I like very much the selective colouring here, Tom!! Great job. If I ever get photoshop I would dearly love to try this kind of postwork on my works. So glad you are back online. Na night, God Bless and Hugs :-) Diane.

To be honest I'm not fan about this process, but ....I've done quite the same in a recent post ;-))) ...Seriously I may see your pict in a high contrasted B&W focused on the boat and the rowers and a bit darkness arround it ... It's just IMHO Tom ....

Selective coloring with rippled water reflections is always tricky and very difficult. Especially when the reflected colors are altered by the color of the water. I'm amazed that you managed to get it so good; it looks flawless. The colors, also in the reflections, are perfectly and accurately isolated and represented. Maybe, to make the selective coloring stand out more, the image could use a bit more contrast and saturation, to make the colors 'pop'... Considering the image in general, I'm not sure if the selective coloring adds something substantial here, but I suppose that you tried this as an exercise..? In that case I can only say one thing: very, very well done!

Hello Tom... Thank you for your recent post on the thread! I like the way you think, talk and even you present your art! Now i kinda agree with Girsempa about the ripples water and reflections tho.. But again, with the color range tutorial, its not that difficult at all. Sigh! Now I did understand your question and what are you looking to hear/read.. First, again i will tell that you did a very good job on both, the selective colouring, and the shot it self! About the multiple selective colouring on a single tone image, to me, it works only in either one of two ways. 1- A different shades of a single colour! 2- Max of two colours that can fit each other! I guess the first point is clear right!, now about the second.. I mean, I can see four different colours in your post! One we'll ignore for now. Lets talk about the other three.. I see the yellow in the boat, I see the blue on one of of the model's (LOL @ MODELS WITHOUT A FACE) and the pink that first girl is waring! "Now I will not count some other shades of pink and red on the second person from the left, sigh!" You are a photography, and i bet you know graphic designs, now does these colours look right to you if you will see them in real life, lets say some one that you know waring the three colours.. Blue jeans, yellow shirt, and a pink cap! Does that sounds/feels right to you! I guess not, just like me.. There is one extra and its totally not needed.. I say the pink! The pink doesn't fit with blue, or yellow! Unless its a Halloween party :)) But the blue and yellow fits real well eh! You got my point here! I know my English sucks, but hopefully you will reach my brains :)) If you will take off the pink totally and convert the second girl t-shirt from the back (IRON ON TRANSFER) into black and white.. And leave only the YELLOW AND BLUE! That will be an eye catching piece! Now remember when i mentioned that i can see 4 different colours! I don't know really how is every one's monitor or to which degree its calibrated! But trust me, i can see a lot of different things on mine that no one else (MAYBE) can see! I see a green colour! And its right in the water. I am positive its the reflection of the grass on the land tho.. And what ever left after the selective colouring! Can you see it? Or any one else can? Well, its above the blue model's head and mostly 5 degrees north-east the last model on the right! Goes all the way to the east till the end of that boat! When working with selective colouring you gotta be careful! Because if you do some commercial work and you cannot see those little things, you will loose a lot of time and money when it comes to the press tho! Sigh! That is all i can say for now Tom, and thank you so much once again for posting this image.. Now lets see what the others can see and tell eh! Oh! Almost forgot! You forgot to change the skin of all four models colours tho! Am picky right! TAKEEEEEEE OFFFFFFFF THE PINK TOMMMMMMMMMM!! J/K Now me going to drink two cold ~~~> Have a nice one Tom and hopefully that you ain't mad at me (^_^)

You did the coloring on the subject and that is what counts. I know this is to the point but that all I got. what the others say is lay out sorry for been to the point. Oh I do like what you did and it is the subject that is colored

Ton traitement ne me dange pas... ceci dit, j'aurais juste daturl'ensemble et contrastun peu plus afin que les reflets soient renforc. Mais le cadrage est parfait et cette photo me plait! Excuses me, so difficult for me to answer in english!;-)

Looks like Geert and Joe (wow) have covered things pretty well here Tom. As a exercise image, you did a fine job with this. The only ares I see that perhaps make it work better for me is if there were more room at the top and bottome of the image, isolating the rowers a tad more. Also, I agree that the contrast could you some enhancing. Bringing your image into photoshop, I also see some color in the entire rest of the image. If you wanted to do that, fine, but if not, I would have loosely selected the top and bottom areas that I did not want colored, feathered the selection and destaturated them even more. Just a thought!

very nice postwork.

From an untalented POV, I think the selective colour makes the boat and crew more important to the shot. BJ

I have yet to even try something like this.... I think its perfect