with a background of a given color and through this tool change just that part of an image. |
selective colour is a tool in Photoshop
you can choose different coloured chanels and adjest the colours in that channel.
It is applied to the whole picture,.. |
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