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02/20/2006 09:34:17 PM · #1 |
I want to remove color from the picture in parts but the magic wand selection tool gets too confusing and bleh. I want to smear and be soft and have a nice picture. The whole "baby's eyes, cheeks and lips are colored but the rest isnt" look. Any good tips?
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02/20/2006 09:38:55 PM · #2 |
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02/20/2006 09:53:07 PM · #3 |
Some of these help... except that I am dumb when it comes to layers and these tutorials make it look WAY too easy. None of them really tell me how to deselect color .... any tips?
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02/20/2006 09:55:43 PM · #4 |
Create a duplicate layer of the main one. Desat that layer. Then take the eraser tool and just erase the eyes. This will erase the desaturated layer over the eyes and make the lower layer, the one in color, show through. When you get the effect you want, flatten the image and you're good to go.
Edit: To desaturate the layer, you go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. I have PS CS2, so depending on the version you have, it may or may not be different. Let me know if you have any questions.
Message edited by author 2006-02-20 21:58:55.
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02/20/2006 10:06:44 PM · #5 |
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02/20/2006 10:09:56 PM · #6 |
Glad I could help. If you want to make the eyes stand out more, you can take the sponge tool, set it to saturate, and run it over the eyes a few times to bring out the blue.
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02/20/2006 10:39:51 PM · #7 |
Message edited by author 2006-02-20 22:41:21. |
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03/16/2006 06:26:03 PM · #8 |
Do what i do m8.
Take a photo and if you dont like it take another and another until you get the one you want.
Use PS to convert to Jpeg and crop and resize.
If you cant take photos you like without PS then give your camera to me and just download pics and modify them.
Photography is about what you see and not what you can achieve in PS. |
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03/16/2006 06:35:07 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by CraigF:
Photography is about what you see and not what you can achieve in PS. |
Not to be smug or argumentative, BUT sometimes part of your vision is achieved Post-process. Things such as Duotones, for example, can't be done in-camera.
Photoshop is our darkroom and unless they shot only for transparency film photographers have always used darkroom techniques to create their visions.
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03/16/2006 08:04:33 PM · #10 |
| psst*** CraigF, thats not the way to make new friends. |
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03/16/2006 08:39:00 PM · #11 |
Something like this:
Fastest but not best way is to use the brush tool (next to the bandaid looking icon).
Go to Mode and select Saturation and paint over anything that you want in black and white. Anything that you don't touch will have color remaining.
This is the easiest, fastest way but not even close to the best.
If you duplicate the layer and use the brush tool you can have more control over the b/w.
Another way is to make the whole picture b/w and then go back and color in the eyes and cheeks with color.
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03/16/2006 09:40:49 PM · #12 |
| Hey, isn't the Sponge Tool (grouped with Dodge/Burn) specifically designed to spot-desaturate? |
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03/16/2006 09:42:41 PM · #13 |
Yup, it will also spot desaturate too.
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03/16/2006 09:44:05 PM · #14 |
Wow you got to be quick around here...the pic is gone.
Hey Calamity...I think I've read elsewhere you are not to crazy about all the PS stuff... You may want to try the Demo of Microsoft Digital Image Suite. You can get right in there and do all the same stuff but in simpler terms. You can go as simple as you want or as extreme as you need, and do it quickly.
You can click Take a tour in the left column if you want to see how it works.
Message edited by author 2006-03-16 21:51:36.
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03/17/2006 08:55:11 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by dassilem:
psst*** CraigF, thats not the way to make new friends. |
I was merely stating my opinion on the over use of PS. |
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03/17/2006 09:04:10 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by CraigF:
Originally posted by dassilem:
psst*** CraigF, thats not the way to make new friends. |
I was merely stating my opinion on the over use of PS. |
That may be, but here we have someone who WANTS to make a selectively-desaturated picture and is asking for advice on how to do it, and people are trying to help her. It's not something you can do in-camera. There's NO reason for you to come in and put down these efforts; if it's not something you, personally, want to do, you can just keep quiet about it.
Robt.
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03/17/2006 11:45:53 AM · #17 |
| Apologies..I appear to have misread the first post. |
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03/17/2006 12:39:37 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by CraigF:
Apologies..I appear to have misread the first post. |
Thanks, Craig. And I apologize for sounding harsh. I had been up all night and shooting through dawn and processing. I've had some sleep now.
Peace,
Robt.
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03/17/2006 02:42:29 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by CraigF:
Do what i do m8.
Take a photo and if you dont like it take another and another until you get the one you want.
Use PS to convert to Jpeg and crop and resize.
If you cant take photos you like without PS then give your camera to me and just download pics and modify them.
Photography is about what you see and not what you can achieve in PS. |
Wow. $600 for a crop and resize tool.
Wow.
No thanks.
:) |
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03/17/2006 02:51:54 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Originally posted by CraigF:
Do what i do m8.
Take a photo and if you dont like it take another and another until you get the one you want.
Use PS to convert to Jpeg and crop and resize.
If you cant take photos you like without PS then give your camera to me and just download pics and modify them.
Photography is about what you see and not what you can achieve in PS. |
Wow. $600 for a crop and resize tool.
Wow.
No thanks.
:) |
...and....the packaging makes an awesome paperweight too !!!
:-P |
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03/17/2006 03:01:13 PM · #21 |
1 Make a duplicate of the original (background) layer
2 Set the blend mode to color on the duplicated layer
3 Select the paint brush set to black
4 Paint away the color
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03/19/2006 08:33:59 PM · #22 |
You are so right! Ansel Adams used post work in all of his images.
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by CraigF:
Photography is about what you see and not what you can achieve in PS. |
Not to be smug or argumentative, BUT sometimes part of your vision is achieved Post-process. Things such as Duotones, for example, can't be done in-camera.
Photoshop is our darkroom and unless they shot only for transparency film photographers have always used darkroom techniques to create their visions. |
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