Colour popping

[Terrycanon]

A rainy day and not much colour in this shot, apart from the bike. It cried out for colour popping.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

It does look like a wet and grey day, and the red bike is colour popping indeed, Terry!

 

[Terrycanon]

The yellow of the bin and the traffic warden's jacket caught my eye

 

[Stiga]

A before and after for you



Select, dodge, burn and crop followed by a Luminar preset.

 

[vmlopes]

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder by Victor Lopes, on Flickr

 

[Stiga]

 

[Terrycanon]

The colour of the bag attracted me and there was little or no colour in the rest of the scene.

 

[Jack Dawe]

 

[Terrycanon]

I picked out some of the brighter colours for the fun of it. I know... too much time on my hands.

 

[SkedAddled]

I did this long ago and I sometimes like the effect,
but I'd love to find a simple PhotoShop tutorial for doing this.

I did selective coloring with this one back in 2008 and asked for tips
on how to do it, but most responses came at me with "It's such a tired look."
I can't find my result, but I'd love to play with it some more.

 

[DavidWatts]

Don't be scared! This only looks like a real cicada, but it is only art, just like the theater is for GlenArt's sake. Full color shot with no editing or color popping going on whatsoever. The background wall and ceiling were all a dull grey. The grey bulbs were just either burnt out or not switched on where the yellow ones were actually on. Notice the movie strip theme on the cicada wings.

Canon 5D3 Canon 24-105 L IS @ 47mm • f/5.6 • 1/30 • iso 250 • Larger Version in Gallery​

 

[fotoi]

 

[fotoi]

Sunset

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

...

 

[SkedAddled]

@fotoi and @Lester Wareham , I believe you've missed my reason for posting.

The picture I posted was in full-color mode; I've wanted to do selective color processing on it,
but nobody seemed interested, claiming I was wanting to use a 'tired' method on it.
Somebody did a full edit on it, while never explaining how it was done.
I'd like to learn how it was done. PS6 user here.

 

[Lester Wareham]

@fotoi and @Lester Wareham , I believe you've missed my reason for posting.

The picture I posted was in full-color mode; I've wanted to do selective color processing on it,
but nobody seemed interested, claiming I was wanting to use a 'tired' method on it.
Somebody did a full edit on it, while never explaining how it was done.
I'd like to learn how it was done. PS6 user here.

Not sure why you are directing that comment at me, I don't think I have posted in this thread, neither have I tried the technique. I might see if I can find something to try though.

 

[SkedAddled]

Not sure why you are directing that comment at me, I don't think I have posted in this thread, neither have I tried the technique. I might see if I can find something to try though.

Sorry, Lester. I'm not sure about it, either, now that I've looked back.
Musta been taking a mental vacation.

 

[Lester Wareham]

OK I have tried this, I'll show my working.

Before
arch Clovelly Harbour A09_03-05-24-0001-02 by Lester W, on Flickr

After
arch Clovelly Harbour A09_03-05-24-0001-02_pop by Lester W, on Flickr

All I did in photoshop was add a masked channel mixer mixer layer to monochrome masking out the red of the boat using select colour range and then painting with white or black to clean up the selection.

Layer Stack


Channel Mixer

 

[Lester Wareham]

Sorry, Lester. I'm not sure about it, either, now that I've looked back.
Musta been taking a mental vacation.

Not to worry, that is my default state these days!

 

[fotoi]

@fotoi and @Lester Wareham , I believe you've missed my reason for posting.

The picture I posted was in full-color mode; I've wanted to do selective color processing on it,
but nobody seemed interested, claiming I was wanting to use a 'tired' method on it.
Somebody did a full edit on it, while never explaining how it was done.
I'd like to learn how it was done. PS6 user here.

Try the tutorial from YouTube. I can't paste the link for some reason, but the Channel is Anna Gaudio and the title of video is Photoshop CS6 Selective Color.