Colorizing Black and White in Elements

Mandy from Texas, USA, using 3.0 with Photoshop Elements, writes in with:

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I would like to to know how to colorize parts of a picture that are black and white.

For example, I have a picture of my nephew on his first birthday. I would like to leave the cake in its original color but make everything else black and white.

Please help.

This is why I really wanted this program. Thank you so much.

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Comments

[JJ]

hi,

I've only worked with Photoshop but I hear Elements has some of the same elements as Photoshop, so I hope you could do this...

You'll need
A. Desaturate option (or what ever Elements offers to turn an individual layer black and white)
B. Option to Layer Mask or C. eraser tool

1. Open your image in Photoshop
2. Duplicate the image (to have 2 layers now)
3. Click on the top Image and what ever way you can turn that single image into a black and white (i'll refer to it as BW) without affecting the original photo.
4. Create a Layer Mask of that now BW image
5. Pick a Brush and brush away...Black to reveal White to hide (or vice versa)

If you don't have that option of Layer Mask then...this next way you'll have to be a little bit more careful.

1. Do everything until the Layer Mask spot.(Duplicate and turn the top image BW)
2. Start Erasing on the BW layer the part you want colored (here the cake) to reveal the colored image on the bottom layer while having the rest BW.

Hope that helps.
JJ

[xido]

take the colorized picture...turn into Gracyscale mode...the turn back into RGB mode,take history brush and "paint over" the cake....

[Ihsan Kamal]

Hai guys,

I don;t know the uses of EXTRACT filter. But before i use to cut background smoothly. I think we can remove backgrounds without human hair. And what is the other uses of it ?

[patrick]

sorry, but didnt help that person at the top want to colorize a black and white image, if color doesnt exist in the first place, how can you paint back in the color of a black and white cake?