Open Adobe Photoshop
Click on “File” on the menu bar and then select the “open” option.
Now “open” window will open up, select the desired photo and click on the “open” button.
The photo you have selected will appear in Photoshop. Now look for the “layers” window in Photoshop, if you can’t found it click on “window” on menu bar and select “layers” or use “F7” key. Now you will be able to see layers window at the right side of Photoshop, it looks like below.
In the layers window click on layers tab and right click on image and select “duplicate layer”. Now “Duplicate Layer” window will open up, in that window give name ad “duplicate1” and click ok. This will create duplicate layer of the first image with the name “duplicate1” as shown below.
Now select “duplicate1” layer and then select “Image” from menu bar and click on “Adjustments” and then “Desaturate”. You can also use short cut Shift+Ctrl+U to desaturate photo. Now your photo will appear as black and white photo.
Now again create duplicate of “duplicate1” layer by right clicking and selecting “duplicate layer” option. Name the new duplicate layer as “duplicate2”.
Now you have to make “duplicate2” layer as a invisible layer, this can be done by clicking on the eye icon which is present on the left side of the “duplicate2” layer. After making “duplicate2” layer as invisible, layers window looks like below.
Next step is to create a vector mask to the”duplicate1″ layer, to do this first select “duplicate1” layer and click on vector mask option which is available in the layers window ( see the image below ). By doing these steps vector mask of “duplicate1” layer will be created.
Now click on “duplicae1” layer and select “Image” from menu bar and click on “Apply Image” option. Now apply image window will open up, do not change any options and click on “ok” button.
Now select “duplicate1” layer and click on “Filter” option available on menu bar. Now drop down menu will appear, select “stylize” and then select “Find Edges” option. Now photo looks like this.
Now select “duplicate2” layer and select “Eraser” tool and then erase the area of the photo which you want to highlight. Here in this photo I want to highlight jewellery, So I have erased the area where jewellery appears. Now photo looks like this.
Now Select File and click on Save and save your image in JPEG format.
Steps to Enhance Jewellery Colour
If you want to enhance the colour of the highlighted area of the photo follow these below steps. You can notice the difference clearly in below photos – left side photos is before enhancement and right side image is obtained after applying steps below for enhancement.
Select the first original picture from layers window (not duplicate layers).
And click on “Image” from the menu bar and then click on “Adjustments” and then select “colour balance”.
Now colour balance window will open up. Select “Highlights” option under Tone Balance and adjust colour levels as you like and click on “Ok”.
Save the image in JPEG format.
