returning color to greyscale

Dick,

I’m not sure if you can do it from converting to grayscale, but you may be able to do it through desaturation. Desaturation keeps information in the original color channels. Open your image, go to IMAGE > ADJUST > DESATURATE or press SHFT+CTRL+U. Then use your history brush to selectively add color back in.

Corey 🙂

"ross" wrote in message

I want to take a photo and make it grayscale and then return spot colors

to

it. Colors from the original photo. I have seen it done. Any advise here?

I

appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross

"ross" wrote:

I want to take a photo and make it grayscale and then return spot colors to it. Colors from the original photo. I have seen it done. Any advise here? I appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross

You want to:

Handpaint the B&W image
*or*
Use layer effects

Google is your friend.

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These are interesting effects and while I have used this style I think I may have gone a long way round 🙂

Articus

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"ross" wrote:

I want to take a photo and make it grayscale and then return spot colors to it. Colors from the original photo. I have seen it done. Any advise here? I appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross

You want to:

Handpaint the B&W image
*or*
Use layer effects

Google is your friend.

The Doormouse

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It is in the desaturate, but no luck using history brush. I think the process entails using the lasso and erasure, but not sure. Thanks, Dick Ross "Articus Drools" wrote in message

Both please The Doormouse

These are interesting effects and while I have used this style I think I

may

have gone a long way round 🙂

Articus

"The Doormouse" wrote in message

"ross" wrote:

I want to take a photo and make it grayscale and then return spot colors to it. Colors from the original photo. I have seen it done. Any advise here? I appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross

You want to:

Handpaint the B&W image
*or*
Use layer effects

Google is your friend.

The Doormouse

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I did try the history procedure again and had some luck. Thank you, Dick Ross
"ross" wrote in message

It is in the desaturate, but no luck using history brush. I think the process entails using the lasso and erasure, but not sure. Thanks, Dick

Ross

"Articus Drools" wrote in message

Both please The Doormouse

These are interesting effects and while I have used this style I think I

may

have gone a long way round 🙂

Articus

"The Doormouse" wrote in message

"ross" wrote:

I want to take a photo and make it grayscale and then return spot colors to it. Colors from the original photo. I have seen it done.

Any

advise here? I appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross

You want to:

Handpaint the B&W image
*or*
Use layer effects

Google is your friend.

The Doormouse

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"Articus Drools" wrote:

These are interesting effects and while I have used this style I think I may have gone a long way round 🙂

This question pops up here occasionally – Google it, and you will get lots of hits.

Basically, you have the B&W image underneath, and painted layers over that, using blending modes like "color".

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Dick,

I’m not sure if you can do it from converting to grayscale, but you may be able to do it through desaturation. Desaturation keeps information in the original color channels. Open your image, go to IMAGE > ADJUST > DESATURATE or press SHFT+CTRL+U. Then use your history brush to selectively add color back in.

Corey 🙂

"ross" wrote in message

I want to take a photo and make it grayscale and then return spot colors

to

it. Colors from the original photo. I have seen it done. Any advise here?

I

appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross

Or mask off the area that you wish to keep in origianl color, and then do an Adjustment Layer>Desaturate for the rest of the photograph. This will also allow you to tweak the area where the greyscale effect is to take place, and to go back to any level of Desaturation/Saturation, that you may choose.

Hunt

ross wrote:

I want to take a photo and make it grayscale and then return spot colors to it. Colors from the original photo. I have seen it done. Any advise here? I appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross

Channel Mixer set to Monochrome. Do it on one layer and mask out the areas you want left in color so the color shows through from the layer below.

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