THe absolute coolest camera feature I've ever seen

“With a single snap of the shutter I can acomplish something that would take me freaking hours of work at photoshop.





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“Maybe I'm naive, but can you tell us how you did it?”

“You're MacGyver, damnit!

Figure it out on your own!!!”

“LOL!”

“My new Pentax Optio S40 has several built in digital filters. This one in particular is called the "B&W + Red", where if filters out anything that's not red and turns it black and white. Very neat effect. Normally I'll go black and white conversion or stuff like Sepia with photoshop.

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“Very nice. I'll have to see if mine will do that now. I'm impressed. You actually read the manual. I need to RTFM too.”

“Oh come on. It wouldn't have taken HOURS in Photoshop. lol

Now you have me thinking about that. I'm not so good at layers... so there may be something easier than this (OK, so doing it on your camera is easy, BUT what if you want to do this to something other than red, hmmmmmmmmmmmm???????? lol)

1. Have the color shot in PS. "save as" a second shot, which you then make grayscale.

2. Select what ya want, whether it's by just one color (using either "select color" or "replace color"), or by using the magic wand, to tracing an outline of something.

3. "Copy" it when you have your selections made on the color photo.

4. "Paste" into the grayscale shot. Remember you can move your item with one of the tools for exact placement.

5. "Flatten image" Well, unless you want to keep the two layers.

VOILA! Probably 5 minutes. :-) lol”

“>>>2. Select what ya want, whether it's by just one color (using either "select color" or "replace color"), or by using the magic wand, to tracing an outline of something.<<<

That step is much easier said then done, especially with all the detail of the first photo!”

“That's the technique I use to get rid of red eye in photos. Or... if there's bad glasses glare (from flash) combined with red eye, I may just use the circular selection tool to get the "good" eyeball... and then paste it over the offending eye. LOL! Oh yeah, and this is all done in just the one shot. Although you still need to flatten.”

“Oh... and to set the record straight... I never read the manual. Took me 3 day to find that feature.”

“Even better.”

“Mine doesn't have that feature. I have b&w, sepia, white board and black board.”

“Took me a minute to see what you did, I just thought it was my color blindedness, or poor screen color.”

“Interesting. I agree about hours in PhotoShop. As far as I can see, anything takes hours in PS. But then. I'm technologically challenged.”

“Red eye reduction in Photoshop, my method given above. 30 seconds. Or maybe 1 minute if you have to clone a wee bit.”

“Hours? It only takes 30 seconds or so for me.

Lizs that is one way but pasting and aligning can be a real pain in the azz. Try this way, I think you will like it better.
1. Copy on new layer
2. select color range on new (top)layer
3. create layer mask
4. desaturate original (bottom) layer

Still, I gotta agree that is one hella cool feature in a camera.”

“I don't know how to do masks. :-(

I actually bought the "Photoshop for Dummies" book hoping to find out how to do that and other stuff with layers. Was I ever pissed to when it said that was too complicated and would not be addressed in the book. PFFFFFFFT!!”

“You could also just turn off the blue and green channels. That would leave only red.”

“Well that book is garbage.

The quick mask button is the second button to the right on the bottom of the layers pallette. Just click it.

Turning off channels does not work to produce this effect. Turning off all but one leaves the image as grayscale.”

“Don't ya hate when you need a manual to explain the manual?”

“I'm gonna try the pack-mule method when I get home. Though... it's still a helluva lot easier to do with the camera ;)”

“Well yeah. I'd hope so.”