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I think it works quite well...thanks for the neat shot and the info. Tom.

Tom's right, it would be more helpful if I had explained how I had done it so...

Create a copy of the background layer
Use the channel mixer to convert the duplicate layer to monochrome
Create a layer mask and paint on it to reveal the layer underneath. As I moved away from the sun I decreased the opacity of the brush, to about 10% I think, to help it blend in better.

Looking at it now I think it lacks a bit of punch, maybe I should have used an image with stronger colours to start with. I have tons of sunrise/set pics I'll fiddle around and see if I can come up with something a little better. :)

Andy

www.natural-photo.co.uk

"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams"

Green Buoy
Here is my first contribution to this challenge, i have posted this picture in my galery last year ...
I will try to do something else this weekend !

Attempt no.2

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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams"

For this one I played with an image from my gallery.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
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Another from my gallery...

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
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Yikes..these last ones are super to my eyes. Astro, yes, this sunrise/sunset has much better compo and the coloring works well. The bouy shot I like because of compo and the fact that the green is subdued and fits in very well. The giraffe..well, just fine! The flower..a natural and nicely done.

I better get serious and shoot a good image for this challenge soon.....Tom.

Astro, I agree with Tom, No2 shot is well worked. I am " hunting" shots like this in a gallery. Not many.

seeya Tunde

just played with this quickly of my 16 year old daughter annie and bubblegum always in her mouth -

kimmers ♥ :O)

Heres my photo for the challange.

Heres My second Photo for the challange done in PSP.

3rd and final shot. 'Bluebell Wood'

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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams"

Quote - 3rd and final shot. 'Bluebell Wood'

That is Beautiful excellent.

my home is my castel

This is my second try..I had some probs with the top of the selection on the pepper... I used the Select>coror range>then to layers etc. method, plus selection for blur.

Anyway, tonight dinner was not fresh veggies but frozen pizza.

Critique please? I have not been a true fan of selective coloring, even it I do have an idea of what makes it work. For this green bell pepper and two tomatoes, looking at it now it does not work very well. You might like it ok..I do not know.

We are used to seeing the real green of the pepper and of course the red of the tomatoes. Neither look good if desaturated all the way and the other is left with color. Perhaps, with only one pepper and the chopping knife the image would be better. Any thoughts? Tom.

Hi TomDart
This looks very good. But is that the real color of the tomatoes?

Here is my secont try

Magic lasso'd the green background until it was all inside the dancing ants. Used a Virtual Photographer filter to make the background "black & white" but with a bit of a bluish tint to go with the flower. I liked the subtle gradations of color I got.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

Another Virtual Photographer filter. "Reminiscing," I think.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

I still haven't gotten the hang of the whole "layers" thing in Photoshop. It seems so unnecessarily complicated. I really need to read that book! This one I used the magic wand again (did I say lasso before? I meant the wand - sorry) until all the bits of the bandana were selected. Did a reverse selection, and desaturated using the Photoshop controls. No outside filters on this one.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

Fun challenge! I always learn so much from these things. The tutorials are a bit over my head, but I did figure out a coule of different ways to make this happen. Thanks!

@ Tom: I'd love to see your pepper/tomato image done a slightly different way. Maybe if you took the original image with the original colors and desaturated everything but the knife blade? The only color then would be the reflection of the veggies in the knife. Just a thought - it might be kind of cool. (It might not, too - sometimes things look better in my head than they do on the screen!) I wouldn't "dull down" the colors that were left, I don't think.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

Heres my old garden gate given a rainbow make over. I used adjustment layers to get each colour on its own. Some great entries to date, ...good idea for a challenge too.

And another one of my daughter on an E7 route! Again using adjustment layers to desaturate the background.

Wow! That Bluebell Wood is really cool!!! I will have to try some of that kind of stuff! I love the different ideas everyone is coming up with!!! Fun stuff!!!!

Kim Hawkins

Aangus, quite well done I say. Very clean and natural.

