Selective Colorization using GIMP

Photoshop can be a tad expensive, so a lot of photographers turn to GIMP, an open source digital image editor with many of the same features.

A common trick of digital editing is Selective Colorization.  That is where you have a single color in an otherwise black and white photo.  Here is a straightforward tutorial on how to do that in GIMP. 

Here is an example.  Note the red on the belt.

Here is another example and two more.

At the end of the test

 

 

Old Belts being tossed in the air.

Students at MetroWest Martial Arts and Wellness tossing their old belts into the air after a test.