A little help with my Ladybird?

[wildlifewendy Profile]

Hi
I am a new user of Smart Photo Editor, and have really been enjoying it....so easy to follow and amazing effects.
what i wanted to know is.....i have taken a photo of a ladybird sitting centre point of a dead thistle, can i make the background black/white but keep her red or vice versa?
Do you understand what i mean....have seen this done with a photo before...looks good.

[Penningtons7 Profile Website]

Load in your picture.

Goto effects gallery choose the desired effect in your case look under color - Black and white. this will show preview for whole image.

Confirm the one that suits you.

Then click on mask left column and select erase from selection and mask off the area you do not want to be B/W


You can do thius for any effect in the gallerey!

[admin]

Good advice, Penningtons7!

This is covered in our How Tos page, along with several other useful little tips.

Tony

[wildlifewendy Profile]

Thankyou very much, will have a try with that....also can i post any photos for comments on here? as i have only been doing my
Photography for two year now, i tend to be only learning from magazines, websites and mistakes!
Would be lovely to know if i was going in the correct direction ....or not

[admin]

Hi Wendy,

Please do post any results you have, we'd love to see them. If you're proud of what you've done and you want general feedback, then you could post a picture in the "show us your results" forum. If you want help/feedback on this in particular, then post it in this thread.

Tony

[wildlifewendy Profile]

Hi Tony
How do i post my photos? goodness i feel such a novice!!

[admin]

To upload a photo, reply to this message, then look undeneath the place where you type in your reply and you'll see two tabs: "Options" and "Upload attachment", choose the second tab and you should be able to upload a picture, then submit your message. I guess I'll see if it doesn't work!

Tony

[wildlifewendy Profile]

Thanks for your help, i hope this comes across ok....
Comments would be really helpful.

[wildlifewendy Profile]

Right.... i can see this has to be re-sized first? will get there in the end!

[admin]

You don't have to resize it, we can still scroll around it. Very nice by the way. If you want to resize it, there are resizing options when you save the file in SPE.

Tony