Anyone have any ideas…

[Ranger677]

…on how to do selective colorization using Graphic Converter for the Mac? The only tutorial that I have found is for PS, which I don’t have, or by downloading and eventually buying a new program just for this one application, which I just want to play around with.

Anyone?

[linguine]

Gimp is free and can do a selective colorization by going into hue-saturation under color tools and reducing the saturation of the colors you dont want.(there may be a better way to do this but thats just the way i had figured out how to do it quickly)

[Curious]

Gimp for mac http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ is there. the Gimp is what all the cool (and cheap) kids are playing with now. there are tons of tutorials for it. Google will find them.

[Ranger677]

Well, by selective colorization, this is the type of thing that I was thinking of:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skylerbug/2103923798/

The thing that I want to try it out on is a pair of eyes of a friends little girl. So keeping just one color just will not do.

[linguine]

So youre trying to just keep the color of one object, not just one color right? The only way that I know of to do that would be to select the object that you want and then reduce the saturation on everything else.

[Ranger677]

Any ideas on how to do that with GC?

[corsec67]

One way: copy the image into 2 layers, make the top layer B+W, and then add a layer mask with the object you want to keep being transparent in the top layer mask, letting the color version show through.

That is exactly what I did here:
flickr page

[millera9]

Any ideas on how to do that with GC?

Sorry Ranger677 but I don’t think any of us are familiar with that particular program. Good luck!

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