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Selective black and white images

Your were probably wondering how to achieve that selective black and white effect on pictures. There's a lot of ways, let learn one of them.

 
  Author: mat | Version: | 31st August 2011 |  
 
 
1.
 

Let's open a picture you want to keep one color and turn the rest black and white.

I chose to tweak the picture of my good friend and a funny traffic sign on a summer snowboard trip to Austria.

 
 
2.
 

Click Select and Color Range.

 
 
3.
 

Click the color you want to keep.

 
 
4.
 

Keep looking the preview pane and adjust the Fuzziness.

I've set mine to 76.

If you're not quite satisfied with the selection, click Add to Selection button ...

 
 
5.
 

And click the color you want to keep, but somewhere else.

Another tone of the same color, so you have the whole range covered.

 
 
6.
 

That's more like it. Click OK when you're have your selection sorted.

 
 
7.
 

This is how the selection looks like in my case.

 
 
8.
 

Now click Select and Inverse (Shift+Ctrl+I for keyboard shortcut).

 
 
9.
 

Click Image, Adjustments and Desaturate. (Shift+Ctrl+U for keyboard shortcut)

 
 
10.
 

Click Select and Deselect (Ctrl+D for keyboard shortcut).

 
 
11.
 

That's all, now you know how this kind of images are done.

 
 
 
   
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