To swap them, press the letter X on your keyboard. Your Foreground color should now be black. We can see the current Foreground and Background colors in the color swatches near the bottom of the Tools panel. The Foreground color is the swatch in the upper left.
It should be showing black:. To bring back the color in an object, start by painting over as much of its inner area as possible, avoiding the edges for now. Depending on the size of the object, it may help to use a larger brush for this part. You can change the size of your brush directly from the keyboard.
Pressing the right bracket key ] repeatedly will make the brush larger, while pressing the left bracket key [ will make it smaller. To adjust the hardness of the brush edge from your keyboard, press and hold your Shift key while pressing the right bracket key ] repeatedly to make the edge harder or the left bracket key [ to make it softer.
In my case, I want to bring back the color in the woman's dress, so I'll use a larger brush to paint over as much of it as I can, again avoiding the edges for now. I'll start with the lower part of the dress since it's the easiest:. Then, I'll switch to a slightly smaller brush by pressing my left bracket key a few times and paint over as much as I can of the upper part of the dress, still avoiding the edges:. Notice, if we look at the layer mask thumbnail in the Layers panel, that the areas we're painting over appear black.
That's how layer masks work. White represents areas where the effect of the adjustment layer is visible in the image below it. Black represents areas where the effect is hidden. By painting over our object with black, we hide the black and white effect and reveal its original, full color version:. To paint around the edges of the object, it often helps to zoom in closer. Here's some handy keyboard navigation tricks to make things easier.
Click repeatedly to zoom in closer. To pan around the image while you're zoomed in, press and hold the spacebar on its own to temporarily access the Hand Tool , then click and drag the image around with your mouse. You'll most likely want to use a smaller brush for the edges since they require more precision, so I'll press the left bracket key a few times to make my brush nice and small. Lowering the Fuzziness by moving the slider to the left only selects hues close to the ones chosen.
If you want to include more colors like the one you clicked, raise the Fuzziness number by moving the slider to the right. The Range slider tells Photoshop how close you want the selected colors to be to the chosen area.
The selection preview box lets you see the selected area. In Step 2, you selected the pixels that you do not want to change. So, invert the selection. The pixels you want to change are now selected.
The marching ants should appear around the edges of your picture. Your image does not change, but a mask appears next to the duplicate layer. Most of the mask is white. The area of color that you initially selected is black. Use an adjustment layer to convert your image to black and white. Click on the layer mask created in Step 4. Click only on the mask and not on the entire layer. You will get a message that asks if you want to replace the layer mask. Click Yes.
Once you convert your image to black and white, you may see areas of color where you do not want. Then use a white paintbrush to erase color from your image. If you want more color, switch the brush to black hotkey, X. You can use the sliders to lighten or darken various shades. There is no right or wrong setting. Move each color slider until you like the look of your image. This mutes the background colors, but your image is no longer fully monochromatic.
It can be a bit confusing then to find that Photoshop has a Selective Color tool that does something a bit different. This tool allows you to alter the colors in your image. Portrait photographers can use a Selective Color adjustment to get rid of color casts on skin tones or to remove redness in the skin.
But you have a lot of artistic flexibility in altering the colors in your image. Et voila, a field full of yellow poppies. Finally, I should mention the Relative and Absolute radio buttons. These change the way that your adjustments are calculated, either relative to the amount of a color present or on an absolute range of values.
You can see that the whitish areas of the sky now have a cyan hue. As the white areas included some cyan to start with, this new color has been calculated relative to the initial cyan values.
This screen shot shows the setting on Absolute. The whitish areas have now had full cyan added and this would have happened even if they had been pure white. In the Neturals channel, I did the same thing that I did in the Whites channel. Since the image is made up of mostly midtones neutrals this had a greater affect on my image, so I made a more subtle adjustment to the sliders than I did in the previous Whites channel:.
Here is the before and after of the original image and the image after ALL of the steps described above:. We hope that this was a helpful introduction to the Selective Color panel in Photoshop! When it comes to editing color, everyone has their own style and idea of how they think their images should look, so be sure to use this panel in a way that suits your style. Leave us a comment below - we would love to hear from you!
She also designs actions and textures for Photoshop. When she is not shooting or writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband, and their two cats, Elphie and Fat Cat. Log in Cart 0 Checkout. Now, lets go over how you can utilize the Selective Color tools in your editing workflow: 1.
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