Newbie Q – Color to Black

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eddiec
Jul 2, 2004
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hi everyone,

Having recently downloaded Photoshop I am trying to do some newbie image manipulation. I have an object that I have picked out with the magic lassoo tool and I now want to convert this paret of the image to black only (remove all color from it).

There is an article on the adobe site at
http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html that talks about converting color to B&W, but I only want to convert to black.

Help!

TIA

eddiec 🙂
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edjh
Jul 2, 2004
eddiec wrote:
hi everyone,

Having recently downloaded Photoshop I am trying to do some newbie image manipulation. I have an object that I have picked out with the magic lassoo tool and I now want to convert this paret of the image to black only (remove all color from it).

There is an article on the adobe site at
http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html that talks about converting color to B&W, but I only want to convert to black.

Help!

TIA

eddiec 🙂
Try Image>Adjust>Threshold.

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eddiec
Jul 2, 2004
Cool 🙂

How does that work?

"edjh" wrote in message
eddiec wrote:
hi everyone,

Having recently downloaded Photoshop I am trying to do some newbie image manipulation. I have an object that I have picked out with the magic
lassoo
tool and I now want to convert this paret of the image to black only
(remove
all color from it).

There is an article on the adobe site at
http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html that talks about
converting
color to B&W, but I only want to convert to black.

Help!

TIA

eddiec 🙂
Try Image>Adjust>Threshold.

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http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html
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edjh
Jul 2, 2004
eddiec wrote:
Cool 🙂

How does that work?

"edjh" wrote in message

eddiec wrote:

hi everyone,

Having recently downloaded Photoshop I am trying to do some newbie image manipulation. I have an object that I have picked out with the magic

lassoo

tool and I now want to convert this paret of the image to black only

(remove

all color from it).

There is an article on the adobe site at
http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html that talks about

converting

color to B&W, but I only want to convert to black.

Help!

TIA

eddiec 🙂

Try Image>Adjust>Threshold.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html
From the Help files:

The Threshold command converts grayscale or color images to high-contrast, black-and-white images. You can specify a certain level as a threshold. All pixels lighter than the threshold are converted to white; all pixels darker are converted to black. The Threshold command is useful for determining the lightest and darkest areas of an image.

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Pjotr Wedersteers
Jul 2, 2004
"edjh" wrote in message
eddiec wrote:
hi everyone,

Having recently downloaded Photoshop I am trying to do some newbie image manipulation. I have an object that I have picked out with the magic
lassoo
tool and I now want to convert this paret of the image to black only
(remove
all color from it).

There is an article on the adobe site at
http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html that talks about
converting
color to B&W, but I only want to convert to black.

Help!

TIA

eddiec 🙂
While this would work in case you want black or white, I would use another method in general. Just make sure you select the foreground colour you want, pick a nice huge brush and simply paint over the image making sure you cover all of the selected area.
If you paint it in a new layer instead you even keep the underlying original info, should you want to go back or change the selection.

If what you want is change the part you selected to black and white (grayscale) rather than just full black like you wrote, make the selection and choose Image-Adjustments-Desaturate. That filters all color from the selected bits while leaving the brightness/contrast untouched.

HTH

Pjotr

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