Spot Coloring Lesson 101
Step One:
Open the photo where you want to lead the viewer's eye with the use of color. Start by pressing Ctrl-J (Command-J on macs). This will duplicate the background.
Step Two:
Next, to remove the color from this layer, press Ctrl-Shirt U (Command Shift U on mac). This is a shortcut to desaturate. Once the layer is in black and white, click on the Add Layer Mask icon a the bottom of the layers panel.
Step Three: Get teh Brush Tool (B) and choose a medium, soft edged brush, making sure your Foreground color is set to black and begin painting over the object you want to have in color. As you do this, the color is revealed on your subject or object.
Step Four:
The rest is easy. You just continue paiting over the area until your desired effect is complete. As you get near the edges, shrink your brush size down. You can enlarge and shrink your brush size by using the Bracket key [ ]. Did you know this trick? If you make a mistake, just press X to switch your foreground color to white and paint over your mistake. As you paint, it will return to it's original photo. Swithc it back to black to continue spot coloring.
That's it! Congratulations on your first spot color treatment!
2 comments:
Loved this post...I have never really tried selective coloring, but must one of these days. You certainly make it sound easy enough to do! Thanks for the lesson...hope it works with Elements, too! Happy New Year...looks like you had a great winter break in Floriday!
I am just now getting to my Blog comments. Did the selective coloring work in elements? I hope so.
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