Spot colour

[slinky]

Evening all,

whilst perusing the collection of marvellous photo's littered around "P&V" I've noticed that there are a fair few shots that utilise "spot colour".... ie. b&w with certain elements picked out in colour...

What's the best way to go about creating such an image? I presume PS is in effect here, but how would I do it? is it a case of a very very careful selection and removing colour?

TIA,

slinky

[CVP]

Slinky

Yes, that's one of the ways of doing it. If I'm trying this my efforts go something like,

1. Save new copy to work on so original is not changed (made this error before)
2. Make very careful selction of the areas you wish to keep in colour.
3. Do the command "Selection - inverse" to slect the rest of the image
4. Then you need to make this big area B&W. There are a few ways of doing this, but and easy one is to do the command "Image - adjust colour - hue and saturation" and then move the saturation slide to zero. Otherwise you can do "Image -adjust colour - remove colour" to get the same effect.
5. The do selctino - inverse again to get your original selection. The reason I do this is that the original colour might look a bit too bold now, so I have a play with the command "Image - adjust colour - hue and saturation" and adjust the saturation slider to get the level of colour I want.

HTH

Chris

[Mrs Fish]

Thats what I wanted to say, but as I was typing it out it sounded too complicated.

You can also go to image, desaturate, to make B&W.

[anonymous-user]

I think two other ways are to either, mono (in whatever way you prefer) the entire image, then use the history brush to restore the colour where you want it. Or, create a layer mask and draw over the area you want to keep colour and use the mask to control the desaturation.