Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Using an Adjustment Layer and the Saturation Slider
Finally, you can remove color using a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer. This method doesn't
offer you the tone adjustments you can make when using the Enhance menu's “Convert to
Black and White” option, but using an Adjustment layer lets you both add and subtract areas
of color later on. Here's what you do:
1.
Select the area you want to make black and white
.
Use any selection tool you like (see
Chapter 5
for a refresher). If it's easier to select
the area where you want to
keep
the color instead, do that, and then press
Shift+Ctrl+I/Shift-
⌘
-I to invert your selection so the area that will lose its color is se-
lected instead.
2.
Create a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer
.
Go to Layer→New Adjustment Layer→Hue/Saturation, or click the Layers panel's
New Adjustment Layer icon (the half-black, half-white circle) and choose Hue/Satur-
ation.
3.
In the Adjustments panel, move the Saturation slider all the way to the left to get
rid of the color
.
With this method, you can go back and edit the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer's layer
mask to change the amount of colored area, including letting only partial color show, as you
can see in
Figure 10-5
. But most of the time you'll get a better-looking black-and-white con-
version with the duplicate-layer technique described on
Making Color Photos Black and
White
.
