Christmas Ornaments Photoshop

Ans 1:
Duplicate the photo and close the original. Create another layer by Layer > New Adjustment Layer and select Saturation/Hue. In the window or dialog box that opens, slide the Saturation slider all the way to the left. Your photo will be b/w in this layer. Click OK. You now have two layers, the background which is color and the adjustment layer. The adjustment layer has two icons, one for Sat/Hue and the other to the right. It is solid white. Click once in this white box. Change your colors to the default black and white. With black as the foreground color. Select the Brush tool. Paint the area of the photo you want to be in color. Set the Brush tool to size and softness that works best for the photo you have.

This is a mask. In a mask, black reveals the layer below it. White covers it. If you mess up a little with the black, switch to white and paint over your mess up. This is by far the easiest and best way to do what you wish.

If you wish to make the black and white layer a sepia tone, double click on the Saturation/Hue icon in the layer to reopen those adjustments. Click the box Colorize and move the Hue slider to the color you like best. Click OK when finished

Ans 2:
1. With a selection tool, magic wand, magnetic lasso, lasso or polygon lasso, select your subject – the person. How well this looks will depend upon your skill with the mouse making the selection. Zoom in to get a close look. While selecting, if you need to get to an edge, press the space bar to temporarily reveal the Hand for moving the image. If not careful you will lose the selection and have to start over.

Also look at the options bar for the selection tool. There are four icons. The first is a single square = new selection. The next one is two overlapping squares = add to current seletion, the third one is two overlapping squares one without fill = substrate from current selection, the last you should not worry about for now.

2. Once the selection is complete — menu Select > Save Selection, give it a name and click OK. If you need to bring it back, Select > Load Selection.

3. With the selection still visible, Edit > Copy, then Edit > Paste. You will not see immediately anything different. Goto menu Window > Layer if Layers is not visible. You should see two layers, one the Background the other Layer 1. Click the “eye” in the Background Layer (left most column in the Layer pallette.) Now you see only what you selected.

4. Without closing the image you have been working on, Open the image that has the background you want to use. Make adjustments in pane size so you can see both images at least partically.

5. Click on the “person” image to make it your focus. Select the Move tool, Ctrl+V, click on the “person”, hold and drag to the “background” image.

6. Job done. However, if you need to resize the “person”, select the Transformation tool, Ctrl+T, and use the handles to resize. Pressing the Shift key and grabbing a corner handle will resize the image maintaining it proportion.

Christmas Ornament in Photoshop Elements 5