Photoshop CS3

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Posted by davenjess

Have you had any luck with Elements?

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i actually figured out how to do the black and white pics with splashes of color in them but i did it on CS3 bc i found such an easy tutorial for it.

basically all i do is go to image then adjustments, click on desaturate which makes the pic black and white, then i click on the history brush which saves all the colors from the pics and then just go over the brush the areas i want to color

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

Have you had any luck with Elements?

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i actually figured out how to do the black and white pics with splashes of color in them but i did it on CS3 bc i found such an easy tutorial for it.

basically all i do is go to image then adjustments, click on desaturate which makes the pic black and white, then i click on the history brush which saves all the colors from the pics and then just go over the brush the areas i want to color

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Great!!! I'm glad you figured it out - whichever program you like!!!

Have you played with noise levels yet???

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

Have you had any luck with Elements?

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i actually figured out how to do the black and white pics with splashes of color in them but i did it on CS3 bc i found such an easy tutorial for it.

basically all i do is go to image then adjustments, click on desaturate which makes the pic black and white, then i click on the history brush which saves all the colors from the pics and then just go over the brush the areas i want to color

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Great!!! I'm glad you figured it out - whichever program you like!!!

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I played around with elements too though, ive been using all 3 lol.

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

Have you had any luck with Elements?

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i actually figured out how to do the black and white pics with splashes of color in them but i did it on CS3 bc i found such an easy tutorial for it.

basically all i do is go to image then adjustments, click on desaturate which makes the pic black and white, then i click on the history brush which saves all the colors from the pics and then just go over the brush the areas i want to color

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Great!!! I'm glad you figured it out - whichever program you like!!!

Have you played with noise levels yet???

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yes i did this white noise effect, to make it look like that ghostly vision thing lol if you know what im talking about

i thought this was a helpful site enjoy


http://www.planetphotoshop.com/category/tutorials/page3

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Posted by Sue and Danny

i thought this was a helpful site enjoy


http://www.planetphotoshop.com/category/tutorials/page3

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yeah i think i saw that site yesterday, thank you

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

Have you had any luck with Elements?

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i actually figured out how to do the black and white pics with splashes of color in them but i did it on CS3 bc i found such an easy tutorial for it.

basically all i do is go to image then adjustments, click on desaturate which makes the pic black and white, then i click on the history brush which saves all the colors from the pics and then just go over the brush the areas i want to color

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Great!!! I'm glad you figured it out - whichever program you like!!!

Have you played with noise levels yet???

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yes i did this white noise effect, to make it look like that ghostly vision thing lol if you know what im talking about

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What i meant by noise was removing the digital pixels in the pictures - smoothing everything out...

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

Have you had any luck with Elements?

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i actually figured out how to do the black and white pics with splashes of color in them but i did it on CS3 bc i found such an easy tutorial for it.

basically all i do is go to image then adjustments, click on desaturate which makes the pic black and white, then i click on the history brush which saves all the colors from the pics and then just go over the brush the areas i want to color

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Great!!! I'm glad you figured it out - whichever program you like!!!

Have you played with noise levels yet???

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yes i did this white noise effect, to make it look like that ghostly vision thing lol if you know what im talking about

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What i meant by noise was removing the digital pixels in the pictures - smoothing everything out...

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oh no i didnt do that lol, i did have to do the add noise feature so thats what i thought you meant lol

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

Have you had any luck with Elements?

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i actually figured out how to do the black and white pics with splashes of color in them but i did it on CS3 bc i found such an easy tutorial for it.

basically all i do is go to image then adjustments, click on desaturate which makes the pic black and white, then i click on the history brush which saves all the colors from the pics and then just go over the brush the areas i want to color

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Great!!! I'm glad you figured it out - whichever program you like!!!

Have you played with noise levels yet???

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yes i did this white noise effect, to make it look like that ghostly vision thing lol if you know what im talking about

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What i meant by noise was removing the digital pixels in the pictures - smoothing everything out...

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IF you want to get rid of the graininess or noise you can go to Filter, Noise, Despeckle or reduce noise and adjust it as you see needed.

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

Hey jess maybe you can help me out with one thing i want to do...I want to make a picture black and white but add color just to a few things

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That is in the layers as well.... There are a few ways to do it.... Let me try and think of the easiest...

Probably:

Create a duplicate layer.

In that secondary layer - do the Magic Extractor & select the points you want to STAY & leave them in color.

In that first layer - make it all black and white.

Use the merge tool & both layers will show - the color one should appear on top of the secondary one. I did this once before...let me see if i can find it...

This I just did now - VERY quick & sloppy....but to give you an idea... (this is my brother & his wife).

