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In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn an easy way to create a popular selective coloring effect, converting a photo to black and white while leaving the main subject in full color. If that sounds complicated or time consuming, it's not. In fact, as we'll see, the entire effect can be created in just a few short steps using nothing more than a selection tool, an adjustment layer and a layer mask! To create the effect, we'll be using a Black & White image adjustment. Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial: Step 1: Select the main subject in the photo (Lasso Tool, Quick Selection Tool, Pen Tool, etc), in this tutorial, i selected the phone booth and bus, draw a selection outline around the main subject of your photo.  When you're done, you should see a selection outline (the marching ants) around your subject. Step 2: We now have selected the main subjects, and we want the background to be black and white. What we have to do now is

Want to change the background of your photo? Do it yourself with Photoshop. One of the most useful skills you can learn in Photoshop is removing the background from an image. This will allow you to stick the subject in any picture that you want, without having to worry about blending backgrounds, or dealing with large expanses of plain white. Step 1 Open the image in Photoshop. Step 2 Navigate to the Layers window and duplicate the image, so that you will have a back up.  Select your image layer click ctrl+J for windows or option+J for Mac, and hide the original layer (click the eye icon) Step 3 Create a solid color below the duplicated image, click    icon and select solid color, choose any dark color you want, this will help you to see the residues. Step 4 Select background eraser tool, and set the settings (you can play on the values, this will depend on your image) Step 5 Start erasing your background,  play around with the eraser s

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In this tutorial we’ll create a trendy double exposure effect in Adobe Photoshop with the help of Blending Modes and Clipping Masks in a few steps. You can download and use the images here  woman https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-girl-hairs-portrait-69494/ sunset https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunset-147465/ city https://www.pexels.com/photo/city-lights-during-night-time-25926/ STEP 1 Open the woman image in photoshop, lets make it black and white. In this tutorial, i used the threshold method. Go to  Image > Adjustment > Threshold. Adjust the value to 111 (you can play on the value). STEP 2 Next, let's open the second image (city), drag and drop it on top of the woman layer. Adjust the size until it fit the body part, change the layer mode to "SCREEN" mode, right click mouse then choose create "CLIPPING MASK". Now you will see the city layer image is now overlaying on woman body. STEP 3 Next, open the third image (sunset), drag