Photoshop

shaggy · April 14, 2006

Hello, I have a picture that i want to remove certain colours from, like this one.

But i haven't got a clue how to do it I have tried searching on the internet. But i cant find out how to do it. If anyone can point me to a tutorial or better yet tell me how to do. That would be great.

James

Siders77 · April 14, 2006

Select the bits you want to take the colours out of with the Lasoo(sp?) tool and press CTRL and U.

NeillyB · April 14, 2006

You need to use the lasso tool (I prefer the polygonal one) and / or the magic wand to select the area you want to stay coloured / or turn black and white... once you've done that, go up to Image > Adjustments > Hue / Saturation. You can fanny about with the colours in there - 'saturation' is how you make it go black and white, by sliding it down all the way.

I'm sure there are more 'pro' methods of doing this and I concur that this 'tutorial' is complete dross but hey...

...woo

Select the bits you want to take the colours out of with the Lasoo(sp?) tool and press CTRL and U.

...or you could do that

Edited April 14, 2006 by NeillyB

Rob_P · April 14, 2006

1) Select the lasso tool, the pointed one is better ( not round one or the magnetic one)

2) Draw round the *red* thing you want to keep in colour

3) If theres more than one thing, eg. Say on a trials photo........Red gloves and a red helmet then draw round your first..... hold down shift so theres a little "+" sign next to the lasso and draw round again.

4) Once you have all your little selections you may want to feather it by a pixel or two, just to round the edges off slightly.

5) Go to select>inverse

6) In the layers box, click the half B+W circle, then click gradient map. Should be like a Black fading to gray box, click that and you should see your work complete

Any problems get back to me (Y)