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Trista here to show you a little trick to make your photos pop! It’s known as selective coloring or recoloring and can be farely simple to achieve. The challenge is to create a page using a photo that you have recolored.
Find an image that has a prominate color that you would like to emphasize. In this case I want the red hat to pop.
Open image in photo editing software (I am using Photoshop 7).
Duplicate the Layer by right clicking on the layer in the layers palette then selecting Duplicate Layer or from the top menu click Image then select Duplicate Layer. You can also hold down the Ctrl and J keys at the same time to duplicate the selected layer.
Make sure the top layer is selected in the layers palette then desaturate. To desaturate click on Image from the top menu, then Adjustments, and select Desaturate. Holding down the Shift, Ctrl, and U keys at the same time is a shortcut.
For now hide the desaturated layer by clicking on the eye in the layers palette.
Grab the magic wand from the tools palette.
Make sure the colored layer of the image is selected in the Layers palette.
This step will vary slightly based on each image. Click on the object you want to emphasize. You may have to hold down the shift key and click several times to select all of the object. Once there are marching ants surrounding a good deal of the object (it doesn’t have to be perfect, tweaking is next on the to do list) click on the desaturated layer in the Layers palette then click delete.
You will notice that most of the color of the object you have selected shows through. I still want to see the color in the signage on the hat, so I grab the eraser tool from the tools palette. You will want to zoom in (hold down ctrl and + key) real close so you can see the details of the object. It may be a little grainy if you are in real close, but seeing the details is the main goal.
Make sure the desaturated layer is selected in the Layers palette. Adjust the eraser so that it will fit within your object.
Continue to erase until you are satisfied with the result.
Click on Layers from the top menu and then select Merge Visible to merge your photo into one layer.
You could stop here, but the image is kind of drab since it was desaturated, so I think more tweaking is in order. From the top menu click on Image, then Adjustments, then Brightness/Contrast or click on the “add adjustment layer” icon at the bottom of the Layers pallete.
My final image.
Here is the page I created using the edited photo. I used the Wizarding Magic Collab from the ScrapMatters Design Team.
The creative team put this tutorial to the test and created these great pages.
Michelle did a great job recoloring the bright lights from the light sabres in this photo! She used He’s A Superstar from Band Geek Designs.
Fiona brought to life this fun beach photo by recoloring the swim trunks. She used the brand new Peace, Love, and Flips Flops Bundle – WM[squared] and Crossbone Cuts
Head on over to the challenge forum to play along and to read the full challenge details.
