All those knowledgable with Photoshop.

[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.

[suse]

Do you mean the clone stamp doudou?

Faces can be a little fiddly, because the shading is variable across the whole face. I would suggest using a small diameter tool on small areas (like freckles, pimples etc), a larger diameter tool to smooth out texture. Use minimum edge hardness so that it fully covers the area you want, but gives a soft edge. And like Inertia said, always select the source as close to the destination as possible, if the shading doesn't match then undo that edit and pick another spot. For minor texture adjustments or to even out skin texture reduce the opacity of the tool and use a larger diameter.

On using a path selection tool or lasso - it is preferable to using the eraser as it gives the option to save the path, allowing it to be used on other layers, or edited, or imported into other programs like Illustrator. It also allows you to adjust the edge feathering, or expand or contract the edge, which can be really useful if you are doing things like changing an entire background. Combined with layer masks they are the most non-destructive forms of editing, useful if you intend to work on highly complex manipulated images or need to make changes. I also agree with Inertia about using the path tool, it allows for a much finer control than the lasso tools, which makes a huge difference when you have an image with low contrast between subject and background, or with a highly detailed edge (the lasso tool usually applies points rather than curves and doesn't work well on all objects).

The easiest and quickest tools will work most of the time, but knowing the more complex ones is useful.

[Oorki Galoorki]

For minor texture adjustments or to even out skin texture reduce the opacity of the tool and use a larger diameter.

i think this is what iam wanting to do...

thank you

http://www.facebook.com/editphoto.ph...0&id=723611206
this was my very first attempt at putting colour with black and white..

i will try the skin one now..

[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