How do i change color/highlight only some parts of the image

[anilkumar1261]

Hi,

Pl help with 2 questions.

1-Need to highlight the pigeon and the plants (growing among the steps). How do I do it with photoshop? All suggestions welcome.

2-Is there a way in photoshop to crop so that the picture does not magnify or zoom? Everytime I crop, the rest of the image becomes bigger.




Thanks so much

[windrider86]

The reason your image seems bigger is because you are removing part of the image and the rest is now filling the frame. You have actually made the image smaller.

You mentioned highlighting the pigeon and the plants, does that mean you want them brighter or more colorful, or both?

[anilkumar1261]

Originally Posted by windrider86

The reason your image seems bigger is because you are removing part of the image and the rest is now filling the frame. You have actually made the image smaller.

You mentioned highlighting the pigeon and the plants, does that mean you want them brighter or more colorful, or both?

When I crop, I want the rest of the image to not fill the frame, as the objects magnify and increase in size. Any idea on how to retain the original size of the uncropped objects?

Yes, I want to make the pigeon and the plants more colorful.

Thanks

[Free]

Originally Posted by anilkumar1261

When I crop, I want the rest of the image to not fill the frame, as the objects magnify and increase in size. Any idea on how to retain the original size of the uncropped objects?

Yes, I want to make the pigeon and the plants more colorful.

Thanks

Sorry, don't really get what you mean?

Cropping is chopping bits off the image. In photshop the image will then resize to fit in your screen. If you don't want it to resize on your screen you can zoom out a bit, but I can't see the point???

Or are you wanting to keep the same ratio when you crop?

[kencaleno]

Here's how to go with selective color:

To convert to Black & White then selectively colourize

New adjustment layer> Hue/Saturation
De-saturate
F7 (or click on layer mask)
Press ”D”
Click on brush tool

Regards, Ken

[Saralonde]

I'm not sure what you mean about cropping either.

To up the saturation of the bird and plants, try Hue/Saturation and move the saturation levels for blue and green to the right.

This picture seems a bit over-sharpened, so you might want to tone that down a bit.

[peeperita]

this image intrigued me with it's overall contrast work that you did.....and the challenge of highlighting what you wanted highlighted......the sharpening that you did added even more white to the image.....so, i thought.....what if i toned down the background first?....

if you don't mind me doing so, here's the quick edit that i did......to tone down most of the image i duplicated the background and made a layer mask that selected some of the plants and the bird.....i deleted them from this layer and set the blending mode to multiply to see if it would tone things down some and it did.....making the selected bird and greens appear brighter by comparison.....



if the edit bothers you, i'll remove it immediately....

peeper

[anilkumar1261]

Originally Posted by Free

Sorry, don't really get what you mean?

Cropping is chopping bits off the image. In photshop the image will then resize to fit in your screen. If you don't want it to resize on your screen you can zoom out a bit, but I can't see the point???

Or are you wanting to keep the same ratio when you crop?

I am learning photoshop. sorry, for being naive on this one. Just want to retain the same ratio. Let me explain, I want to crop the picture but i don't want the rest of the image to fill in the area.

[anilkumar1261]

Originally Posted by peeperita

this image intrigued me with it's overall contrast work that you did.....and the challenge of highlighting what you wanted highlighted......the sharpening that you did added even more white to the image.....so, i thought.....what if i toned down the background first?....

if you don't mind me doing so, here's the quick edit that i did......to tone down most of the image i duplicated the background and made a layer mask that selected some of the plants and the bird.....i deleted them from this layer and set the blending mode to multiply to see if it would tone things down some and it did.....making the selected bird and greens appear brighter by comparison.....



if the edit bothers you, i'll remove it immediately....

peeper

thanks so much. let me try this one with photoshop or Capture NX 2.

[anilkumar1261]

Originally Posted by kencaleno

Here's how to go with selective color:

To convert to Black & White then selectively colourize

New adjustment layer> Hue/Saturation
De-saturate
F7 (or click on layer mask)
Press ”D”
Click on brush tool

Regards, Ken

thanks so much for your inputs. I am trying them. will write back when i get stuck