PSE 5 question

[lil_angel]

Hi
I am trying to get a pic of a child to be in B&W and just the eyes in colour, I can get it to the magic eraser stage, but when i use the eraser, it does some of the skin around the eyes, I have tried to zoom in and i am geting really close but the skin still appears, only a little but but too much for my liking, i have changed the size of the brush but still no luck..... any ideas?:confused:

[SharLamb]

Are you using a hard edge brush?

Is your feathering set too high?

I'm no expert here, but those two things popped to my mind.

Shar

[lucianj]

Sent you a PM.

[Wendy]

My guess is also that your brush is too soft and probably that the image is low resolution ..

Wendy :)

[O2BNGdHope]

I don't know if this is right or not, but I did it this way. I brought in the photo. Copied it to another layer. Create new layer. Used magnetic lasso around just the pupils. Then made the 1st layer (the copy) B&W. Then merged both layers. This left the layer with the pupils in color and no skin around the eye!

Here's the link to my layout using this technique.

http://www.elementsvillage.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=7279&c=4