Welcome to another new darkroom.com video tutorial.
This week I am going to show you a technique that is called selective colorization. This technique is where you can make a certain areas of your photo pop out at you a little bit more. So what we are going to do is we are going to open up an image. Here we have a person sitting on some rocks staring out at the sea. But we want the fore grounds on this person to stand out a little bit more than a rest of this image.
So what we are going to do is go to ‘Image,’ ‘Adjustments’ and then ‘De-saturate’. This will turn the image black and white but we do not want everything black and white. We want this person in these rocks to stand out by giving them color. So we are going over here to our ‘history brush’. This tool is overlooked quite a bit, there is a lot of useful functions to this tool.
So, we are going to adjust the diameter here, increase a little bit and we are going to paint the color back into the rocks here. As you can see the image is all ready just with this little bit is already starting to pop out a little bit more. Now, we are going to lower our brush size here so we can get some of the finer details. Just like put some other blue back in other pants here. Even though the jacket is black you still want to put color back into it because there is still color in black, you still get color it red. So put some color there, paint color back into the head here, you have to lower the brush size a little bit more so we can get the finer detail and there you go.
Now the whole foreground in this person definitely pops out at you compared to the rest of the image.
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