Comments on: Selective greyscale in The GIMP

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:05:25 +0000

As I said - there are loads of ways of doing it.

Use whichever seems easiest to you!

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:39:39 +0000

Even easier way…

Duplicate the image, desaturate the copied layer, and erase the portions of it that you want to be colorized…

By: IGD

IGD — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:26:46 +0000

Great tutorial.. But there is an easier way to do this. Just select the part of the flower you want in color. Copy paste in another layer. Desaturate the entire picture (layer 1) and voila!

By: tiny tim

tiny tim — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:58:50 +0000

wow, got this on stumble. Have seen a million tuts on how to do it on ps but none for the gimp. Brilliant! please do more tuts and you might get a bookmark

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:13:29 +0000

Thank you
it is as just as stephentrepreneur saied:easy to follow instructions!
and thanks that it is Gimp and not Photoshop….

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:25:04 +0000

Glad you found it useful!
I will try to think of some more gimp tutorials soon, so check back to see what I come up with.
Duplicating the image first might work better as you say. There are other ways, but I would need to play with them to remember exactly how to do them.

By: stephentrepreneur

stephentrepreneur — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:13:03 +0000

Thanks for these easy to follow instructions! Well written and actually worked. Only one small thing I’d change: Duplicate and make the grey-scale image first before doing anything, then start the right-clicking. Painting the quickmask with white certainly speeds up the process - but I’d love a WACOM tablet to improve the quality of vertical and horizontal lines!
Using your technique I was able to produce this pink flower on a grey background in just under two hours. Not bad for a first time!