Mono, with a Touch of Colour - New Tutorial

[Darren Rowse]

I've just published a photoshop tutorial over on the main blog from our very own henryscat.

Feel free to discuss it here or over there.

[Bail]

Hmmm, learned something new. Never knew what the history brush was used for.

I usally duplicate the layer, desaturate, apply layermask and fill it want I want to be in color with a regular brush then flatten the image.

[googlit]

similarly, if you want to add color that wasn't there before, create a new layer above your pic (which can be in either color or b&w) and change its blending mode to color. Then pick a paintbrush and a color, and start painting. The paintbrush's blending mode should be normal.

so you can do something along these lines... it's a flickrfly.

[henryscat]

Originally Posted by diyosa

Nooooo.. not a cut outs tutorial. I think it's a neat trick and good to know but for me cut-outs very very rarely add to a photo, they seem to just be unnecessary and overdone in most cases. Sure there are good ones but for me it takes from an image.

I agree - they are overused in most cases but it's only fair that people have the option to be able to do it themselves if they so wish.
And the bottom line is that clients LOVE them! And they are the ones that matter when you are selling their photos to them.

[Nicole]

Just in case anyone has read this and wondered how to do this in Elements if you don't have CS2, I was having a look at this last night. Thankfully, it's just as easy.
1. Create a new Hue/Saturation Layer above your picture
2. Decrease the saturation to create a b&w image
3. Use the normal eraser on the Hue/Saturation layer and that will erase the parts of that layer bringing back the original layer where you've erased.

I also played around with adding other layers in the middle to change colours around as well.

I'm probably the only person working with Elements that it took a few minutes to figure out how to replicate this, but thought I'd try to save others the trouble if they were in the same situation

[ryan97ou]

here is my try:

[Merlyn]

Originally Posted by Nicole

Just in case anyone has read this and wondered how to do this in Elements if you don't have CS2, I was having a look at this last night. Thankfully, it's just as easy.
1. Create a new Hue/Saturation Layer above your picture
2. Decrease the saturation to create a b&w image
3. Use the normal eraser on the Hue/Saturation layer and that will erase the parts of that layer bringing back the original layer where you've erased.

I also played around with adding other layers in the middle to change colours around as well.

I'm probably the only person working with Elements that it took a few minutes to figure out how to replicate this, but thought I'd try to save others the trouble if they were in the same situation

Nicole, I use CS2 and I do itthe same as you do in PSE. Quick and easy.
Sometimes I will open up the photo again, if it is a high detailed picture, and set it off to the side to give me something to go by in .

[Merlyn]

Originally Posted by Merlyn

Nicole, I use CS2 and I do itthe same as you do in PSE. Quick and easy.
Sometimes I will open up the photo again, if it is a high detailed picture, and set it off to the side to give me something to go by in .

Forgot to add, make sure your foreground and background colors are set to black and white. Black foreground to erase or switch color to white foreground to correct any errors you make.

[Darren Rowse]

Thanks to everyone who has been busily digging the post. It's been linked to on lifehacker and is rising the ranks of digg here which is bringing some nice traffic into the site and new members to these forums.

Looks like it could be a busy day traffic wise and that we might have some welcoming of new people to do. Well done team.

[ryan97ou]

i have been a user of the flickr discussions and one aspect of those forums that i love is how they have an RSS feed that i can subscribe to. do the new forums have anything similar, so i can get all the posts/replies sent right to my rss reader automatically instead of having to check the forum all the time. thanks