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In many cases, you want to focus an object in your photo; you could achieve this using many techniques with the help of Photoshop. Here is a technique that achieves this by merging colored with black and whiteareas in an artisticway.
The result:
Focus Objects in Photoshop (Colored with Black And White)
- Open the photo in Photoshop.
- Press (Ctrl+J) to duplicate the Background layer and rename it to "BW".
- With the "BW" layer selected, press (Shift+Ctrl+U) or click Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Now you should see two layers: Black and white layer "BW" and a colored layer "Background".
- Press (Q) to "Edit in Quick Mask Mode" then press (B) to select the Brush tool.
- Make sure that the "BW" layer is selected, set
black as the foreground color and paint over the object
that you want to focus (the girl in this photo).
- After you have finished, press (Q) again to "Edit in Standard Mode".
- Press (Shift+Ctrl+I) to "Inverse Selection", now you should see the object that you want to focus is selected.
- Press Delete and if you want to colorize other
simple parts, press (E) to select the Eraser tool and
erase those parts.
- Make sure the "BW" layer is selected, click Filter
> Artistic > Colored Pencil and press Ok.
- Select the Background layer, click "Create new fill or adjustment layer" > Levels, move the white arrow to the left a little to give the focused colored objects more brightness and press OK.
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