It’s even easier than you may think! :-)<\/p>\n
The image above was edited by me in less than 5 minutes, and yet, the final effect is quite impressive!<\/p>\n How it is done?<\/p>\n There are probably more than five ways to achieve a similar effect, but here’s how I proceeded:<\/p>\n 1) Open a digital photograph in Fireworks; This technique can be quite effective, if applied to the right kind of image. In this case the original<\/a> is very good for this purpose, as color is almost missing from it.<\/p>\n You can try to play with colors in GIMP, Fireworks, Photoshop — I don’t think there will be much difference in any contemporary graphics pogram:)<\/p>\n![\"wild](\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2009\/09\/img_6815_wild_strawberry_fireworks.th.jpg\")
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\n(original photo by Ani<\/a>, CC)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n2) ctrl+shift+D (cmd+shift+D on a Mac) to clone the layer with the photo;
\n3) In the Layers panel you now have 2 identical layers, both of them in color;
\n4) Select the lower layer, “lock” it in the Layers panel;
\n5) Select the upper layer, use menu Commands > Creative > Convert to Grayscale<\/strong> to convert it to black & white;
\n6) Now you have a b&w layer above a color layer<\/a>;
\n7) From now on, it is easy: simply delete (use Marquee Tool, Eraser Tool, or a combination of both)<\/em> parts of the upper, b&w layer, and the color parts will start to show through! Done! :-)<\/p>\n
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