Red Is A Primary Colour

Red seems to be another important colour for this year's media project as well. Red is a distinctive, meaningful and interesting colour. In our AS media project we used a red filter for Tie (our short film opening sequence). Here we are using it yet again. Here are some shots i've edited using photoshop to portray the red filter we intend to use in our music video.

As you can see the red filter has made everything else black and white. I acheived this effect simply by:
1. Duplicating the layer
2. Desaturating the bottom layer
3. Using the magic toolbrush tool to make a selection of anything that is red (top layer)
4. Inverting selection and deleting (or cutting) inverted selection

And there you are... 4 easy steps will help you to produce this effect. Because there are two layers and the bottom one being black and white - when you delete the selection on the top layer only what you selected will show. In other words red on top, black and white on bottom.

 Here is a preview of the process in Photoshop. As you can see, two layers and my selection. Simple.