take a B&W photo and turn a rose that the subject is holding into a red flower again and leave the rest of it B&W? Thanks a lot. David1942
Welcome to UHH. You might go to to the Post Processing forum and re-post your question there. That section, like others, are specific and very helpful. Go to the Photography Forum link and at the bottom you will find a tab that says All Sections. Click on it and you will see a complete listing of all forums. Click on the Post Processing link and you'll be there. Good luck.
davidheald1942 wrote:
take a B&W photo and turn a rose that the subject is holding into a red flower again and leave the rest of it B&W? Thanks a lot. David1942
Why do you want to take it in black and white?
I haven't tried this, but... I'd be tempted to take the photo in color, then use Lightroom or Photoshop to turn everything except the flower to B+W.
I use Picasa for simple PP and it has an editing feature called 'focal B&W' that will let you keep the rose red and have the rest in B&W.
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davidheald1942 wrote:
take a B&W photo and turn a rose that the subject is holding into a red flower again and leave the rest of it B&W? Thanks a lot. David1942
Its called "selective color", and many modern DSLR cameras will do it in-camera for you, very easily (it will be in the retouch menu). By the way, you cannot do it with a B&W image, you have to use a color image and convert everything except the selected color to B&W.
Thanks a lot David. I'm an "old dog" & I don't learn as fast as I used to. Again, Thank you
David, welcome to the Hog.
Are you using film, then plan to scan it? It would not be hard, though I've never done that.
If you're shooting digital, and you shoot raw, you are actually shooting color, and the red is still there.
If shooting film, I just assume most PP programs would do it, certainly Adobe can.
But selective color is VERY common. Good luck. ;-)
SS
MT Shooter wrote:
Its called "selective color", and many modern DSLR cameras will do it in-camera for you, very easily (it will be in the retouch menu). By the way, you cannot do it with a B&W image, you have to use a color image and convert everything except the selected color to B&W.
MT, can it be done in Nikon D7100?
davidheald1942 wrote:
take a B&W photo and turn a rose that the subject is holding into a red flower again and leave the rest of it B&W? Thanks a lot. David1942
I don't think it is dumb at all I used CS-3 to convert these. Create a new layer, convert to black and white, then erase the part you want to be in color
cmc4214 wrote:
I don't think it is dumb at all I used CS-3 to convert these. Create a new layer, convert to black and white, then erase the part you want to be in color
this is a quick explanation, I got info from a magazine though I can't remember what, or when. Also the one with the yellow flowers took me about 8-10 hrs. to do (a lot of detail in leaves) the other only 1 or 2
You take the photograph in colour and convert to black and white then you can add colour back like this.
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