I recently got photoimpact 10 and am struggling a bit with it. Currently I am trying to figure out how to do a b&W with colored areas. I know how to turn it to B&W and I can add color to certain areas but what I am actually trying to do is keep color not add it. So for example I have a close up picture of my son's face and I want to convert the picture to B&W but I want his eyes to remain blue. I don't want to have to color them in blue- I just want to keep that element from the original photo. I know in photoshop you can layer the picture, convert to bw, erase, then merge but I can't figure out for the life of me how to do this with photimpact. Can someone give me guidance or point me to a tutorial. I would really appreciate. And I am a beginner so I need step-by step instructions if there is a tutorial out there that offers that.
Thanks,
Sheri
Beginner- trying to do b&W with some color remaining
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heinz-oz
You can use the mask tool and just extract the eyes from your image, convert these to object and turn the base image to b&w, voila, you have a b&w image with colorful eyes. Very easy.
It may be a different approach and naming convention, but objects in PI are like layers in PS.
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It may be a different approach and naming convention, but objects in PI are like layers in PS.
For in depth tutorials and a free beginners workshop head here http://www.pircnet.com/
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keenart
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heinz-oz
That makes us even, I hate the magig wand, never get the result I want. What ever works for you, go for it though.keenart wrote:I hate using Masks. Therefore, a method I often use is to select the eyes with the Magic Wand Tool, Invert my selection and then apply Photo/Enhance/Monochrome.
Unless there is a considerable difference between the object I want and the surrounding area, magig wand will always select more than what I want.
Come to think of it, I would rather use the lasso tool than the magic wand, both s**k IMHO.
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keenart
Try this tutorial called ColorSpots at http://www.wwell.net/tutorials/pi8/colo ... index.html - it will show you how to leave spots of color on your photo and let the rest be monochrome.
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joeshan2003
hand tinting
hello,
I tried to follow the tutorial you supplied: at http://www.wwell.net/tutorials/pi8/colo ... index.html and it seemed EASY enough BUT...
when I follow the instructions it is changing the eyes to grey and leaving the face in color... it is inverting the wrong items.
what am I doing wrong? How do I get the eyes to stay in color and change the rest of the photograph to b&w.
-Shannon
I tried to follow the tutorial you supplied: at http://www.wwell.net/tutorials/pi8/colo ... index.html and it seemed EASY enough BUT...
when I follow the instructions it is changing the eyes to grey and leaving the face in color... it is inverting the wrong items.
what am I doing wrong? How do I get the eyes to stay in color and change the rest of the photograph to b&w.
-Shannon