This is a better way to subtract or add colour in PS

[Matt. K]

To get that tricky red rose glowing against a black and white background effect......Open your image and go to the layers pallet (F7). Click on the ying yang looking circle at the bottom of the layers pallet and choose hue/saturation. Drag the saturation slider all the way to the left. Now choose a paintbrush and with black as your foreground colour paint on the image. To remove the colour set white as the foreground colour. Play with the opacity slider in the layers pallet when you are finished. Flatten layer when completed. Neat.

[beej]

Great tip Matt.

I dug up a boring shot to play with. Works a treat.



Cheers
- beej

[Matt. K]

beej
Quick work!

[Killakoala]

Brilliant, it is so much quicker than the way i've been doing it in the past, which was very convoluted. I now run the risk of doing this to every photo i take.

[stubbsy]

Matt. K

Thanks for sharing this. I'm building up quite a file of tips from you.

[stubbsy]

Steve

Love the shot of Thaddeus(?). I'm guessing the tripod is useless with a bend in it like that

[ajo43]

Matt

I've noticed that you've done a vew very helpful posts on PP (contrast mask etc). I wonder if some day you might consider conolidating them all into a tutorial??

I reckon we'd all benefit greatly.

Cheers

[phillipb]

Yep! This tip is a keeper.
Great way of minimising distracting backgrounds.

[birddog114]

Yep! This tip is a keeper.
Great way of minimising distracting backgrounds.

Oh no! I see it as CANON

[phillipb]

That's original colour birdy, It's the strap that came with my N80
May be Matt can add part 2 to the tutorial, "How to turn canon colours into nikon colours"

[birddog114]

That's original colour birdy, It's the strap that came with my N80
May be Matt can add part 2 to the tutorial, "How to turn canon colours into nikon colours"

Yeah! that's what I meant!

[phillipb]

OK Birdy, just for you.


Used the same method except instead of saturation I changed the Hue

[birddog114]

OK Birdy, just for you.


Used the same method except instead of saturation I changed the Hue

Now It's better and nice! my colour.

[Marty]

Thanks Matt,
that is a quick way to get the result.
Makes life much easier.
Cheers
Marty

[tsanglabs]

Thanks for the tip Matt, just tested it out and it is a very fast method and works a treat .

[MATT]

THanks for the tip that saves a lot of mucking around.

MATT

[christiand]

I've bookmarked this tip.

Thanks a lot.

CD

[sirhc55]

Or with replace colour command

[Neeper]

How do you do the edges?? Do you guys zoom in?

[Paul]

Thanks for the tip,

[phillipb]

How do you do the edges?? Do you guys zoom in?

Yep, zoom in to 100% and use a very small brush for the detail work.

[beej]

Neeper,

I'm not sure if this is the best way (i'm a noob), but for the edges i just use the magnetic lasso tool and go right around the edge, once the object is selected i then brush "in" the colour using Matt's tip.

- beej