Selecting confetti - advice please

[england1965]

Hello,

I have been asked by my latest bride to give her a confetti shot - where the confetti is in colour and the background is black and white.

When I last did this I selected each bit of confetti indivudually using the magnetic lasso tool thingummyjig. I actually found it quite theraputic for some strange reason ...

Anyway ... I want to do about 6 shots for her to choose from and I'd rather not do 6 individually. So my question is ...is there an "easy" way to simplify the selecting of individual pieces of confetti - or groups of confetti of ther same colour - to speed up the process.

I am happy with what to do once I have the confetti selected - it's just getting it selected in the first place. I tried the magic wand tool - but it seemed to select great swathes of the picture when all I wanted was the confetti.

Advice welcome

Cheers

Mark

[BarryM]

not sure if it would work but worth a try.

In cs, open image, then goto select colour range, now in that box im sure you can either invert image or something which might make the confetti bits stick out, or alternativly click on each bit of confetti so its chosen, then when happy with selection (bear in mind its a click not a select) u click ok and those bits "should be " selected.


Wow what a thought doing what you did with the first images.

[Chris Hawkins]

Individually selecting 3467 bits of confetti - I must try that:-) Barry's colour range idea is good - don't forget to select non-contigous in the menu bar. Taking Barry's second part a bit further you could use channels to help enhance the contrast between confetti and background and hence isolate them easier.

Another thought is use confetti of a single colour - if there is such a thing. Do they make matte confetti?

Anyway....1.......2......3... not many to go..... Cheers Chris

[BarryM]

Or even better if this all fails, get 30 sheets of A4 paper, rip them in half and use that as confetti, nice large flakes.


Jeez still contemplating the thought of individually selecting each confetti shot. WOW.

[tonymidd]

got a head ache just thinking about doing all that confetti. How about getting some white confetti? You could then do a mono conversion and colour in the confetti......hope she's paying for the time involved:blum2:

[Stemmy]

The way i do mine quickly is to duplicate the layer then desaturate the top layer.

Then select the top layer and using the rubber rub out the top layer leaving the coloured confetti showing from beneath.

loads of ways to do this.

next way

Desaturate the image. Then select the History Brush Tool. this is the brush with a little arrow on it (5th down on the left of the tool bar) then open the history section - you will see the stage where you changed the image to B&W or desaturated it. click the box on the left ONE STAGE ABOVE the desaturate stage. You will see a little history brush in the box.
Now what is happening is wherever on the image you use the brush its going back in history on that point - so changing the image back to colour.

God that sounds complicated but only really takes one minute to do.

Any problems understanding my garble please post and i will try and clarify.

[england1965]

thanks everyone - I will give them all a bash.

The bride on this occasion knew she wanted this shot in advance - so bought the largest flakes of confetti she could find.

Unfortunately - her understanding of "large" ...seems to have translated into "grains of rice" ...methinks her wedding night might have just been a dissapointment :wacko:

It does make me realise just how much of Photoshop I don't know ...frightening really!

Cheers everyone

Mark