Can Someone Help Please???

[LynnDA]

I want to change this photo to black and white but keep the poppy red (I am going to crop the other poppy to the right in the foreground out). How do I do this? I have Lightroom, Photoscape and ViewNX software



Please help! Thanks

[RLucas]

You have to use a program that lets you use layers and masks. You have to have a color layer on bottom and a black and white layer on top. Then you would create a layer mask between the two, and paint back over where you want spots of color.
I know ViewNX, and LR don't use any type of layering. I am not sure about Photoscape?

[zona5101]

You can do it in Lightroom. in fact somebody has made a series of presets exactly for selective coloring (i don't recall where I saw them - but you can google it). You can also create your own preset if you think you'll be doing it more often:
So go into your HSL panel and in the saturation section put all the sliders to -100 except the red put that to +100 (or where ever you like it...if there are sections of red elsewhere in the pic you can use the brush with saturation to -100 and paint out any unwanted red.

[RLucas]

Originally Posted by zona5101

You can do it in Lightroom. in fact somebody has made a series of presets exactly for selective coloring (i don't recall where I saw them - but you can google it). You can also create your own preset if you think you'll be doing it more often:
So go into your HSL panel and in the saturation section put all the sliders to -100 except the red put that to +100 (or where ever you like it...if there are secions of red elsewhere in the pic you can use the brush with saturation to -100 and paint out any unwanted red.

Thanks Bruce! I never even thought of that!

[LynnDA]

Originally Posted by RLucas

You have to use a program that lets you use layers and masks. You have to have a color layer on bottom and a black and white layer on top. Then you would create a layer mask between the two, and paint back over where you want spots of color.
I know ViewNX, and LR don't use any type of layering. I am not sure about Photoscape?

Just checked and no photoscape doesn't do layers sadly, but I've followed Bruces tip in Lightroom and here is the result



Thank you both