Black & White with Color...camera mode???

[jamaicamenutts]

Hi all,

I am new to the forum, but I have spoken with 2 people now who have pictures that are black and white with color splashed in. When I asked them how they did that or what software they used....they said it was a setting their friends used ON their camera.

Does anyone know what setting this could be? I have 3 cameras I can work with on this and I have looked through the manuals and see nothing on doing this directly on the camera. I know you can do it in photo editing software, but I would love to be able to do it directly on the camera if possible.

These are the cameras I have:

Olympus E-510 (Digital SLR)
Olympus Stylus 730
Olympus Stylus 770 SW (waterproof camera)

My husband has the Olympus E-500 (digital SLR)

So...does anyone have any suggestions or know the setting that does this??? My cameras arent really old, but I guess it could be a new setting??? Any help would be great! I leave for vacation on Sunday and would love to have it figured out by then!:heart:

 

[usayit]

FYI: Cross posting is not a good thing.

http://thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126649

but you are new and I thing the forum will cut you a break.... welcome to TPF.

 

[elemental]

In my experience, the only cameras that I have seen this on are certain Canon point-and-shoots. Honestly, it's kind of a gimmicky thing- don't be upset that your cameras don't have it.

It can be done fairly easily with Photoshop or GIMP.