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I'm really having some issues with these photo editing programs- help appreciated...

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skysunsand

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Feb 13, 2009
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All I want is to take one photo, one of my car, turn everything BUT the car black and white, and leave the car in color.
I've tried Magicbrush-photo. It -sucked- majorly for me.
I should note, I'm running Tiger, 10.4.11, if that matters.
I'm trying to use GIMP, but I have no clue of what an X11 program even is. Should I even be using that program for the task I want to complete?
I mean, I'm not going to buy photoshop or anything like that just to do 1 picture.
Any help is greatly appreciated...
 
You can get a free trial of photoshop, if that's all you want to do. It will probably have a tutorial of how to do exactly that.

Or, you could post the pic here, and some nice forum member would probably just do it for you. (Not me, I suck at such things.):)
 
skysunsand said:
All I want is to take one photo, one of my car, turn everything BUT the car black and white, and leave the car in color.
I've tried Magicbrush-photo. It -sucked- majorly for me.
I should note, I'm running Tiger, 10.4.11, if that matters.
I'm trying to use GIMP, but I have no clue of what an X11 program even is. Should I even be using that program for the task I want to complete?
I mean, I'm not going to buy photoshop or anything like that just to do 1 picture.
Any help is greatly appreciated...
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You can actually do this in Preview under 10.5 if you're not looking for full-on Pro-quality results ...

Use the Extract feature to outline your car:

Extract.jpg


Hid CMD-C to copy when you're done, then drop the selection so that the whole picture is active again. Go Tools -> Adjust Colour and move the Saturation slider all the way to the left to grayscale the image.

Now, CMD-V to paste your colour car back into the picture. Job done.

Cheers!

Jim
 
skysunsand said:
All I want is to take one photo, one of my car, turn everything BUT the car black and white, and leave the car in color.
I've tried Magicbrush-photo. It -sucked- majorly for me.
I should note, I'm running Tiger, 10.4.11, if that matters.
I'm trying to use GIMP, but I have no clue of what an X11 program even is. Should I even be using that program for the task I want to complete?
I mean, I'm not going to buy photoshop or anything like that just to do 1 picture.
Any help is greatly appreciated...
Click to expand...

I did this with my PC using Gimp and it was brilliant. I would post pics up but i don't know how to. Go to YouTube. Loads of tutorials on it. It's really easy and very effective.
I just downloaded Gimp onto my new Mac but don't know how to move the pics to Gimp to alter them!! If anyone knows then that would be a great help.

Alex
 
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