Julie Langford

thankyou for this

love information being shared
brilliant

I will give it a try …

Thank You!!!!!! This was done with two layers and the eraser tool. This sounds easier, and it makes a smaller file if you don’t finish and save it for later. If you flatten the layers it doesn’t work because there are no longer layers.

Thank You Julie. Very helpful :)

Thanks, I’ll give it a go.

This is the way I do it too. I tried the layering method but this way is much faster!

ummmm this method is for photoshop or other?

thanks my dear lady …

Just tried yr method. its like pulling a rabbit out of a hat… thank you Magician

I use a program called Color Select Studio….thats all it does is take your image, put it in blk/wht then you use your mouse on the area you want the color on….

I presume we are talking about Photoshop?

thanks for that

Thanks for this Julie. Looks easy.

thanks julie post it up later, works brilliantly

Absolutely brilliant Julie…it works a treat….and it’s posted…lol”!

This is interesting Julie it’s totally different to the way I do it. Using this method, if you bring colour back to an area that you didn’t want colour can you remove it again?

I must be doing something terribly wrong as I can’t get it to work.

I made a new document, copied a photo into it, turned into a grayscale, then back to RGB, and hit the History Brush. Started to paint and all I got was a solid white over the area I wanted to re-colour.

Any suggestions, please? I would love te be able to do this.

I used the eraser tool on Symphony and Parasol ...and Red Fan.

Sorry…Desaturated , and adjusted contrast …added blur to Red Fan …and then used the eraser to ‘erase’ away edited work…revealing original colour

Thanks, Julie, I’ll do that. I pasted into a transparent background, though.

I did it the way you said, and it worked fine. Thanks again., Julie.

Thanks Julie, I am stumbling along and that’s great advice

Thankyou for sharing Julie…. I will have a play tomorrow with your hints and tips. I just received and loaded CS3 today. YIPPEEE!

ooh thanx !! i’m just learning and this has helped me lots :)

how do i change the colour of that bit i’m selecting?

please and thank you

I think I may have to update to get this history brush. Elements 2 doesn’t appear to have it. I’ll try layering instead. Thanks for sharing your information in such a user friendly way!

Well… that sure beats the hard way.. Thank You soooo much for sharing..

Julie this is a great tip and I know I’ll be using it. I’m a bit of a fan of the history brush and often use it when applying selective sharpening. What I do is sharpen the the whole image but concentrate on only getting the feature right (this will introduce noise in areas like the sky). Then click the left box on the layers palete where I sharpened. undo the sharpening by click back to the action before the sharpening on the history palete, then using a soft history brush (varying the opacity) paint back just the areas I want to sharpen thus avoiding adding noise the the flat color areas.

Love your work, it’s beautiful

Thank you for the tips,Your woeks are so beautiful.

very helpful ,, thank you

Thanks i will give it ago and see what happens

Wow it is so easy that way. i only have a laptop to play on so most things are dificult with no mouse. But here is the image.
Thanks for your help

Thank you Julie, I don’t use hardly any PP, but I will try this, my brain loves nice and simple.

great info, thank you Lulie

Wow julie – I am at work now, but can’t wait to get home and try this out…
Thank you. Keith

I’ve been wanting to know how to do this for ages !!!! Unreal!! Thanks heaps Julie!!!..I’m off to try it!!! *-)

This is informative but may only apply to Photoshop. In Serif I open my image duplicate a copy from the background image, I can either select greyscale or I can to to adjust and channel mixer and click monochrome, after I make the adjustments I want for appearance, I use the erase tool at varying opacity and tool size to reveal the color I want when happy I merge the layers boom I am done

Rats!!! I am leaving tomorrow on tour and no time to try straight away this great advice!!!
Will tackle as soon as I get Back!!!! You are my life saver, I been trying “selective coloring” for so long and never achieved anything!!

Bless you Julie!

Thank you so much, I’m really looking forward to this effect…

I use the same method as Rebecca Bryson when I work in CorelPhotopaint.
Before readin^g a tutorial some time ago, I had found my own way to do it by just trying out the following: I desaturated color by color, just leaving the one I wanted , for example the red. I even may saturate it a bit more.

This is a better method, when you get complicate structures like a fishernet or small leaves with background in B/W.

Here is an example:

Very interesting technique. Thanks for giving me something new to play with.

Mo

thanks!!

My background is black…my object is white…how do I color the white object yellow?

I’ve seen beautiful selective colouring works and always wondered how to do it! I shall have to give it a try. Thanks for the great tips!

oh thanks I am going to try that .but im afraid plain english seems to take a while to sink in …lets see how I go hah! .......thanks again for taking time to write it,

Thank you so much, I am terrible at photoshop and tried this and actually managed to do it!! thank you once again xxxx

Just tried the method and works great. Thanks for the info on how to do it. Also thanks to the points give by bubblehex08. Cheers to all and happy painting :-))

Ooh this sounds very interesting, thank you for taking the time to write it Julie! Did you know that this tute and your “Red Monday” are currently featured in the daily feed?

Thank you JULIE for this, and all your other tutorials ,they are simple and very instructional ,thank you again !!

Interesting and sounds like fun – can’t wait to try it! Thank you for the wonderful tips! xoxo!

Thanks, Julie, that’s really helpful!

Thank you do much, something fun to try