red items in a black and white shot

[wheffles Profile]

hi does anyone know how to get red items in a black and white shot, a flower for example

[admin]

Hi,

I assume your original shot is in colour and you want to make part of it black and white.

+ Choose Select Area
+ Pick background from the list.
+ You are going to try and select everything but the flower: Draw the brush around the outside of the flower
+ When you've gone all the way round with no holes, two fill buckets should appear that you can use to fill in the rest of the background
+ Press Confirm Selection And Browse Effects
+ Choose Black and White from the colour menu
+ Pick a black and white effect

That will make your photo mainly black and white. If you want to increase the vibrance of the flower afterwards, just pick Image Treatment, then use the vibrance or saturation sliders.
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[wheffles Profile]

thanks for that. do you know how the effects editor works? im no dummy but i simply cannot get it to work it just says that i have made no alterrations. i drag things down to that grid input and output effects but nothing seems to work and i cant find a tutorial that doesnt assume you know either

[admin]

Hi wheffles,

We've got a bunch of videos showing you how to use some of the features of the effects editor here.

Tony