Whats the technical term for this effect?

[Jahee]

Here

I'm just wondering what this effect is called and was hoping for a quick answer here. Where they desaturate all colours except for a certain object.

Thanks

 

[tdawg]

Selective color, I believe. Google that and you should come up with a handful of tutorials on this technique.

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: tdawg
Selective color, I believe. Google that and you should come up with a handful of tutorials on this technique.

Ah ok, i've been using the replace colour tool in photoshop and getting the same results..

Thanks for that

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Jahee

Originally posted by: tdawg
Selective color, I believe. Google that and you should come up with a handful of tutorials on this technique.

Ah ok, i've been using the replace colour tool in photoshop and getting the same results..

Thanks for that

As with 95% of the stuff done in PS, there's more than one way to skin a cat.

 

[alfa147x]

I use the history brush option for those kinda pictures

Desaturate the entire picture then history brush the color part you want

 

[troytime]

i don't do it because its kinda cliched and overused

but if i did, i'd copy the pic to a new layer and do the conversion to b&w, then i'd mask out the portion where you want the color to show through

 

[996GT2]

lol that's my wallpaper

But yeah, either history brush, replace color, or convert to B&W and then use a layer mask.

My personal favorite method for doing this is to duplicate the layer you are working on, convert the duplicate to B&W by converting to Lab color first and then disabling the a/b channels, and then using a layer mask to mask out what you want to keep in color.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: 996GT2
lol that's my wallpaper

But yeah, either history brush, replace color, or convert to B&W and then use a layer mask.

My personal favorite method for doing this is to duplicate the layer you are working on, convert the duplicate to B&W by converting to Lab color first and then disabling the a/b channels, and then using a layer mask to mask out what you want to keep in color.

That's long been one of my favorite methods of greyscale conversion for photos; usually gives a very pleasing result with little extra twiddling.

 

[ucvb6]

Looks great. I recently learned this technique by reading a GIMP tutorial.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com...5275782_b001c36904.jpg