Okay, quick, easy tutorial about how to get color on a black and white graphic. I will be using Photoshop CS, but I think you can find many of the same things in version 7.

1. Take any graphic you want; the simpler, the better.

2. Go to the Layers tab, right click, and choose Duplicate Layer

(You'll get a message asking what you want to name the layer and where you want it. Just press OK to go with the default.)

3. Go to the Image Section in the top area, select Adjustments, then Desaturate.


4. Now, here's what my graphic looks like so far:


5. I'm going to make the butterfly stand out, so I'm going to select a small Eraser brush, this one being Oval 10 px...take your time, and even zoom in a little bit to see that you're only revealing the color where you want to.

Voila! Finished Product:

Nice idea, much simpler than what I do. I'd use the pen tool and outline the entire area or region that I want to remain in color and then press ctrl+shift+I. This will invert the selection and then desaturate. But yours is much easier than rearranging the anchor points. Nice one .

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I'm trying to find out how to color a photo that is already black and white.  Not take a color photo, desaturate it and then erase portions of the photo.  I want to "tint" some of the areas but so far..No luck on finding the answer from anyone.  I'm using CS4 and you'd think this would be an easy task.  [img]/txtmngr/images/smileys/smiley6.Gif[/img]

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