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Question Posted Saturday December 13 2008, 7:29 pm

How do i make a picture black and white but leave my eyes in color? I need a free photoshop to download from online. And for it to be not hard so i understand how to do it.

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pinkpolkadots answered Friday December 19 2008, 2:03 pm:
I have another way that I actually think is easier that the previous answer.

Open it up in photoshop then do Ctrl+A that'll select your entire picture. Then Ctrl+C that will copy it.

Then click outside of the picture and do Ctrl+N that will open a new picture. Somehow I have it set on mine that when I do Ctrl+N it automatically makes the new picture size the same amount of pixels as the area you copied, I don't know if that's standard on every photoshop so if it's not you'll need to adjust the pixel size to fit the picture you're trying to make.

Once you have the new window opened do Ctrl+V that will paste the picture into the new window.

Once you can see it in the new window go to the layer tab in the top toolbar and go down and click Flatten Image. It should be all the way at the bottom of the tab.

Then, go back to your copy of the original picture. Press Ctrl+U this will open the Hue/Saturation tool. See the three bars in the middle? Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. They should all start off at 0. Click where it says 0 in saturation and type -100. The negative sign is important. Then click OK. That should have just made your picture black and white without changing the color comp. of your picture. If you just went to change to grayscale your color part that you want (your eyes) wouldn't show up in color.

NOW (on the original color picture) do Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C. Then go back to the black and white picture and do Ctrl+V. Now you'll have the first layer of your picture which is the black and white version and you'll also have the top layer which is the color version. Now either simply press the E key, which will open the eraser tool, or find the eraser tool in the side toolbar. Now all you have to do is erase all the parts of your picture BESIDES your eyes. You'll notice that as you erase the color version all that shows up is the black and white. So now you just have to erase everything but your iris.

It looks longer but I was just trying to explain everything to make sure it was easy to understand. In practice trust me it'll be easier.

Hope that helps and good luck. :)

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tayloroo2 answered Sunday December 14 2008, 2:35 pm:
ok I don't know where to find a free photoshop but I can tell you how to turn all but one thing and white on photoshop.... so you take your picture to full edit and on the side there is a bar that has a bunch of icons of stuff to do to you picture well look on the that bar till you see on of three icons the icon will either be called burn tool, sponge tool, or dodge tool you want to right click that icon and choose sponge tool then once you have choosen sponge tool click you picture every where but the area you want in color.... but what is even easier works just as well is a website called picnik (you can google i don't remember the exact website name) and what you do on picnik is make your account you can get the free version the premium version only has like 2 more features and they don't look all that interesting to me... anyway so once you get your account you upload your picture then click the tab create. Next there are two different ways you can spot color or spot black and white I'll tell you both 1. click black and white and when you click black and white that will open up and give you some options click the little paint brush thing then just click in your picture where you want color and tadah. or 2. scroll the bar with all the different picture options down until you see focal black and white click that click the area in you picture you want in color.... I prefer the first way because you can be more precise that way


~hope I helped

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