Dear Debbie. . .

Hand Coloring Help

Dear Debbie,

I have both Photoshop Elements and Photoshop. If I want to color the berries red in a grayscale image, how do I do it? How do I colorize part of a picture that I changed from color to black-and-white?

Thanks for the help,

Stuck in Monochrome,
Central Lake, MI

Why Can't I Tone My Blacks?

Dear Debbie,

I have always been a fan of Ansel Adams and I learned that he sometimes used selenium toner to get the cold blue-blacks in his images.  I have tried using Photoshop CS2 with some tone applied as your article in the November issue shows, but I can't seem to get the blue cast into solid black areas.  I use a Canon Pixma 5000 with 4 ink cartridges.  Is there a 3rd party black ink that might help, or some other solution?

Signed,
Black and Blue in Cold Spring, KY