Creative Use of Color - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 122

Selective Colorizing
If you've ever seen the 1998 movie Pleasantville, then selective colorizing will probably seem familiar.
In the movie, a teenage boy and his twin sister are transported into a fictional 1950s black-and-white
sitcom. As the movie progresses, color begins to emerge here and there, mixed with a world made up of
shades of gray.You can create some interesting images using this technique. I like to use it sparingly, by
accenting a black-and-white image with small splashes of color. It's a fun technique to experiment with.
Give it a try, using your own images.

Tutorial 20: Mixing Color with Black and White
This is the image we converted into black and white earlier. It is also a good subject for selective
colorizing (Figure 5-13 ).

Figure 5-13. A good image for mixing color and black and white

To convert this image, follow these steps:

Open the image ( Ch5-selective color ) found in the Practice Images folder.
This is a .PSD (Photoshop) file with two layers.

1.

■ i chose to use a .PSD format, in case there are some readers who might be using adobe photoshop
instead of GiMp for these tutorials. GiMp is perfectly capable of handling these files.

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