09-02-09 – Colour Popping

I’ve never done this but do these links describe what we’re trying to do for this theme?

http://www.ehow.com/how_2087543_make-photoshop-spot-color-channels.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/92001/photoshop_monochromatic_image_with.html?cat=59

Hooray for not being an attack site anymore! Now to start working on this challenge, because it WILL take me that long. 😉

O’Hai Farktographers! As a a Photoshoppers and Newbian Farktographer, I just wanted to pop in and give the quickest easiest method for color popping your pics. This works in any image editor supporting layers.

Step 1: Open your original image
Step 2: Duplicate that Layer
Step 3: Desaturate the duplicate layer.
Step 4: Erase from the duplicated layer (I use layer masking but the erase tool works just as well) revealing the color layer beneath. Using the finer brushes of the eraser/paintbrush you can reveal as much or as a little of an area as you wish.
Step 5: ?
Step 6: Profit

/For many of you, this is old information, but I wanted to post it for anyone who doesn’t waste endless hours photoshopping The Paint Huffer into other people’s photos.

Thanks for posting that, ennuipoet 🙂

clouddancer: I don’t see a problem with that as long as you took the photo, but we should probably get a consensus from people. Anyone else have an opinion on that?

I am just fine with your husband doing the shooping if you took the picture clouddancer.

I think its fairly easy but I wish I had one of those Wacom? thingies using my mouse is almost painful by the time I get done erasing the parts I want in color. the tutorial for gimp that was in the themes discussion about this was a great help and said pretty much exactly what ennuipoet said .

U-Man – I don’t think the eHow article does it (either that or I messed up the instructions) and not sure about the associated content article (I couldn’t find what I was meant to select in step 1 and the images seem to be missing).

GregScott – You could do it by selectively desaturating the parts of the image that aren’t being kept as coloured, but that might take longer than the other ways mentioned and may give you an uneven look to the desaturated areas.

Thanks for the easy-to-follow steps ennuipoet. I have a dumb question for you though. I not much of a shooper at all so bear with me. Using gimp I did steps 1-3 no problem. I can switch between the 2 layers and see both the color and b&w version. But when I erase from the desaturated duplicate layer it just leaves white spots – it doesn’t reveal the color version underneath. I’m sure I could google the answer but I figured I’d just ask the experts.

You need to set the top layer to transparent. When you open a new layer at the bottom of the new layer dialogue it asks you layer fill type and has 4 options, just make sure that transparency is the selected option.

I believe it is color to selected object/s but I could be wrong.