Selective Coloring: 50 Beautiful Photographs
Selective coloring is a wonderful technique of making a select area of a photograph colorful. Rest of the photograph is turned into a black and white picture. Selective coloring is a post processing technique which means that this technique is applied only on photographs that are already taken.
Selective coloring is usually done by turning an entire photograph into a black and white picture with the exception of the areas which the photographer wants to keep colored. This effect is attained by using layers and masks in most modern image editing software like PhotoShop, GIMP and SilverFast. This technique of turning some areas of black and white photographs into color is especially useful when you want to draw viewers attention to a particular area in the image, and not distract him/her with other content of the photograph. Small colorful areas in an otherwise monochrome image immediately draw the viewer’s eye.
In this post, we have showcased beautiful, stunning and awe-inspiring examples of selective coloring photography. These photos show the power of combining a little bit of color to otherwise black and white photographs.
Crayons Selective Color
Disney World
F15E Strike Eagle
Geese at Titchwell
Kind of Magic
phone selective colour
Post Office Selective Color
Selective Color Biker
Selective Color Butterfly
selective colour tute A 10
sunset after the rain selective colour
Train 5771 Re-Do
True Colors water
True colors
Work At Night Selective Colour
Stockholm Sweden Horses
Up into the Wild Gray Yonder
Bubbles by InfiniteRogue
Lifes a Bucket of Paint
Umbrella Lake
Marat Safin and the selective color
Peacock
Koenigsegg CCX Selective Color
Lens, Heart Selective Colored
Seeking Enlightenment
chameleon Selective
Girl in desert
Adrift by Locopelli
Paintbrushes by YuriPanda
Selective Double Vision
Selective Parrots
Telephone in Selective Colour
Converse Shoes, Selective Coloring
Echinacea
Start Line
Blue Star
Aviator sunglasses at Jacobs Field
Fargo
Lucy of Loch Ard
Tora Selective Colouring
Easter, Selective Colors
Yellow City Taylorgraphix by Notice the Color
Classic mini red
Hollybank Reserve-mushroom
Lightbox_Matches
The Chosen One
Out of the blue
Marks of Autumn
Bellagio Entrance
Pencil Rainbow
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Amazing, fantastic, all of the above. That’s the only way to describe these photos. Great work
Awesome pics. I am truly inspired. I try doing something similar with Photo Delight app for iPad. Great app for selective coloring.
Thanks for a great post and photography, really inspirational. I”ll try to create smth similar with Color Splash Studio – good for amateurs and beginners like me
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I really like the one with the Umberella and the lake. I think its amazing!!
awesome picture! cool, stunning and incredible! love the “Yellow City Taylorgraphix” thumbs up!
every single one of those photographers should be hunted down and beaten to death with their camera or mouse!
I am building a series of paintings mimicking the Selective Coloring technique …your post is a source of GRT!! inspiration.
…grabbing the RSS and bookmarking in hopes of future updates to this and similar posts.
AWESOME!!
These are very nice photos. I love the one with the crayons. The color is beautiful.
There’s a vast quantity of details around the weblog you have began. Thanks.
Thanks for including my picture in here.
Wow its so beautiful and too big collection of black and white photos…..Thanks
Thanks for sharing the nice post with me, an girl who firmly follows the fashion trend, It really brings me some fresh feelings with addtional insights into today’s world.
These are 50 magnificently poorly executed examples of an overused and horribly outdated technique. Good job suffering through this and collecting samples of what not to do, as a warning to the rest of the world.
Wow. What a hideous gallery. I’m amazed that people still think there is something redeeming about selective coloring.
Awesome shots!
Dreadful. Who doesn’t look at these and *immediately* think “they’ve done that selective colour thing”? Maybe fine for ramming a point home in editorial work, but beyond that I really don’t see the point.
thank you for the great pictures. really enjoyed them
This is such a great collection of selective color. The awesome thing is the very first photo is mine. Neat. Thanks!
I like Disney World very much!
Nice collection
Whow, this is a great technique. Great collection.
I’ll will try this in Photoshop on some of my own pictures.