How do you take a colored picture and make it black and white with and iteam still colored?

Question

So i want to have a black and white picture with a color highlight going on, and i sorta have no idea how to do it. i tried paint but it was not coming out right. Help?

Answer 1

Typically you can use Illustrator or Photoshop.

Just use the pen tool and select the item you want to still be colored, inverse the selection and desaturate the background and voila.  

Answer 2

Digitally you can do this with a program like Adobe Photoshop.

Answer 3

This should work with most graphics software.

If the item is of one bright colour, let's say red, them choose the wand option to select the red area.  You may need to adjust the tolerance levels to get it right.  You;ll see a moving dashed line around the selection.

Next go to edit and select the Copy command saving the selection.

Go to selections and choose deselect all.

Go to colours and select desaturate.

Now go to edit and select Paste.  Use the move tool to place the pasted object in the area you want.  

Then select either anchor layer, flatten image or whatever the equivalent command is in you software package and save it.

Job done.

Answer 4

for photoshop elements you

Start with the color digital file

Open the photo in elements

Duplicate the background layer

Use the lasso tool to select the person in the picture or the part of the picture you want to be stay in color ( you may be able to use the magic selections tool,brush instead, if you are using the magic selector brush just paint a squiggly line around the inside of what you want to select )

Once you have selected the area go to the select menu and choose invers, now everything you did not select is selected

go to the ehance menu - adjust color and choose remove color ( or you can go to saturation and slide the saturation down to the look you like )

Deselect the area by pressing ctr-D

If your selection is not what you want delete the background copy and start over from the step where you created it

Save under a different file name

Answer 5

Here is an easy to follow, simple tutorial I created for use with the Gimp 2.4.6 to create an image with black, white, and color:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/9befa3b4-d73d-...