Photoshop Tutorial?

[Agent007]

Anyone know where I can find a tutorial for Photoshop which teaches the art of altering a picture where the photo is mostly black and white, but one person/thing is in color?

I would consider myself an intermediate Photoshop user, so please send me whatever links you have.

Example:

 

[TexasOwnzYou]

I would select Roy and export it to a new layer.

Then, select the background layer and change it to black and white. The Roy layer should remain w/ color.

 

[dustin_c1]

Real easy.

Duplicate an image. Desaturate one image. On the other, use the lasso tool (or magic wand if you can) to select the subject. Feather it a bit. Cut it. Paste it on a new layer in the b&w image. Move it around so that it lines up just right. And there you go.

But that begs the question: Why would you want such a cheesy effect?

 

[po elvis]

count me as liking the cheesy effect.

 

[Agent007]

But selecting roy is the hard part - whats the best way to do that?

 

[Longhorn Al]

I always do it by just lasso'ing the object and pasting it elsewhere so I can clean up the edges. Then I can paste it wherever I need to. The wand almost never works for me, and my hand isn't steady enough to get it perfect on the first try with the lasso.

 

[Agent007]

Dug through the Photoship manuals and found out about the FILTER-->EXTRACT option which is the best way to select things.

Here is my first attempt -

 

[DeadHeadHorn]

For future reference, a great site for Photoshop Tutorials is tutorialized.com

They have much more than just Photoshop tutorials as well, and you can learn a lot of sweet tricks.

 

[AhhhCraig]

Put me down for liking "cheesy effect". I think it looks pretty cool.

 

[YChang]

Don't meant to take over your thread Agent...but I'm a photshop junkie msyelf...so here's another cheesy effect on the picture you already created.

 

[linux]

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[Longhorn Al]

Damn Chang, nice pic...but it gives me a headache.

 

[YChang]

Heh...yeah...umm...I wanted to represent the headache that Vince gave to defenses...cause he's umm..like running so fast. Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

[Agent007]

What were the steps to adding the blur effect? What did you do to just blur the outside?

 

[YChang]

step 1. Choose a Marquee Tool of your preference (for this picture, it made sense to pick the Elliptical marquee tool) and draw it around what you don't want to look blurry.

Step 2. Press CTRL Alt D to bring up the Feather command and enter a value of 20 pixels and click OK.

Step 3. Press CTRL Shif I to inverse the selection

Step4. Go Under Filter and choose Radial Blur

For the VY pictue I think I used a value of 25 for amount. Choose Zoom for Blur Method then click ok. If you have to you can undo and play with the amount to get the right amount of "motion" you want to capture. I initially chose 75 for the amount and it made it where you couldn't even tell the linemen were there.

 

[Agent007]

I played around a bit, since i have the PSD, and I thought that this looked the best out of all of them.

 

[YChang]

very good...btw regarding your answer of what's the best selection tool...I use a mix of magic wand (have to adjust the tolerance as you click along) and the quick mask tool.