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Hey All! It’s Andrea here (a.k.a. chia) with your Saturday Special! With all the fun changes and challenges going on here, the Saturday Special Challenge is now going to take more of a technique approach. We’ll teach you a new trick, tip or technique to improve your scrapping skills and you will use that new found skill to scrap a layout for the challenge.

You will have the entire month to complete the challenge!! When you complete the challenge you will earn 1 point! If you use a newly released product (within the past 7 days) from the Scrap Matters store on your challenge layout, you earn an additional point!! Wahoo! 2 points!

AND my favorite layout at the end of the challenge will earn another point! WHAT??? How crazy cool is that!!??

So are you ready for this week’s Saturday Special? We are going to work on selective coloring…when you have a bit of color showing on your black and white photo. After “googling” how to do this, I found several different techniques. Some more difficult and involved then others, but today I’m going to share one that I thought was nice and s-i-m-p-l-e!

A few weeks ago, Erica gave a great tutorial on how to make your photos POP! Pick a photo and do that…or if you want to go super simple, just pick a colored photo. Here is the photo I selected and here is my final result:

Now, I use PSE6 so keep that in mind (you may have to make some adjustments)…Once your photo is open, right click on the layer in your layers palette and select “Duplicate Layer.”

Next, with your duplicated layer selected, go to “Enhance” and select “convert to black and white.”

You should now have two layers in your palette—your b&w and your color photo. You’re going to want to now zoom in close on the object that you want to be colored. Find your handy dandy eraser tool and choose a pixel size that you are comfortable working with.

With your B&W photo selected, slowly begin to erase carefully. You will see that the color will show underneath!! Remember the “undo” feature is your friend!!

Your challenge for this week is to use selective coloring in your layout. You can use this technique here or try another. I just want to see some pop of color on you B&W photo! Remember, you don’t have to use Scrap Matters products (but we sure love it when you do) and once you post in the gallery, don’t forget to link up your layout to the Saturday Special thread in the forum here so we can leave you some love and get you your points! You also have one whole month to complete the challenge and no double dippin’!! If you have questions about the new point system, check out this thread in the forum.

Here is what I’ve created and a few layouts from some of our creative team members…

by Cyndi146

by monsu

by Stefanie

by winkasheart

Can’t wait to see what you create! Happy Scrapping!