Photoshop: Selectively colouring a photograph using the History Brush

A simple technique and one of many that can be used to knock out the colour in a picture and then put it back selectively to increase the impact.

Start with a picture that you want to use. The usual rules apply – don’t work with originals unless you are very good, work with a copy so the original is always there for you to go back to in the case of a disaster.

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use Web Images To Add Realism to Edited Photos

System Takes Advantage of Millions of Images on the Internet
Computer graphics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed systems for editing or altering photographs using segments of the millions of images available on the Web.
Whether adding people or objects to a photo, or filling holes in an edited photo, the systems automatically find images that […]