Color and Black and White - The Pleasantville Effect

[Maggle]

I'm new here but here is my go at it...

[raek622]

This is my first post here, and my first attempts at any kind of editing other than color enhancement. I actually like them. My only problem was that I couldn't find the background layer, so I had to select the area that was to stay colorized and then cut it, change the picture to black and white, and then paste the colored area back into the photo. It worked pretty well, though.

[InteractiveBuddy]

heres what i got:

as soon as i figured out what the tut was for this pic came into my mind.

[trueblue]

I am trying what u said in your tutorial....but I can not figure out how to copy the selected area I used with the wand tool. so I can put it into a new layer. How do I do that?

also....its not copying the entire area that I want only part of it.

[InteractiveBuddy]

I am trying what u said in your tutorial....but I can not figure out how to copy the selected area I used with the wand tool. so I can put it into a new layer. How do I do that?

also....its not copying the entire area that I want only part of it.

To copy and paste into a new layer just go to the new layer and go into edit then paste. and to get the whole era you want u just have to keep changing the tolerance level on the magic wand or hold Ctrl and keep clicking on it 'till it gets everything u want selected

Edit: or you can use the lasso tool and trace what you want to keep colored. thats what I did with my eye of the tiger picture

[HamHead]

This was some simple and easy i loved it!

this is what i came up with

[GirlRacer]

Brand new to photo editing.....and wanted to give this a try.

I really like this effect. Thanks for the tutorial!!!!!

[jstottman]

This is a great tutorial. I'm new to PDN, but here is my attempt at the pleasantville effect. I can't figure out how to make the grass that is against my dogs stomach black and white. I tried changing the tolerance with the magic wand but was unsuccessful. Any suggestions?

[Ryberg360]

Here is my contribution:

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[Samantha]

Here's mine =], nice tut

[neatfreak 47]

very nice! i really love<3 it!!!!

[Nickardson]

Nice tutorial! Here's my go: (I used a free image from StockPhoto)

Original:

After:

[Xand]

Great tut, love the effect. Heres mine

Not very good, had some trouble with the wand

[Jasperr]

Here's my try

[beebee]

Nickardson - good choice of picture there, I love those bright colours.

TheTh0mas - thank you for this tutorial, this is exactly what I signed up to the forums for

My effort:

[halftime]

oh boy, just found the forum and got to work with this cool effect

[tonyadoran]

that's my go at it :-). I ADORE this effect!!

My question is; how do you make the background blur a little to make the colored part pop out even more? I tried the gaussian blur another picture and obviously, the whole thing blurred and it looks a little odd with the colored part.

Any advice? And with this picture, notice some of the leaves weren't totally selected....is there an easier way to select ALL of the part you want colored? B/c WOW that's A LOT of copy and pasting to do...it took about an hour for this.

I am however, very pleased with the outcome.

Also, I tried using the conditional hue/saturation and I just don't understand the plug-in at all.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

This plugin might give you a little help - it automates the Pleasantville effect: Extract Color

[Lollowilla]

also used glow

glory glory man utd!!

[Ego Eram Reputo]

@Lollowilla - Personally I think the glow is unnecessary. It makes the guy look like a paste-in from another image.

[Athena.mm]

I prefer my way of doing this.

Duplicate the colored layer, make the top layer black and white, and erase what you want colored on the top layer.

[miguel m]

Anyone have tips for selecting a lot of similar shades without getting the background too? I use ctrl + magic wand with low selection to get lots of little pieces that all add up together. This is the only way that seems to work well for me, but it takes forever and is a pain in the butt! How long is it taking for all of you to do these pictures?

Here is my attempt...don't remember where I found the picture. I also blurred and oil sketched the background. And I can't figure out how to make this any smaller for the forum.

[david.atwell]

It takes a while. Search "cutting out images" in the newbie playground for an easier way.

[Schmitty]

Here is my try at the Pleasantville effect.

[One]

^heres mine, i didn't follow any of the steps, but i still like the outcome