Colour Separation - Photoshop

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Hello all,

I want to edit a few photographs and I've seen a few on here that I'd like to have a go at. They are in the style where one colour stands out from a black and white atmospheric background.

How is this possible in a program like Photoshop CS3?

Is it done using the RAW file or do you need a flat JPG and then work from that adding layers as you go?

Any good photoshop tutorials would be appreciated.

Cheers,
 
It's known as Colour popping, Google comes up with a few tutorials on the first page if you use that as the search term.
 
Get your image (whether its RAW or JPG) import into photoshop, go to the image menu, adjust, desaturate (which removes the colour) then using the history brush go over the area that you want the colour to be to reinstate it.

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if thats the type of thing you're meaning of course
 
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Derek W said:
Get your image (whether its RAW or JPG) import into photoshop, go to the image menu, adjust, desaturate (which removes the colour) then using the history brush go over the area that you want the colour to be to reinstate it.
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just to illustrate there are many ways of doing this, i would not do it like that. I'd create a duplicate layer, desat (or bw convert) the top layer and use the eraser brush to bring the colour from the background layer back through.
 
GeX said:
just to illustrate there are many ways of doing this, i would not do it like that. I'd create a duplicate layer, desat (or bw convert) the top layer and use the eraser brush to bring the colour from the background layer back through.
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I do it with a duplicate layer as well;

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asim18 said:
Personally, I'm not a fan of desaturate. The proper way is to do a custom B&W conversion in camera raw.
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Hmm how would you go about doing that? I've always been using desaturate, then contrast changes to get an effect I like.
 
Darkmage88 said:
Hmm how would you go about doing that? I've always been using desaturate, then contrast changes to get an effect I like.
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Open the RAW in ACR, make your changes and open the image.

Then open another copy of the raw in ACR, click on HSL/Grayscale, check "convert to grayscale", and then use the sliders to adjust the shades, now open the image.

Then just drag the gray layer into the colour image and you're sorted.
 
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