nothing spectacular--just a nice holiday shot. I shot this for E-10 day a couple of weeks ago at one of the concert halls in Charlotte (NC) for the ballet, 'Nutcracker' for the holidays. The color shot was 'okay', but I never used it. I was condensing and backing up last night and saw it differently--black and white with selective color--the shot of strong color against the 'techie' contemporary building of steel and glass in b/w was more to my liking.

Diane

Yeah that was a good thought, and I'm impressed, because it never would have crossed my tiny little mind. Do you have to select everything you want in color individually, or is there some clever way to do it? Sie

D'oh! I mean, Sue. My name is Sue...:-0

This is so neat. Picnic? Why didn't you use this for the simple shape contest? Bsteph

Sue, 'tis easy smile. In any graphics app using layers, post work your color shot, copy it as new image, convert to greyscale in the manner you want (in PS, I use adjustment layer of channel mixer and choose monochrome). Tweak the b/w to what you want. Then copy it, paste it as new layer over color. I find it pretty easy to just use eraser and erase the b/w. You could also use quick mask I guess, but that would take every bit as long. Eraser works well for me, but I have graphics tablet which makes this kind of thing easy--much harder with a mouse I would guess. Diane

Awesome. You used selective color very well. A lot of times people will use a technique like this to try to create something out of nothing. I think you successfully used it when it NEEDED to be done. Very, very nice image. You should try to market this one to the concert hall or promoters of the show.