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 12/20/2004 01:08:45 PM · #1
Maybe this has been discussed before. Is there any way to do selective desaturation within the basic rules?.
 12/20/2004 01:11:10 PM · #2
There is, check out my tutorial! :)
 12/20/2004 01:31:35 PM · #3
Originally posted by Konador:
There is, check out my tutorial! :)


Thanks Konador.
 01/01/2005 10:57:21 PM · #4
Originally posted by anireno:
Maybe this has been discussed before. Is there any way to do selective desaturation within the basic rules?.


Just do not lasso anything and it should be fine. The basic rules say that as long as you desaturate the image uniformly, regardless of what colers you remove or accentuate, there should be no problem.
 01/01/2005 11:26:43 PM · #5
What's selective desaturation? :P
 01/01/2005 11:37:08 PM · #6
faidoi,

Selective desturation is where you desaturate certain parts of the image (usually to a monotone, no color at all) while leaving other areas full-colored. It's normally done by selecting the area you want to save, inverting the selection, and using hue/saturation controls to completely desaturate that selection.

Sometimes you don't completely desaturate, but you tone the colors way down in that area.

It can't be done the usual way in basic editing challenges because they don't allow selections; your controls have to be applied to the entire image.

Konador's tutorial shows a way to get a selective desaturation effect within the basic rules on certain types of images that lend themselves to the technique.

Robt.

(Or did you know all that and you're just having fun with me?)


Message edited by author 2005-01-01 23:37:51.
 01/01/2005 11:39:10 PM · #7
Originally posted by faidoi:
What's selective desaturation? :P


Here's an example!



Notice how the photograph only has the color blue and the rest is black and white? This is not how the scene actually looked, but is the end result of desaturating (kinda like erasing) every color except the blue. Thus the selective portion of the term. You do have to be careful though because the effect sometimes looks hokey or gimicky. You have to carefully select the shots that will most benefit from this treatment!

Edit: bear_music types faster, but I have an example! ;-)

Message edited by author 2005-01-01 23:40:22.
 01/01/2005 11:40:21 PM · #8
:P

Thanks, Ron :)
 01/01/2005 11:41:22 PM · #9
Originally posted by faidoi:
:P

Thanks, Ron :)


Anytime!
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