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just a small offering

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1558851

Here is my second one: I liked it so much I had to put this one in my gallery. I used the same process, except I upped the brightness and contrast first. I like Aangus' door picture so much, that I will have to try something like that myself. Off to the drawing board......... so to speak!!! LOL :P

Kim Hawkins

Here is my third one......... I know..... it's two merged, but I had a little learning session going on and had to share. The bottom one I did first, in PS Elements 4, by using brush mask on one piece of wood at a time and then going to color variations and tweeking the colors. The top one was done in Corel Photopaint 12, by lasso mask on one piece at a time, then to select, adjust, color range, and was able to pick the new color and adjust to suit what I wanted. Both took close to equal amounts of time and I feel came out with similar results.

Kim Hawkins

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Here is my last one..taken at a 5k today. The event was to raise money for local cancer hospitals. With over 3500 entries, they did raise a little. The guy on the left was weaing bright red shorts.

The image: Too Many Shoes Look Alike.

Attached Link: What fire?

A collaberated work by myself and Chrissy, aka BibbyBear. The link here will take you to my gallery upload so it can be viewed full sized.

"Wake Me up Before You Go..."

Liam

This was a shot taken whilst laying on my back in the Chapter House at York Minster on 7th October 2007 and I must admit, Carl aka rockstrider got some much better ones than I did!

It took several attempts to get a reasonably clear shot of this beautiful ceiling with all it's golds, blues, yellows and of course, reds!!

I've opted to select the reds from this one and then just played with the contrast and curves for the background - I sort of like the effect but would appreciate your views on it.

Some great shots posted here already though and it's great to see so many different variations on selective colouring and the many different methods used to achieve it.

Great work everyone!!

Chrissy xx

"I don't suffer from insanity,
I enjoy every minute of it."
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CCCD Photography CCC Dezynz

Oh I love the onces with the dog and the girl.

Carl knows I like his fire truck one too.

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This isn't the type of image I would normally do this with..but, I thought I'd give it a shot

in the streets of Montpellier.

"In Life, as in Photography, things look much brighter, once you remove the lens cap"

graffitti

excellent graffiti!

YES I THOUGHT SO TOO

Agreed, it's a great shot. The selective treatment really works on this.

www.natural-photo.co.uk

"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams"

that and the graffitti artists work certainly seem to make it pop out at you....

1st entry

2nd entry

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Very interesting contest. Here is my first entry.

By the way. I've written a german tutorial for Paint Shop Pro some time ago.
Maybe somebody is interested.
www.cwhp.de/tutorials/tutorial.php

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I love walks through a forrest and sometimes it is very hard to see such a soil.

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#3....

simple shell.....

sea shell

This one was hard :-) Not sure if I really maneged to select isolate the gold pattern as well as it could be done. But I met the challenge :-)

Very impressive work for this challenge...You folks ROCK !!!

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Attached Link: Acer Japonica

2nd entry.

This was done by desaturating a background copy, then adding a layer mask at 100% opacity for the brighter leaves, and then 40% opacity for the rest.

The attached link will take you to a larger version in my gallery.

Carl.

Attached Link: mansco

This is my first attempt, "Dreamy days", I wanted it to be subtle, hope you like it and thanks for all these tips, it's a splendid way to learn, Elizabeth ;O)

This is my first try. I know nothing about CS2 I think is what i have? Not sure I did this right???

I think I got it! Wow, that was fun :) Thanks to the tutorial!

Coo, what a fun idea! I've had a great time trying this out... only now I have too many to choose from.

Oh, Um, er....

This one for the first:

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

And for number 2:

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

And for the last, I think....

This:

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

I am getting a little better at this. Now to go learn how to select more than 1 color to show :)

So many great examples of this kind of photography...impressive contributions everyone!

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

I am just so excited that I can now open my photo shop program and actually do something with it thanks to the tutorials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Attached Link: mansco

This is my 2nd entry "It was black". LOL.... Love all your works. Hugs, Elizabeth ;O)

**rmtagg,
**To reveal more than one colour use a mask method - I think something like that was in one of the tut links on the first page of this thread. I used that method, well sort of, I also had another layer on that occasion. (not used in any of the pics I've uploaded to this thread though.)

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)