erasing the donut...

[clou]

My friend uses Photoshop. I use Digital Image. She did an image where she used a picture of a child eating a donut. She changed the image to B & W but left the donut in color (candy sprinkles on a chocloate covered donut). I loved this technique so I tried it. I duplicated the color picture & placed them one on top of the other. I made the top image B & W. I tried to use the erase tool under the "paint brush, freehand" to remove the b & w donut to reveal the colored donut underneath. Nothing happened. The entire b & w image did not change. Can anyone say what I should have done?

[joannknnrd]

Try using the transparency brush to remove the donut from the b&w photo.

[Minniewannabe]

"Colorized" B&Ws are easy in DIP. I don't have DIP installed on this computer, so my instructions may seem a little flakey, but hopefully you'll get the gist:

1. Open up the photo you want to colorize.
2. Open a new page. I use 12" x 12".
3. Drag the photo onto your 12" x 12" new page.
4. Size the photo to how you want it.
5. In your example above, you said there was a doughnut, so we'll pretend we have a doughnut we want to leave colorized.
6. With the selection tool, the freeform one, cut around the doughnut. Then make sure your subtraction option is checked and cut around the middle of the doughnut. Obviously, you only want the doughnut colorized, not what shows through in the middle.
7. With your doughnut now selected, go to Edit, then Duplicate Object.
8. Now click back on the big photo somewhere away from the doughnut. Choose the B&W option.
9. Your doughnut cutout will remain in color and the top layer. But there's still a problem. The color of the doughnut is too dramatic for it to look like it was colorized by a professional photographer.
10. Click on the colored doughnut layer. Choose transparency, and give it about a 20 to 30% transparency so that the color remains, but looks brushed on.

HTH