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Black, White and Colour Photograph

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Added: Mar 22, 2005 Rating:

Level: Beginner Software: Photoshop

Creating a black white and colour photograph is a great way to add drama to a photograph. In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Hue/Saturation tool to make the image black and white with one colour.


	1. Open the image for editing. For this tutorial, select an image with a dominant colour.

	2. Duplicate the "Background" layer (Ctrl+J).

	3. Using the Hue/Saturation tool (Ctrl+U), set the "Saturation" to "-100". Click OK.

	4. Duplicate the "Background" layer (Ctrl+J).

	5. Use the Apply Image tool (Image> Apply Image) to apply the following properties: Source: Filename Layer: Merged Channel: RGB Invert: Unchecked Blending: Normal Opacity: 100% Preserve Transparency: Unchecked Mask: Checked Layer: Layer 1 Channel: Gray Invert: Checked Click OK.

	6. Delete "Layer 1" and set the "Background copy" layer's blending mode to "Overlay".

	7. Use the Hue/Saturation tool (Ctrl+U) to adjust the "Hue". Adjust the Hue until only one colour is present. For this image the colour is yellow.

	8. To increase the effect, duplicate the "Background copy" layer. Rollover the image on the left of this step to see the original image before this technique was applied.