Some of you ask me how I do this.
Since I decided to make some photoshop tutorials to share with you what I know, I’ll make this top of the list.
For your convenient, I’ve provided exactly the same photo for you to follow.
As with most thing in Photoshop, there are thousand ways to do exactly the same thing. I believe this is the simplest and quickest way to apply this partial colour technique.
Step 1
Open up the photo (or any photo you wish to edit)
Step 2
Move down to the bottom of the Layers Palette and click the half black/half white circle. This will create an Adjustment Layer (on a new layer). Choose Hue/Saturation.
Step 3
Drag the Saturation slider to the far left or simply key in -100. This will “drain” all colour. Click OK.
Step 4
Press D to restore default background and foreground colour, which is black and white. Press X to switch between background and foreground colour, until you see black is on top as shown in the following photo.
Now press B to select the Brush tool, you could choose any brush size you want, for example, you might want to use a small brush size for fine tuning.
Step 5
Now this is the most important part, let’s bring back the colour! And be patient, it could take a while to do this.
Go back to the photo and start painting. Let’s begin with the sweet girl’s face? Now you see the colour has been brought back. Good job, I know you can do it.
Zoom in to brush fine area, her hair for instance.
Photoshop TIPS:
CTRL + + to zoom in, CTRL + - to zoom out.
Right bracket key, ], to up the brush size.
Left bracket key, [, to bring the brush size down.
Another Tips
Accidentally brush the area you didn’t mean to?
No worries, press X again to swap White to the front (Black to the back, of course) and paint the area back out. Don’t forget to press X again to swap it back. So, Black on top to bring out the colour, White on top to send away the colour.
When you finished, you should see your layer mask something like this.
Correct me if I make a mistake.
Enjoy!
10 Comments
Wow! you are really great! niceric.
I have learn a lot of this tutorial, thank you very much.
I remember I am the one who ask this question, months ago.
Until now, I still didn’t bother to try it.
Haha.
A real lazy bum here.
Eric,
Wah, you giving out free photoshop tutorial???
I want, I want…
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Hmm, I think I will also did that at my new blog!
By the way, I think I will just get eeleen.com for my domain, as I should be proud of my own name right?
By the way, as for my birthday gift? I got a new handphone yesterday!!!
Hmm, actually, the domain is also one of my birthday gift as well…
Btw, where is my birthday present???
Hehe…
~TheAngel~
@ My LIFE Story
yeah
thanks for sharing
teach us more … hehe
You welcome Jackie, together we learn
come on, yenjai, it just take you 10 minutes
but if can be a real pain in the arse to use PS if the computer spec is not up to pace…just like mine…when would I get my iMac? (sob sob)
Angel, not free tutorial, you got to pay…haha
your present….hmmmm (scratching head)….
but pay as come in to drop some comments, need some motivation for this though…
alysha, I have a lot to learn from you too…you have good photoshop skill
Hey Eric,
Yeah, finally get the domain & webhost as well today!
But I still need sometime to upload the whole new of me!!!
Haha, hmm, so where’s my present from you?
(Not scrath head…)
~TheAngel~
@ My LIFE Story
Nice eric.
mmmm.. saw this in forum too .. ^^ will try this later .. ^^
thx for sharing .. ^^
Cool teaching!
But I didn’t install photoshop, coz it requires quite a lot of harddisk space. :p
I didn’t know Hue/Saturation is for this purpose.
Thanks for sharin….. ^_^
No problems guys
kaka: Hue/Saturation can add many more effects if you play around with it
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