Painting away colour, AKA Colour Popping, is a popular technique that can produce interesting results: in this mini tutorial, I will demonstrate how to remove colour using [1] Paint Shop Pro and [2] Photoshop’s Paint Brush Tool.

To begin, open your choice of Start Image onto Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop’s workspace.

Important
Set Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop’s Foreground Swatch to Solid Black and set the Background Swatch to Solid White.

(Photoshop students, press your D Key).

Paint Shop Pro 7 Only
From the left-side Tools Toolbar, activate the Paint Brush Tool .

Then create a New Raster Layer - Layers then New Raster Layer.  Now, change the New Layer’s [3] Blending Mode from Normal to Colour - as illustrated below.

And enter the following settings into Paint Shop Pro 7’s Tool Options Palette.

Paint Shop Pro 8, 9, X, XI, X2 Photo And Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 (Extended)

From the left-side Tools Toolbar, activate the Paint-Brush Tool.

Then from the Tool Options Bar, select a small round (hard) brush; and enter the following Colour Blending Mode settings. ([4] Blending Modes Paint Shop Pro - [5] Blending Modes Photoshop).

Paint Shop Pro 8, 9, X, XI, X2 Photo

Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 (Extended)

Now, Paint Shop Pro 7, 8, 9, X, XI, X2, Photo and Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 (Extended): if you apply your Paint Brush over the Start Image, you will notice the Brush is painting away your photograph’s colour.  This is because you have changed the Paint-Brush Tool’s Blending Mode from Normal to Colour.

Now you are familiar with this popular technique, you can have lots of fun colour-popping your favourite images.

The following examples show some of my colour-popping [6] artwork.

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Best Wishes.

[8] Wendi E M Scarth.  (21st August 2009).

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