just a couple cool photos

[gcart2]

they almost look fake. a friend of mine took the pictures, i just edited them. these are our brother bikes.


http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k181/gcart2/2Q9X5362-1.jpg
my brother


http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k181/gcart2/2Q9X6088-1.jpg
me



http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k181/gcart2/2Q9X5379-1.jpg
me
i messed this one up

[kawabunga]

Lookin good.
Have you ever tried singling out just one color instead of an entire object?

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/kawabunga/look-left2.jpg

They both look cool. I like the top picture of yours best.

[meankfx]

how do u get pics like that? ^^^

[gcart2]

Originally posted by meankfx
how do u get pics like that? ^^^

i used photobucket. photoshop is a much better way though.


how did you do that? i like it.

i am about to do one more before nap nap lol.

[gcart2]

just a quick job. kinda crappy

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k181/gcart2/2Q9X6088-2.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k181/gcart2/2Q9X6088-3.jpg

[kawabunga]

There are actually a couple of ways to do it. I use photshop and there's an option that makes it pretty easy. You can just select the color you want and put it on it's own layer and desaturate the under layer. Or you can can make a mask layer. Or in photoshop you can use the camera raw pre-screen and desaturate all colors except one. There's no wrong way. As always, in photoshop, there's always 5 different ways to do the same thing. If you want more specific help, let me know.

[meankfx]

Can u give me a specific simple way to do it using gimp please?

[kawabunga]

Originally posted by meankfx
Can u give me a specific simple way to do it using gimp please?

Sorry dude, I've never even heard of gimp until I read your post. I have no idea how to run that program, never seen it. I stick with the Adobe programs.

[gcart2]

i just realized i missed a huge spot on the first photo in the upper right hand corner:p

[meankfx]

well what tools do use? can it be done in lightroom? I have that.

[kawabunga]

I don't use Lightroom too much, but I delved into it for a minute just for you:)
This is an easy, pretty much auto way to do it, so you won't be able to do much fine tuning to it like you would be able to in Photoshop, but you should be able to get the desired results you want.

Once you have a photo open in Lightroom, click on "develop" in the upper right hand corner.
Scroll down in the adjustments panels until you find "hsl/color/greyscale". Or, click on "window" on the top of your screen, roll over "panels", then select "hsl/color/greyscale".
Once you see that adjustment panel, you'll see four sub-layers in it, hue, saturation, luminance, all.
Click on "saturation".
Once you have those sliders up, just desaturate (move slider to the grey side) all of the color that you don't want present in the picture, and leave the one that you do.
Also, play around with the hue to change the color of the existing colors, and the luminance will adjust the brightness of each individual color.

I hope this helps you out. Like I said before, this is the more automated way to do it, and you don't have as much control with it as you would in Photoshop. Say you want to isolate the green on a four-wheeler and the background is grass, you'll have the green of the wheeler and the grass in color as well. In Photoshop you could remove that. I don't know how in Lightroom.
Anyway, give it a shot and post up what you come up with!




And gcart2, I didn't even notice that corner until you mentioned it:p

[meankfx]

thanks for the help kawabunga. This is the best i could get.
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc296/meankfx400/S6300968.jpg

[kawabunga]

Post up the original, meankfx.

[meankfx]

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc296/meankfx400/S6300968-1.jpg

[kawabunga]

So you just took desaturated the blue. Did you try desaturating everything BUT the blue, or another color?
That's what I was doing in my pic.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/kawabunga/blue.jpg

[631kfx400]

that thing is badars

[gcart2]

Originally posted by kawabunga
So you just took desaturated the blue. Did you try desaturating everything BUT the blue, or another color?
That's what I was doing in my pic.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/kawabunga/blue.jpg


that thing is sick. i wish i could have that motor to put in my bike.

[elmer91]

selective coloring is a cool effect. here is one of my favorites

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb80/elmer091/photoshop/largeasf.jpg

[kawabunga]

Very nice elmer, the only thing I would suggest is going in and cleaning up the color on the goggles and the inside of the front left fender. It's a really small nit-picky thing but it's reflected light, so they're really not that color. Like I said, little thing, but looks cool!

And thanks for the comments on my pit bike, it's in the process of being more badarser:devil:

[elmer91]

Originally posted by kawabunga
Very nice elmer, the only thing I would suggest is going in and cleaning up the color on the goggles and the inside of the front left fender. It's a really small nit-picky thing but it's reflected light, so they're really not that color. Like I said, little thing, but looks cool!


that is from when i first got photoshop, and was messing with it. looking at it now, i see a lot of bad things, but i still like the effect.