Gaffer74's system

[Gaffer74]

Right, well I haven't posted here recently as I'm in the middle of changing things. New hi-fi rack = Ikea corras, on the hunt for new speaker stands (60cm pre-welded preferrably, and also in the process of moving house.
So here's mine:

...and I plan on changing my cart to an ortofon mc15 sup mkII MC (on order), which will then feed into this:

which then feeds into this:

which goes to the amp

Some night shots ------->

 

[KUB3]

You forgot Mathmos in your kit list

 

[Alco]

Beautiful pics, Geffer74!

Btw,...i was wondering... how do you turn some parts of your b/w pictures into colour ?
(hope you understand what I mean)

I do have Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and I was told once that this option is also possible in photoshop, but I could never figure out how

 

[KUB3]

You save a path around the object to remain colour, make selection from path, inverse selection, press ctrl u, reduce saturation to minimum. There are other better ways for high resolution print, but this will do for web.

 

[felix]

Alco - you do it the other way round. Lasso the bits of a colour photo you want to keep, select inverse, desaturate.

 

[KUB3]

A lasso won't give you enough detail, unless you don't mind doing a very rough job.

I think you misunderstood what I said btw, when I say 'around' an object, I don't mean outside it. Confusing

 

[Alco]

Alco - you do it the other way round. Lasso the bits of a colour photo you want to keep, select inverse, desaturate.

Thanx, Felix & KUB3.

I found out some new trics with your help.
Still not the thing I mentioned earlier though.
Whatta ya mean by 'desaturate', Felix ?

regards,
Alco (who's going to bed now...., yawn,Zzzzz)

 

[KUB3]

If you press ctrl+u, you get up a pallette. Simply slide "saturation" bar fully to the left - thus reducing it. This is also called desaturating. (A colour with no saturation is grey).

 

[Gaffer74]

Hi guys.

The above is correct.
Also, this is how I do it.

Launch Photoshop CS and open the file.
Go into Image->Adjustments->hue/saturation

From the dropdowns, select the colours you don't want and move all their saturation sliders to zero (extreme left).
You should be left with the colour you want highlighted only, and now you can fiddle with it's settings/colour to make it slightly brighter/darker etc etc how you want.

If there are any other areas of the photo still coloured, select them (or "inverse-deselect" as mentioned above) and press 'shift' 'control' 'u' to fully desaturate all the other areas needed.