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Ok i didnt have time to do this last night so if anyone is on that can help, i would appreciate it...ok i did the steps but i see more than one merge tool, which one is it, bc the merge i tried takes one layer away so theres only 1 left but you said theres supposed to be 2

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Im not sure what you want to do, but you can go to Layer, Flatten Image (all the way at the bottom) and that will merge all the layers. If you have a hidden layer, it will ask you about it , if you just want all layers merged into one it will do it automatically. You just cant go back and move anything after you flatten. I save one copy with layers as a tiff and one copy flattened as a jpeg.

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Posted by LeslieMike

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

Hey jess maybe you can help me out with one thing i want to do...I want to make a picture black and white but add color just to a few things

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That is in the layers as well.... There are a few ways to do it.... Let me try and think of the easiest...

Probably:

Create a duplicate layer.

In that secondary layer - do the Magic Extractor & select the points you want to STAY & leave them in color.

In that first layer - make it all black and white.

Use the merge tool & both layers will show - the color one should appear on top of the secondary one. I did this once before...let me see if i can find it...

This I just did now - VERY quick & sloppy....but to give you an idea... (this is my brother & his wife).

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Ok i didnt have time to do this last night so if anyone is on that can help, i would appreciate it...ok i did the steps but i see more than one merge tool, which one is it, bc the merge i tried takes one layer away so theres only 1 left but you said theres supposed to be 2

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Im not sure what you want to do, but you can go to Layer, Flatten Image (all the way at the bottom) and that will merge all the layers. If you have a hidden layer, it will ask you about it , if you just want all layers merged into one it will do it automatically. You just cant go back and move anything after you flatten. I save one copy with layers as a tiff and one copy flattened as a jpeg.

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Oh, okay, the merge selection can be found where your layer box is. You will see three lines with a little arrow in the top right of the layer box, click it and there will be a drop box with merge down and merge visible selections. (Merge Visible retains any transparency in the image.)

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Posted by LeslieMike

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Posted by LeslieMike

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by davenjess

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Posted by Espo22

Hey jess maybe you can help me out with one thing i want to do...I want to make a picture black and white but add color just to a few things

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That is in the layers as well.... There are a few ways to do it.... Let me try and think of the easiest...

Probably:

Create a duplicate layer.

In that secondary layer - do the Magic Extractor & select the points you want to STAY & leave them in color.

In that first layer - make it all black and white.

Use the merge tool & both layers will show - the color one should appear on top of the secondary one. I did this once before...let me see if i can find it...

This I just did now - VERY quick & sloppy....but to give you an idea... (this is my brother & his wife).

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Ok i didnt have time to do this last night so if anyone is on that can help, i would appreciate it...ok i did the steps but i see more than one merge tool, which one is it, bc the merge i tried takes one layer away so theres only 1 left but you said theres supposed to be 2

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Im not sure what you want to do, but you can go to Layer, Flatten Image (all the way at the bottom) and that will merge all the layers. If you have a hidden layer, it will ask you about it , if you just want all layers merged into one it will do it automatically. You just cant go back and move anything after you flatten. I save one copy with layers as a tiff and one copy flattened as a jpeg.

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Oh, okay, the merge selection can be found where your layer box is. You will see three lines with a little arrow in the top right of the layer box, click it and there will be a drop box with merge down and merge visible selections. (Merge Visible retains any transparency in the image.)

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thank you, yeah i figured it out the other night...I just desaturate the image then go to history brush and go over the areas i want in color.

Not a big poster but saw this thread and was bored today and decided to download the photoshop cs3 and I just wanted to say Thank You!!!

I absolutely HATE the pictures from my engagement night (and the whole first week really) because my skin was sooo broken out AND I was getting pink eye. Anyway I would never show anyone the pictures haha

But now I removed all the redness and stuff - they're not great but at least I won't mind if people see them lol.

So yeah, kinda pointless but just wanted to say thanks for sharing!

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Posted by Bongos815

Not a big poster but saw this thread and was bored today and decided to download the photoshop cs3 and I just wanted to say Thank You!!!

I absolutely HATE the pictures from my engagement night (and the whole first week really) because my skin was sooo broken out AND I was getting pink eye. Anyway I would never show anyone the pictures haha

But now I removed all the redness and stuff - they're not great but at least I won't mind if people see them lol.

So yeah, kinda pointless but just wanted to say thanks for sharing!

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AWWW YAY well im glad it helped and yeah the band aid feature to take out pimples is GREAT!!!!! im sure you looked great though

Aww thanks but seriously they were horrible I couldn't stand the stupid blemishes I would lie about having pics lol

Its an amazing feature - makes such a difference!

Thanks so much!