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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noone
Jul 2, 2004
In article <40e4a5b4$ says…
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 🙂

Probably the easiest way would be to fill the area of the Selection with black. To make black the active color, it needs to be atop the stack of two colors at the bottom of the Tool Palette. If it is not, click the small b/w squares to reset the colors to b/w, or press "D." The Fill bucket might be hidden below your Gradient Tool, but clicking on, and holding the mouse button until a flyout menu appears.

Hope this helps,
Hunt
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V1nc3nt
Jul 2, 2004
"eddiec" wrote in message
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 🙂
Plesase cross post. Your question has also been asnwered in alt.graphics.photoshop.
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tacitr
Jul 2, 2004
The Fill bucket
might be hidden below your Gradient Tool, but clicking on, and holding the
mouse button until a flyout menu appears.

Contrary to popular misconception, the Paint Bucket tool is not a general-purpose Fill tool. The way to fill a selection with the foreground color is to hold down Option (PC: Alt) on the keyboard and then press Delete.

The Paint Bucket is a combination of the Magic Wand and the Fill command. It looks at the color of the pixel you click on, then spreads out in all directions, filling as it goes, until it hits a pixel that is a different color. It works exactly the same way as if you had first clicked with the Magic Wand, then used the Edit->Fill command.

If you use the Paint Bucket as a Fill tool, you will likely be surprised by what happens if the selected area contains many colors. It won’t fill the entire selected area.

I don’t think I’ve touched the Paint Bucket tool in about the last seven years or so.

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noone
Jul 2, 2004
In article ,
says…
The Fill bucket
might be hidden below your Gradient Tool, but clicking on, and holding the
mouse button until a flyout menu appears.

Contrary to popular misconception, the Paint Bucket tool is not a general-purpose Fill tool. The way to fill a selection with the foreground color is to hold down Option (PC: Alt) on the keyboard and then press Delete.
The Paint Bucket is a combination of the Magic Wand and the Fill command. It looks at the color of the pixel you click on, then spreads out in all directions, filling as it goes, until it hits a pixel that is a different color. It works exactly the same way as if you had first clicked with the
Magic
Wand, then used the Edit->Fill command.

If you use the Paint Bucket as a Fill tool, you will likely be surprised by what happens if the selected area contains many colors. It won’t fill the entire selected area.

I don’t think I’ve touched the Paint Bucket tool in about the last seven
years
or so.

—
Art, literature, shareware, polyamory, kink, and more:
http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

Oops, my mistake. It used to work the way I described some versions ago. Sorry and thanks for the clarification.

Hunt

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