Can someone help me with black and white backgrounds?

[Driftnewb110]

Hello everybody. What Im trying to do is a colored car with a black and white background. I just cut out the colored version, and pasted it onto the black and white version. Can someone please teach me how to do this properly in GIMP? Thanks

 

[usedHONDA]

What programs do you have?
GIMP and Paint.NET are the best free ones.
Here you go. I can make the reflection in the windows B&W if you want. I need to redo part of it.

 

[Driftnewb110]

I used GIMP. What I did was cut out the colored car, and paste it onto the black and white copy. Whats a better way to do it?

 

[usedHONDA]

Use the magic wand a hundred billion times (better than rectangle selecting a thousand billion times ).

 

[dougiemeats]

Hello everybody. What Im trying to do is a colored car with a black and white background. I just cut out the colored version, and pasted it onto the black and white version. Can someone please teach me how to do this properly in GIMP? Thanks

Here's a nice little tutorial.

 

[Driftnewb110]

Here's a nice little tutorial.

thanks dougiemeats

 

[Azuremen]

GIMP has the pen tool. Use that to do a selection around the car. The invert the selection, and use the Hue/Saturation to pull the color out.

And presto, should have a nice Grayscale BG with subject

 

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