Photoshop CS3 Color Inverse Tutorials: Vector Mask

Series Summary

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing today. It is a program that gives users the power to manipulate colors and effects, layer parts of images in stacks, adjust balances and global characteristics with precision, and clean up or completely revision photographs. Photoshop offers unique features and effects, though some argue that it does not replicate natural media as closely as other painting programs. Despite the criticisms, Photoshop is also the standard program for artists outside photography who create images from scratch. The recent rise of digital painting is popular in fantasy and commercial art. Anyone with a computer and determination can learn Photoshop and reproduce the same quality art exhibited in magazines, comics, and web literature... although, as the purists will remind us, it still takes artistic talent.

In this free Photoshop tutorial series, expert image editor Julio Costilla teaches you how to invert colors through a variety of methods. To create a picture part in color and part in black and white, targeting and desaturating some of the color is required. Julio leads you through, start to finish. You learn to use selction tools, vector masks, and adjustment layers to set saturation levels. Julio also offers CS3 tips for the Quick Select Tool and gamut warning. You will be fixing layers, using the shortcuts, and learning the Photoshop CS3 program.

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trade mark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. And I'm in no way affiliated with Adobe. O.k. so, in this clip I'm going to show you about opening a document. And we're going to actually create a color inverse type deal. What I mean by color inverse is, something that is in color yet it also has a color. It's black and white in color. I can't really explain it. But this is what I mean. As you can see his glasses are in color. And the rest of the image is in black and white. And I'm going to show you quick and easy methods of doing this. And I'm probably going to show you around three methods of doing this. That way, you can choose which one you'd like to use, best. So what I'm going to do, is open my first image that I want to use. And usually you want to use an image. This one is going to be a real classic case. It's going to be the case of the wedding. This is for the wedding tutor more than likely. Because for some reason, wedding people like to use this. And portrait people. And now I've got to actually find my picture. Now here's my picture, I want to use. As you can see, it's dark and. But it would look good if possibly these people were in color and the background was black and white. So this is a classic case of that wedding photograph. You capture that right moment. And you can actually create something that looks pretty decent. I'm going to actually show you how to do this in these next steps here. But for the most part I just wanted to show you what I mean by color inverse. And I wanted to open my document for me. You want to make sure that has something that really stands out. For instance, these people really stand out. Or like, say for instance, you had a bouquet of red flowers. That would stand out. But for the most part, we're going to use this image. So keep listening for the next tutorial."