Could you kindly share how you could shoot the whole image in BW and get the signal in color?

Posted by Lakshman Thodla on 2007 Jun 04 13:50:22 +0000

Its very simple...take any image editing program that deals in layers. Create duplicate layer of the photo, change one of the layers to BW, erase BW layer at the object you want to retain in colour. Merge layers, flatten image. You are done. More examples here - flickr.com/photos/gvarshney
GIMP is open source (and free) equivalent of photoshop.

Posted by Gaurav Varshney on 2007 Jun 04 16:07:46 +0000

No photoshop.No playing with layers.This image went straight into the gallery after resizing.My camera(canon A410) has a "colour accent" feature in the manual mode.Here i can select any one colour from the scene and the camera will retain that colour alone in the scene.For example if there was a woman in red saree near the signal,her saree too would have retained the colour.In this case,I picked the colour from Naveen's red coloured shoulder bag.Similarly in another mode,I can request my camera to change colour A to colour B.Am sure all digital cameras have this feature.

Posted by Ashwanth on 2007 Jun 04 18:05:37 +0000

No Ashwanth, not all digital cameras have this feature. In fact, this is the first camera where I am hearing of this feature.

Posted by Jagadheep D on 2007 Jun 05 17:37:07 +0000

Finally! a fellow IRFCAn with a Canon A410! I thought I was the only one stuck with it... Canon Rulz man! I think this colour accent/colour swap is a new addition in Canon.

Posted by Sriram P on 2007 Jun 18 15:59:25 +0000