Selective Colour in Black and White Images Tutorial

This seems like an easy thing to do but I’ve noticed that people are still asking about it So here’s how you can achieve this effect with this easy to follow tutorial. All the edits that you are doing are 100% none destructive, which means that you can go back at any time and tweak the different layers to your liking.

Difficulty: Basic – Intermediate

Completion time: 1/2 to 1 hour

Tools: Adobe PhotoshopCS1 +

Resources

The image you want to convert to B&W with a splash of colour

or blue lips stock by *GlamourousAcid-Stock

Note: For Mac users, the correspondent keys for CTRL and ALT are CMD and OPTION.

Step 1 Convert to Black & White

Open the image that your using in photoshop and apply a channel mixer adjustment layer.

The settings that I used were the default Black and White with red filter (RGB) which is red – 100%

Comments

[lemonie]

Why don't the images show the changes on GlamourousAcid-Stock? I'm not seeing the steps that change it.

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[AllyKatDesign]

Thank you for pointing that out. I changed the photo in the first step to the correct one. The later changes in the image are quite subtle :)

[lemonie]

That's better, ta.

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[AllyKatDesign]

Your welcome :)

[laxap]

You've made a Ms. Data!