GIMP help ??

[mfreg]

Hi everybody..
keeping in mind the only post processing I've ever done is play around with level adjustmets, could someone be so kind as to help me with this GIMP software I just downloaded. I would like to take a portrait and change everything but the eyes to B & W, I've looked at a bunch of tutorials and don't see anything like that covered.

thanks in advance for any help you might offer.

mike

[Chip]

This tutorial should help. What you're after is called "selective colorization."

[mfreg]

Chip, thank you so much....that is perfect. .....

regards
mike

[Chip]

Happy to help. Good luck!

[mfreg]

Chip,
I followed the step by step instructions and it worked great. Thanks again, this is so cool.
I don't know if I will ever be able to learn a fraction of whats in that software, it is so over my head. You guys that work with this stuff on a day to day basis are amazing, I don't know how you learn it, and I work with cam software every day, so I understand a little about working with layers and such. It just seems "backwards" sometimes, at least the terminology...I mean things like "un-sharp" mask..used to make things sharp, shouldn't it be a "sharp" mask ??

Anyway, I go off on tangents, thanks again.

mike