Ever seen a photo that is all black and white except one color and said, "Man, I wish I could make a photo like that..."
Well now you can!
This tutorial is geared toward a beginner user of Photoshop CS5. It will teach you the basic steps on how to desaturate all colors except for one color of your choice.
During this tutorial, if you find that a step is incomplete, inaccurate, or needs rewording, or that instructional images are inaccurate, please post a comment that will provide us with enough information to edit the tutorial. Thank you, and Good Luck!
Please note that the screenshots will only be useful to Windows users. The Photoshop Menus look different when you're running a Mac operating system.
Well now you can!
This tutorial is geared toward a beginner user of Photoshop CS5. It will teach you the basic steps on how to desaturate all colors except for one color of your choice.
During this tutorial, if you find that a step is incomplete, inaccurate, or needs rewording, or that instructional images are inaccurate, please post a comment that will provide us with enough information to edit the tutorial. Thank you, and Good Luck!
Please note that the screenshots will only be useful to Windows users. The Photoshop Menus look different when you're running a Mac operating system.
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Signing UpStep 1: Opening Photoshop CS5
- 1-A. When you installed Photoshop CS5 on your computer, it normally places the program in a folder titled Adobe Photoshop CS5. Depending on whether you have other Adobe CS5 programs, the folder may be titled “Adobe Web Premium CS5.”
- 1-B. Click your windows “start” menu, go to All Programs --> “Adobe Web Premium CS5” --> Click Adobe Photoshop CS5. This will start the program. You should see a blue rectangle with the Photoshop logo as it is loading the program.
See Image 1, and Image 2
See Image 3 to see what Photoshop looks like while loading.
- 1-B. Click your windows “start” menu, go to All Programs --> “Adobe Web Premium CS5” --> Click Adobe Photoshop CS5. This will start the program. You should see a blue rectangle with the Photoshop logo as it is loading the program.
See Image 1, and Image 2
See Image 3 to see what Photoshop looks like while loading.
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Good Job!
There is kinda a lot of reading involved with the different steps. I guess you kinda need it though. I think that making the steps simpler like "do this...do that..." would make it easier to find what one is supposed to do. Bolding or changing the colors of the different tasks would be cool. Other than that, my photo looked the way it's supposed to! THanks
That's weird that you could not open up adobe (i'm assuming you couldn't find the folder for it in the menu?) Glad you knew other ways to search for it. There should usually always be the folder unless it was deleted or had another name? We should mention that "adobe photoshop" can be typed into the search area of ms windows start menu (as another means of opening the program). Thanks!
There are many ways to do just about everything in Photoshop.
I would also try:
Right Click
Color Select (Hold the Shift Key to select multiple colors or color shades.)
Use the Quick Selection Tool to refine your selection
Click on the Refine Edge tool make the adjustments as you like and then send the selection to a new layer.
This way you haven't edited the original layer and still have the roses as a sepearate layer. Then you can duplicate the background layer and change it to black and white.
You will have the same effect but this way you could also quickly change the color of the roses to be purple with a simple color overlay or hue change.
One thing I would suggest, and it's something that I try to teach all of my interns at work, is to think in Layers. If you could show beginners how to do everything in layers that would help them a lot. Because as they advance in skill they will find that seperating everything into layers and groups can increase productivity.
Thanks!