Yeah sure, no worries. 😉 The key to Photoshopping is with layers. Heres a few quick pointers on how to do this:
– Make two layers (one with colour, one without).
How do you do this? Open up your image and get the cropping and any re-sizing done first. After you’re happy with it – press CTRL+A, then CTRL+C, then CTRL+V. This has copied and pasted a new layer on top of the original shot.
– Desaturate
To take the colour out you can either make the saturation -100, or use the ‘desaturate’ option: (in PS CS2: Image/Adjustments/Desaturate).
– Expose colour
Now the top layer is B & W, you can cut out the desired bits by using the ‘Lasso Tool’. Just follow the edges carefully and then join it up to where you started. After you’ve made a shape around the whole tail – press delete and this will expose the colour on the first layer.
Hope that all makes sense. If not, drop me a PM and I’ll send you some screenshots.
Cheers,
Alex
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