Image Editing Help

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Gary H
Mar 18, 2006
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I’m wondering how I can make a selection, and then have everything BUT say the "green colors" turn into B&W, along with the rest of the photo.

I have a bunch of pictures from yesterday. Being St. Patrick’s day and all, there are quite a bit of green items in my photo’s. Beer, shirts, signs, etc. I want to turn the photo’s into B&W photo’s, however keeping certain items green.

I hope this makese sense. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Gary

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Mike Hyndman
Mar 18, 2006
"Gary H" wrote in message
I’m wondering how I can make a selection, and then have everything BUT say the "green colors" turn into B&W, along with the rest of the photo.
I have a bunch of pictures from yesterday. Being St. Patrick’s day and all, there are quite a bit of green items in my photo’s. Beer, shirts, signs, etc. I want to turn the photo’s into B&W photo’s, however keeping certain items green.

I hope this makese sense. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Gary,

Open your image and go to Image>Adjust>Desaturate, this will turn the whole picture greyscale.
Then with the History brush (Y on keyboard) paint over the parts you want to restore to colour.

HTH
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Gary H
Mar 18, 2006
Wow, that is AWESOME! Thank you very much! Perfect.

Gary

"Mike Hyndman" wrote in message
"Gary H" wrote in message
I’m wondering how I can make a selection, and then have everything BUT say the "green colors" turn into B&W, along with the rest of the photo.
I have a bunch of pictures from yesterday. Being St. Patrick’s day and all, there are quite a bit of green items in my photo’s. Beer, shirts, signs, etc. I want to turn the photo’s into B&W photo’s, however keeping certain items green.

I hope this makese sense. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Gary,

Open your image and go to Image>Adjust>Desaturate, this will turn the whole picture greyscale.
Then with the History brush (Y on keyboard) paint over the parts you want to restore to colour.

HTH
MH
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Mike Hyndman
Mar 18, 2006
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:16:28 -0600, "Gary H"
wrote:

Wow, that is AWESOME! Thank you very much! Perfect.
Gary,

You’re welcome 😉

Just a thought, St Patrick’s day? Celebrations? Alcohol? Photography? and you managed to get some usable photos, not blurred, smashed camera, etc.,? 😉
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Mar 19, 2006
Gary,
I would do it a little differently.
When you have your image in photoshop, Go to Select, Color range. Use the color pickers to select the color you want to keep and click ok. (This may take a few shoots to get the selection correct.
Then go to Select, Inverse.
Now go to Image, Adjustment, Desaturate. (Note: I like Channel Mixer and Monochrome better).

Nath

Gary H wrote:
I’m wondering how I can make a selection, and then have everything BUT say the "green colors" turn into B&W, along with the rest of the photo.
I have a bunch of pictures from yesterday. Being St. Patrick’s day and all, there are quite a bit of green items in my photo’s. Beer, shirts, signs, etc. I want to turn the photo’s into B&W photo’s, however keeping certain items green.

I hope this makese sense. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Gary

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