Foo - Grayscale and Color mixed: Landscapes

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Interesting idea. I'd play if i had photoshop on this computer. I actually do water colors of buildings in the exact opposite you've shown. I draw the building as a simple line drawing in ink and then watercolor around it. The white becomes the focus of the whole thing.

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2971764-lg.jpg
How about a cityscape?

I am sure it's simple, but how do you do that? 1) Put a grayscale image on top of the original and then just "erase" around where you want the color? 2) Or some type of complicated masking/composting thing which I don't really understand?

I am sure it's simple, but how do you do that? 1) Put a grayscale image on top of the original and then just "erase" around where you want the color? 2) Or some type of complicated masking/composting thing which I don't really understand?

More like 2 but it's not complicated.

Draw a line around the part you want colored (which can be a lot of work) and separate the image at that line (so you have a foreground part and a background part). With two separate images, you can do different things to each and easily combine them together at the end.

If you're using photoshop, try pulling the element you want to spot color into a new layer and create a mask. This way you can fine tune the edges/blending and don't end up 'coloring outside the lines.'

That falls looks kinda like Wolf Creek where it dumps into the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park.