Create a selective “color hold” effect
Nov 13, 2018
4 minutes
REQUIRES
Photoshop CS6 or later, including Photoshop CC
YOU WILL LEARN
How to preserve specific colors using adjustment layers and masks
IT WILL TA KE
15 minutes
THE EYE IS naturally drawn to areas of color in an image that’s otherwise monochrome. It’s a technique often used in advertising, and also creatively to throw the focus on characters or objects, such as in the movie Schindler’s List, in the scene in which a small girl’s red raincoat stands out in a black-and-white setting. The effect works particularly well when it’s applied to iconic subjects associated with a specific color, such as a red London bus.
Typically, however, as in our image
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