Paint Shop Pro Tutorial
Jul 16
Gray Background
This Pain Shop Pro tutorial will show you how to use an adjustment layer to desaturate part of an image, and emphasize an object in a photograph by giving it more color.
Step 1:
Open the image you want to apply the effect to.
Step 2:
Select 'Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer' from the menu. Select the Monochrome check box, and adjust the channels until you get a nice monochrome look. I used 50% for the Red and Green channels, but this will vary depending on the image. You should try to keep 100% total between all of the channels. You can use a Hue/Saturation/Lightness adjustment layer, and just lower the saturation to 0% if you like. I use the Channel Mixer because it allows more control over the appearance of the image.
With the Channel Mixer adjustment layer selected, set your foreground color to black, and select the Paint Brush tool. The brush size used should be relative to the area you want to reveal the color from the original image. I used a brush size of 30 for this image. Simply paint over the area you want to have color.
That is all there is to it, you can adjust the opacity of the adjustment layer to show a little more color as I have. If you make any mistakes, you can simply switch the foreground color to white to paint over them.
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Link is now bad, because the server the site was hosted on was hosed. The link it forwards to is also bad and doesn’t exist.
August 19th, 2006 at 8:37 amThanks chark,
I will see if I can find a similar tutorial on the net to replace this. If I am unable to find anything related maybe I will just break down, and install PSP so I can make tutorials for it myself. Thanks for letting me know of the bad link.
August 19th, 2006 at 2:25 pmI decided to just make a tutorial myself to replace the one that no longer exists. Thanks again for the pointing out the dead link chark.
August 19th, 2006 at 6:35 pmWhat version of PSP were you using for this?
October 9th, 2006 at 6:50 amHi dizidev,
I used PSP 9 for this tutorial. I do not really know if versions prior to that work the same way since I have not tried them. If your version does not have adjustment layers you can duplicate the layer of the image, desaturate that layer, and then use the eraser tool to erase sections of the layer.
October 9th, 2006 at 10:26 pm