black and white with the use of selective colors

[Ben]

Below are two tests I conducted with my old Canon P&S about 9 years ago. I desaturated the colors and then hand painted sections in Photoshop, and added a lot of noise to make them look like old crusty photos.

Nice look, you should make a plug-in it looks very realistic like a very old photo

 

[Mariya]

Hi guys,
I am new here and also a great fan of B&W with selective colors.
Just for you to know, there is special group on Facebook (www.facebook.com/colorsplashstudioapp), devoted to selective coloring, some inspiring stuff might be found there.

 

[smirkypants]

Polo chicas in Argentina

 

[knkedlaya]

Leaf

This is was the only leaf that was not completely dried among the others. So tried to depict it.

 

[Quasimodo]

I made one for my eldest son (he is 3 1/2 years old) and has an avid fascination with firetrucks and ambulances.

 

[Nassen0f]

Nice one i got yesterday

 

[CanonCameraFan]

Nice pics. Good to see other people's work. Thanks for posting. Colour popping can be used too much, but then so can HDR and other effects. It can look really nice.

This is one of mine. It's taken using picture styles (skd picture style, can't remeber if it was Ruby or Perl, they both desaturate green). I was going to crop but I quite like it as it is as it provides a sense of scale.

 

[otsink]

Nice shots. I've been interested in trying this approach. Can you outline the basic process for doing this? Thks

 

[otsink]

My Bad; Late to the party. I guess I started on page 3 instead of page 1 :-X

 

[Quasimodo]

Nice pics. Good to see other people's work. Thanks for posting. Colour popping can be used too much, but then so can HDR and other effects. It can look really nice.

This is one of mine. It's taken using picture styles (skd picture style, can't remeber if it was Ruby or Perl, they both desaturate green). I was going to crop but I quite like it as it is as it provides a sense of scale.

Very nice!
I think it is fun to explore this approach. However, sa I am very new to photoshop, I have not yet learned to use mask tool yet, so when I try to make the black white part rougher, it affects the part with the colors too....

 

[otsink]

I'm on CS3, I'll do some experimenting. Thanks much.

 

[CanonCameraFan]

My method for the ladybird picture was even simpler. The picture was taken in RAW using the neutral picture style. In the conversion I changed the picture style - I have three that preserve red in the photo (Ruby, Perl and Only Red). These all give different effects. Ruby and Perl desaturate green but keep the other colours, Only Red keeps only the red. I played around with the additional picture styles on the Canon website before searching for more. I found the downloadable SKD picture styles on Cinescopophilia and a few elsewhere now have loads. I've also fiddled about making one or two of my own using the picture style editor.

I didn't have to do anything except swap the picture style, apply sharpening and tweak the contrast and shadows before converting to JPEG. Job done. Admittedly this method is a bit of a cheat and I already had the picture style file but it was fairly instant.

 

[bycostello]

hate to say, spot colour a bit 1980s...

 

[MazV-L]

hate to say, spot colour a bit 1980s...

Oh well, I think it's more to do with the story you're trying to convey through the picture and your own style (or what a client wants) than what trends attempt to dictate.

Not all photos lend themselves to this style anyway.

 

[RLPhoto]

Here was a good Use for this technique on a commercial client.

 

[Quasimodo]

Here was a good Use for this technique on a commercial client.

This is nice, and quite tough too if you use the same method of brushing the colors forward as I do (given the straws and all

80's or not... Photography in itself is also pretty old

 

[mjardeen]

This is not a technique I use very often, but it seemed to be the right thing to do with this image.


Signs, signs, everywhere signs by mjardeen, on Flickr

 

[!Xabbu]

I don't do this a lot, but I liked the effect on this one...

 

[unruled]

"Over-exposed" :

Came across this roll of film while hiking last March.

only shot ive ever seen where I like the effect. probably the implied irony.

 

[kasperj]

Here I used the effect on the blood trickling out from the skin to make a more dramatic picture. I used Nic Silver Efex pro, which I can strongly recommend. It is by far my favorite add-on to Lightroom.