For an assignment I have, I need to take a picture and use a color focal point and make everything in the back, black and white. And leave the flower or object of interest as a color, I know I can do that on myspace, but how. And it has to be really precise. Like where I can go in with a drawing tool and mark what I want colored.
Download a copy of the Gimp. (it’s free)
http://download.cnet.com/GIMP/3000-2192_4-10073935.html
Follow this tutorial
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/
I suggest that you get your own editor. Photo Shop is the best (in my opinion), and most popular. But it is expensive, $700 new, $200 upgrade. Photo Shop Elements is a very good, and much less expensive, alternative.
Either way, the easiest way, at least for me is to:
1. Make a copy of the original. Never edit your original.
2. Create a layer from the background.
3. Duplicate that layer.
4. Desaturate one of the two layers.
5. Erase, and make transparent, everything except the flower, which is still in color, in the other layer.
6. Make sure the flower’s layer is on top of the black and white layer.
Another way to do this are to cut the flower out of the color layer and paste it into the desaturated layer. I prefer the method I explained as it keeps the two images positioned exactly, no chance of having the flower be too high, low, big, small, off center.
For more information on how to work these programs, just do a Google search using the name of whatever editor you use, and the word tutorial. example: "Photo shop tutorial"
Good luck.
References :
Photo Shop CS4: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/compare/
Version 5 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-Elements-OLD-VERSION/dp/B001DMBWXS
Download a copy of the Gimp. (it’s free)
http://download.cnet.com/GIMP/3000-2192_4-10073935.html
Follow this tutorial
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/
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