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

Posted:
Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:35 pm
by 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.

Posted:
Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:58 pm
by beej
Great tip Matt.
I dug up a boring shot to play with. Works a treat.
Cheers
- beej

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:25 am
by Matt. K
beej
Quick work!

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:01 am
by Killakoala

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:44 pm
by stubbsy
Matt. K
Thanks for sharing this. I'm building up quite a file of tips from you.

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:46 pm
by stubbsy
Steve
Love the shot of Thaddeus(?). I'm guessing the tripod is useless with a bend in it like that


Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:59 pm
by 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

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:24 pm
by phillipb
Yep! This tip is a keeper.
Great way of minimising distracting backgrounds.


Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:30 pm
by birddog114
phillipb wrote:Yep! This tip is a keeper.
Great way of minimising distracting backgrounds.

Oh no! I see it as CANON


Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:36 pm
by 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"


Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:44 pm
by birddog114
phillipb wrote: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!


Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:48 pm
by phillipb
OK Birdy, just for you.
Used the same method except instead of saturation I changed the Hue

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:06 pm
by birddog114
phillipb wrote: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.


Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:47 pm
by Marty
Thanks Matt,
that is a quick way to get the result.
Makes life much easier.
Cheers
Marty

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:00 pm
by tsanglabs
Thanks for the tip Matt, just tested it out and it is a very fast method and works a treat

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Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:46 pm
by MATT
THanks for the tip that saves a lot of mucking around.
MATT

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:52 pm
by christiand
I've bookmarked this tip.
Thanks a lot.
CD

Posted:
Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:55 pm
by sirhc55
Or with replace colour command


Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:00 am
by Neeper
How do you do the edges?? Do you guys zoom in?

Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:15 am
by Paul
Thanks for the tip,

Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:32 am
by phillipb
Neeper wrote: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.

Posted:
Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:39 am
by 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