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Applying Selective Color in Camera Raw
There are some really nice special effects you can apply from right within Camera Raw
itself, and some of these are easier to achieve here than they are by going into the rest of
Photoshop and doing it all with layers and masks. Here is a special effect that is popular
in portrait and wedding photography: drawing attention by turning everything black and
white, but leaving one key object in full color (and while we photographers cringe at the
sight of it, clients absolutely love it).
Step One:
For this effect (where we make one part of the image stand out by leaving it in color, while
the rest of the image is black and white [I know it's cheesy, you know it's cheesy, but,
again, clients love it]), we want to set up the Adjustment Brush so it paints in black and
white. Start by getting the Adjustment Brush (K) , then in the Adjustment Brush options
panel, click on the - (minus sign) button to the left of Saturation four times to reset all the
other sliders to 0 and set the Saturation to -100. That way, whatever you paint over be-
comes black and white.
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