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Any American City - Selective Color Experiment - New York City Photography

Really liked how this photo came out. There might be a few things I would change, but working with a 2mb pixel camera on my PDA and enhancements in photoshop make it kinda hard to do. This photo was a recent entry in a Photo Content in Selective Color on http://www.photographycorner.com. A great forum with an amazing bunch of talented people. Unfortunately I didn't win, but I think the best part was working with this photo in the first place. This actually happens to be one of the my first selective color experiments I did in photoshop. I used to do a bunch of selective color on B/W prints I would print out in the darkroom, and color with magic color pencils. Good fun.

Overall doing selective color in Photoshop is not too difficult. Here's how: Open the image that you want to do selective color on, and in the "Image" menu, select "Desaturate". Which will turn the image to black and white, then using the same "Image" menu select "Adjust" and finally "Brightness/Contrast". This will enable you to add more contrast to the image so the color stands out better in the when you color it. Next to start to select areas you would like to color. In the left hand tool bar, select the "history" tool, and adjust accordingly and start to "color in" any area on the image you want to convert back to color. For example, the flags in the above photo were done this way, but very carefully as the detail was important, and many of the flags were often behind trees or particular structures.

Here was the original.