Thanks for the view and the comment, James. Yes, all monochrome is a good way to go here and one I considered, but in the end my artistic license prevailed. I know the person pictured, and my interpretation of that person led me to the selective color idea.
Hope to see some of your photos from this site sometime.
nice shot of the great wall. i was at the same section back in october 2005. still havent gotten around to uploading any photos from that weekend trip tho. personally, i would like to see it all in black and white.
Well, the standard way to do this is in Photoshop with layers, one color and one B&W, then masking out the color area in one of them and putting them back in register, the color layer on top. But that's tedious, so I cheated. Google has this album program, Picasa, that has a cool little photo editor with a kind of "color spotlight" effect. I used that, then just nibbled away at the slopover with Photoshop's cloning tool. The jumbled brick background behind Diane makes this easy to do.
And you of all people should not be getting into the travel envy thing, right?
Hi Tom, This photo is so cool. I am tres jealous that you had the chance to see the great wall. How did you do this? The whole black and white, selected colour thing? Melody
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