Angi Baker

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In this tutorial we will be learning how to take a full colored image and turning only part of it into color, this is what we call (SC) Selective Coloring…
Here are my steps of the way that I do this and the way I teach it…

First we will go into photoshop and open it up
Next we will go to the top left corner of the page and click on File and then open so that we can choose our image
Scroll through your images and open this up in photoshop
Now once that the image is up, we will want to go to the bottom right corner in our photoshop in the layers palette and you should see your image in a small icon that will say background beside it.
You will then hold down on your left mouse and drag this all the way down to the bottom into the Create a new Layer icon, let go of your left held down mouse and you should see another image of the same image come up and it will say background copy.
Now we will make sure that the background copy is chosen so just click on it, when it is chosen it should be highlighted in blue.
Now for the next step we will go to the top left of the page where you will find image and we will click on this, and then other choices will come up and then we will want to click on adjustments and then Desaturate, wala your whole image should have just turned to black and white if done correctly and if you have followed these steps it will be.
Now it will be your choice of what you want in color, so go ahead and look at the image and make your choice, we don’t want to add it all back in color, we wnat only parts of it, that is why we call it (SC) Selective Color/ing.
Now to add some color back…
We will need to go to our tools at the left of our screen and we will be using the History Brush Tool, so go ahead and left click on this.
Be sure to use History Brush Tool.
You may also want to make your brush size a little smaller and to do this we will go to the top of the left corner of the screen and we will see brush, there will be an arrow pointing downward and lets just left click on that choose your master diameter size that you want to use, you can move this down or up in size. Once chosen you can go work on your image and brush on the part that you want color added back to. If you mess up and brush to much or get out of the lines simply click your back button at top left of screen and it will simply take away what you have messed up and you may start again.
Once we have what all we want colored back in we will want to save our work, and we will do this by simply going to File/ Save As and then type in what youwant to save your image as…
YOU”RE DONE! AND I HOPE MY TUTORIAL HAS HELPED YOU ALL…