 Painting
Black and White Photos
- You will need the photo
Ranch House.jpg that is in your adobe samples folder on your hard
drive. (C:/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop 7.0/Samples/Ranch House.jpg)
1. Open the Ranch House.jpg image in photoshop. Click Image=> Mode=> RGB.
2. Use your Magnetic lasso tool to select the boots. Make a new channel
called boots from the selection. Click back on the RGB Channel. Click
select=> deselect.
 3.
Use your Magnetic lasso tool to select the jacket. Make a new channel called
jacket from the selection. Click back on the RGB Channel. Click select=>
deselect.
4. Use your Magnetic lasso tool to select the hat. Make a new channel
called hat from the selection. Click back on the RGB Channel. Click select=>
deselect.
5. Use your Polygonal lasso tool to select the doorframe. Make a
new channel called doorframe from the selection. Click back on the RGB
Channel. Click select=> deselect.
6. Use your Polygonal lasso tool to select the door. Make a new
channel called door from the selection. Click back on the RGB Channel. Click
select=> deselect.
7. Use your Polygonal lasso tool to select the floor, not worrying
about where the boots break the straight line. Click select=> load
selection. Set the channel to boots. Set the bullet to subtract from
selection. Click back on the RGB Channel. Click ok. Make a new channel
called floor from the selection.
8. Click select=> inverse. click select=> load selection. Subtract the
boot channel. repeat subtracting the door, doorframe, hat, and jacket from
the selection. Make a new channel called Wall from the selection. Click back
on the RGB Channel. Click select=> deselect.
 9.
Click on the layers palette and highlight the background. Add a layer called
Paint. Set the mode to Color.
10. Click select=> Load selection. Select the jacket channel. Use a brush
to Paint the jacket, set at
- Soft 35 pixel
- 35% opacity
- Blue hex #6666CC
11. Load different selections from their channel and paint it according
to your taste, keeping the opacity light and using a soft brush or gradient
on the paint layer
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