Photoshop Elements 10: Hello! I am new to photography, and am currently using the trial version of Photoshop Elements 10. I Can't for the life of me figure out how to get partial color...

wcasey Loc: Kansas City

Hello! I am new to photography, and am currently using the trial version of Photoshop Elements 10. I Can't for the life of me figure out how to get partial color in a black and white photo. I see how to take the color photo, and turn it to black and white, then I get lost. I have watched several tutorials on it, but none seem to work. I am completely lost when it comes to the layers... any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

wolfman

wcasey wrote:

Hello! I am new to photography, and am currently using the trial version of Photoshop Elements 10. I Can't for the life of me figure out how to get partial color in a black and white photo. I see how to take the color photo, and turn it to black and white, then I get lost. I have watched several tutorials on it, but none seem to work. I am completely lost when it comes to the layers... any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Here's a good tutorial that's fairly easy to follow.
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/video/elements-9-easy
This will also work in Elements 10.

phoneguy55 Loc: upstate NY

wcasey wrote:

Hello! I am new to photography, and am currently using the trial version of Photoshop Elements 10. I Can't for the life of me figure out how to get partial color in a black and white photo. I see how to take the color photo, and turn it to black and white, then I get lost. I have watched several tutorials on it, but none seem to work. I am completely lost when it comes to the layers... any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

just now reading a great book on Layers, by Matt Kloskowski. In very basic terms you just need to create a copy of the background layer, so you have two versions of the color photo in the layers window. Then click once on the new (top) layer and make it black and white, then use the
eraser tool to remove the black and white ....which will show the color layer below. There are other ways to do it, to be sure,...but this is the very basic approach.

wcasey Loc: Kansas City

Thanks! I will try both of these ways!

MtnMan Loc: ID

Hey, Wolfman:

Outstanding! Thank you so much.

Regards,
Larry Leach

wolfman wrote:

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wolfman

lleach wrote:

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Your welcome Larry. There alot of good tutorials, of which some are free. I'm seriously considering joining that site.

Dria Loc: Ohio

Staples has Elements 10 for 69.99 this week and Elements + premiere Elements 10 for 99.99 this week.

wolfman

Dria wrote:

Staples has Elements 10 for 69.99 this week and Elements + premiere Elements 10 for 99.99 this week.

Picked my copy up last month for 69.99 out the door from Newegg.

MtnMan Loc: ID

I'm going for $49 for Elements at Costco starting Thursday!

;-)

Regards,
Larry Leach

Meredith Images Loc: Stratford, CT

Photoshop Elements Techniques is an AWESOME magazine & website! The tutorial mentioned above is one of over 800 on the site for members only! I do a lot of teaching of Elements and this helps me come up with projects for classes.

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Meredith Images Loc: Stratford, CT

Let's try the code again....the period I put at the end confused it!!

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bratz4us Loc: New Hampshire

Is This what You Mean?? I use Coral Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 If The others don't work for you I can walk you thru step by step n Try to help :-)

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Layers are the one thing in Corel that defeats me repeatedly, books don't seem to help, If you don't mind I would appreciate a short step by step, Bob.

focus teacher

I did a short online course with Kim Klassen. She offers a free course called Skinny Mini. I found it very helpful for beginners. Here's a link to her page.
http://www.kimklassencafe.com/photoshopecourses/

bratz4us Loc: New Hampshire

Thanks I will take a Look :-)