On Friday, May 28th, the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge is Selective Color. This means your photos need to be monochrome with a spot of the original color left in. Yesterday, I posted some tips using Corel PhotoPaint Pro 2021. Tomorrow, I will post some tips and tricks in Adobe Photoshop 2021.
Color 
Selective Color 
Monochrome (black & white)
I want to thank Cee Neuner with Cee’s Photo Challenges for her generous expertise in helping provide information that I could share with my followers. She has been posting a new series of photography tips to include black and white/selective color blogs that you may find useful in your photography and post editing process. Here are the links to her four recent posts:
Part 1 – Easy Techniques to Try
Part 3 – Editing Using B&W Mixer in Camera Raw (Adobe Suite Program)
Cee mainly uses Adobe Camera Raw which is part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Camera Raw is a free plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop, however is not free, but can be purchased for $9.99 per month. You can try it for free for 7 days. Click here.
In terms of understanding the difference, Camera Raw is an image developer similar to when we used to get our 35mm film developed after shooting off a role. Photoshop is the image editor, but there are editing tools in Camera Raw that are quite useful and can be quicker than Photoshop. I find that I have more control in Photoshop, but I’m sure it is because that is what I’m used to using.
As I’ve stated in other posts, there is no right or wrong way. There are lots of ways to accomplish selective color using these digital editing programs.
Our Eyes Open 
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22 responses to “Photography Tips & Selective Color”
Thanks Lisa for the mention. And yes, there are several ways to achieve selective coloring. 😀 😀 I’m looking forward to your challenge next week. 😀
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You are welcome. Thank you for doing that and giving me more content to add to this adventure. Can’t wait to see what you have in store. I’m looking forward to it too! I don’t have my photos picked out yet. What???? 🙂
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Miss your blogs and your visit to my blogs too, hope you are fine
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these photo editing apps certainly make you wonder how much you can trust the images that we look at…
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I question everything! When I first started over 20 years ago, I was a photo purest. Now, I have to appreciate what others can do with photoshop and other programs. 🙂
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it’s kind of coll, kind of scary… 🙂
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Yep! You could find your face on a nude buff tanned muscle guy. LOL! I could make that happen you know. 🙂
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🙂
I wonder how many people photoshop their photos on dating web sites?
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LOL! I’m sure there are a lot of them that do that or put on an old photo that hasn’t been updated. Sorry I haven’t replied sooner but I got hacked on Friday afternoon and I just got back on WP today. I had a lot of pw to change and my systems cleaned. All is good now. 🙂
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yikes; sorry to hear about the hacking. hopefully not too much damage done…
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Not any damage at all. My firewall kept them out for the most part. More of a time consuming pain in the derrière. Changes pw & cc info. I did cancel my cc and so now the task of that has begun. 🙂
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glad there was no damage, but it is a huge waste of time to have deal with all the issues afterward…
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Yep! Mine own fault. I should have never answered the call. I think I’m going to invest in RoboCall for my phone. 🙂
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I rarely answer my phone if I don’t recognize the number…
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I’ve had doctors calling me and it was a local number. It is easy for them to do that nowadays. I’ll just let RoboCall take care of most of them. 🙂
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I figure if it’s important, they will leave a message…
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I think that way too but when it is the VA, I need to answer it because it is hard to get anyone back on the phone. 🙂
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Yes, I know that feeling, and I’ve answered the phone when I was certain it was an important call, and it was not. But better to play it safe that way…
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Absolutely. I won’t fall for that scam again! 🙂
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I use Photoshop Elements so I’m going to be investigating how best to do selective colour there, or possibly using a phone app – I’ve done the latter in the past with reasonable success!
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That is awesome! There is no right or wrong way and tons of programs and info out there. 🙂
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