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May 14, 2006, 09:23 AM
 
im not very photo tech like much of you probably are, but, what is it called when you can take a color picture, keep one of the colors in the picture, and make the rest of the picture black and white. for example, there is a picture of me wearing a blue shirt. is there a way to make the blue shirt stay,and everything else go b and w?
     
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May 14, 2006, 09:42 AM
 
I've got no idea what it's called but you can easily Photoshop/(Elements?) to do that.
     
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May 15, 2006, 08:55 AM
 
A duo-tone
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May 15, 2006, 11:14 AM
 
Originally Posted by Pele137
im not very photo tech like much of you probably are, but, what is it called when you can take a color picture, keep one of the colors in the picture, and make the rest of the picture black and white. for example, there is a picture of me wearing a blue shirt. is there a way to make the blue shirt stay,and everything else go b and w?


Yes there is...

Create 2 duplicate layers (total 3 layers preserving the original intact).
1. Duplicate layer 1: Go to Image>Adjustments>Hue Saturation. Slide "saturation" left to eliminate color. Layer will turn "black and white".
2. Duplicate layer 2: Select your tool of choice: i.e, lasso, polygon lasso - whatever, outline the shirt. Invert (Select>Inverse) and delete all but the shirt. Layer 2 blue shirt will appear over layer 1 "black" and white picture.
3.Save as a PSD file in case you want to go back and finess or change things.
4. Flatten and save to desired size format i.e., EPS, TIF JPG, CMYK, RGB.
     
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May 23, 2006, 04:54 PM
 
A quick and dirty way of doing this.
Desaturate the image, then use the history brush to bring the color back in the desired area.
     
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Jun 21, 2006, 01:27 PM
 
USING PHOTOSHOP (Elements 2.0)
1)Select all the image
2)With the polygonal lasso tool under the feature "substract from selection" select the Tshirt.(to select the Tshirt it might be easier to zoom in a fair amount)
3)Go in -Enhance then -Adjust colour -Remove Colour
     
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Jun 21, 2006, 02:30 PM
 
Originally Posted by TurboMac
A duo-tone
nope. Not with the effect he's going for.
     
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Jun 21, 2006, 03:05 PM
 
You could also use the sponge tool and desturate everything around the shirt.
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