Selective Colouring or Black+White with Colour

eromallagadnama said:
Wow!!! I love this one especially out of the ones that you've posted :thumbup:
Thank you! I was at the San Diego Zoo and this woman was painting these really neat things with words made out of animals........so awesome. I had to take a picture of her doing it.
 
Now I really want to give this theme some new life:

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This was my first attempt:

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And this one is one of the few pictures that I've ever taken where I saw the finished product in my head before I even saw the pic in the viewfinder:

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Couple of mine

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It is an OK concept to play with, but it has become overused in general creative photography and as such it has become a less effective technique and more of a cliché. Being very artificial and unnatural, the question design-wise becomes: Why did you colour this element and not a different one, why the particular colour, and do the other pictorial elements fit together with the one that is colourized. Of course the ultimate question: Would the image not be more effective if it were completely and more naturally ALL in colour?

skieur
 
heres a couple shots i took a long time ago with my moms point and shoot and edited a while ago cause i was bored and curious how to do selective coloring.
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for those who keep asking how to do it, there are many ways.

i personally went to gimp.com and downloaded that, its almost like a free version of ps and thats what i use to do the selective coloring and this is a great site to use

http://www.gimp-tutorials.com/tutorial/Selective-Colorization-using-The-GIMP-168.html

for a tutorial on how to do it once you dl the program.
i dont know if there is a online way to do it without a program but this was the easiest cost effective way i found.
 

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