All those knowledgable with Photoshop.

[maz]

Um dummy maz here

how do I make the pic black and white

its doing my head in

thanks guys

ETA - shiat i just didi it and cant remember what I did lol

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Ummm I don't have photoshop anymore i am using photoimpact so i cant help because i cant say unless i am looking at it! Sorry Maz!

[maz]

thansk anyway hon

for those who do know....is it possible to put the 2 copies eg colour one side, then the other b & w next to each other

[{sarah}]

Yep, easy peasy Maz

Go to the menu & click on Image, the first option is Mode and you can change to greyscale there which is a very simple way of going to black & white. If you want to tweak it a bit, in that same menu click on Adjustments and then Auto Contrast which will adjust your contrast nicely.

Be back in a bit to help with the other part, J wants me!

[{sarah}]

Oh Maz, I just had a thought, there is a place where you can download an "action" so you can have two photos on the same image really easily. Will PM you details.

[Oorki Galoorki]

how do i clean up faces???
i use the bandaid tool but that doesnt seem to do much...

[Inertia]

I did this one with the path tool (the one that looks like a calligraphic pen nib), which once you have the hang of is so utterly wonderful, but you can do it with the polygonal lasso (click the little black triangle on the corner of the lasso tool). You can use it to click at points around the area you want to keep colour in. You can do more than one area by holding shift for any extra areas. Then CTRL+I to change the selection around to the area you want black and white, then go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation. Reduce the saturation to -100. That should do it.

On the clean up - the band aid tool should work - but it is important to select an area close to the artifact you want to remove. Sometimes it helps to make the source area a little darker than the target area - but never ever lighter. That does look horrible.

Hold down ALT and click on the good patch of skin you want to use to replace the artifact, then let go alt and click on the problem area.. Should fix it right up.

[danniellabella]

I get my coloured layer how I want it, then create a new layer and convert that to b&w and play with the contrast, then add a layer mask to the b&w layer and make sure that the mask is selected, then use a black paintbrush to "paint" (errase) the areas which will reveal the coloured layer