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Here is another cool photoshop video from Chris. He is going to show us, some easy tips and tricks on How To Keep An Object In Color While Everything Else Black. Its actually a technique mostly used by photographer to omit objects from photos.

Hello, hello my friends. This is Chris from coolphotoshopvideos.com. In this video, I’m actually going to show you cool trick that a lot of photography studios use. Have you ever wondered how they can take a picture that’s in full color, single out one object in that color and keep it in color, while making everything else in the picture black and white or grayscale?

What I’ll do is I actually show you one way that you can do it and the tools that I’ll be using today are the Polygon Lasso tool, the Zoom tool and the Hand tool. So let’s get into it.

What I want to do is, I want to take this Orange, keep it in Orange and everything else be black and white. So I’ll just click one time on Zoom tool, click again, click again and I think we have a close enough and then I click on my Lasso tool to go ahead and start making a selection. Now you can see that the Orange is kind of cut off here so what I’ll do is hold my Space bar down to free up that tool so I can move the picture around. Once I let the Space bar go, the Lasso tool comes back, so hold my Space bar down, click my mouse down and drag the picture over sun ok? And I just gadded it up, just for training purposes.

What I’ll do is I’ll just click on the edge and I’ll just click on points around the circle and as you can see, it’s fitting right to the shape. Now that I’m at the top, I want to hold down Space bar, just a little bit and let it go, just to move picture down side. And if you want to get more exact, you can always a… zoom in a lot closer but just for the sake of a tutorial, just showing the basic on how to do it. Ok and using the Polygon Lasso tool, it’ll give you a lot of freedom to get exactly around any shape.

Now once you see that little circle by the Polygon Lasso tool that means it’s fully selected. Now that we have our picture fully selected, what I’m going to do is I’m going to go Layer, New Layer via copy. Now the shortcut for that on a PC in Control J and the shortcut on the Mac is Command J. so what I’ll do is I’ll click there and now if you look over here in the Layers palette, I singled out my Orange.

Now, to black out everything else let me zoom out see you can actually see how to hold fingers and I’m holding the Alternate button on the key board. This is Option button on the Mac. Now that we have the whole picture, I want to select the Background layer. So I click there and the shortcut to grey it out is Control Shift and U, to de saturate it. Well, aha… so now we actually have a picture with an Orange in it, so everything else is black and white or grayed out and now you have your Orange.

So, if you want to find out more videos like that or step by step tutorials that are break down everything you need to know about being confident user in Photoshop, make your way on over to coolphotoshopvideos.com. Thanks and I hope you learnt a lot. Take care. Bye bye!

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