What cameras have the custom color setting?

[toystoryma]

I've seen many pics here where certain colors just show in a black and white pic.. like snow and prince and just "red" show up..

what is that called? Im looking for that setting next time I get a new camera and wondering what it is? Im clueless!

Im looking at the canon SX100 IS Does anyone know if this camera has it??

 

[SnowWhiteMomma]

Your talking about something that is done in photoshop. There is no camera (that I am aware of that does this). My husband is a photographer and said he said it is called color replacement. Any photo from any camera can do this.

 

[KingStefan]

I think I know what you mean. Do you mean pictures where some characters show in color but the background is b&w?

I think all of these were done in post-processing. In other words, by downloading to a computer and processing the picture with a program like Paint Shop Pro or Photo Shop. It's easy to tell the program to find a border between two objects, like a person and the background, and then make one section black and white, and the other retain the color.

 

[SnowWhiteMomma]

PS, I am probally a little biased since my hubby shoots with a Cannon 40D and a Cannon 1D. I use all Cannon Point and shoot. I have always loved them.

 

[PinMadness]

My camera does this with no PhotoShop.

I have a Canon Powershot SD750.

Like this, right?

 

[toystoryma]

My camera does this with no PhotoShop.

I have a Canon Powershot SD750.

Like this, right?

YES!! Thats what I mean.. so is there an adjustment or something on the camera? so you choose "custom color" when you choose if you want to take the shot in b&w, sepia, etc??

 

[PinMadness]

YES!! Thats what I mean.. so is there an adjustment or something on the camera? so you choose "custom color" when you choose if you want to take the shot in b&w, sepia, etc??

It is called Color Accent. You focus in on which color you want to highlight and the camera does the rest.

And I may be mistaken, but I think that the Color Accent feature may be exclusive to Canon. When I was buying my camera, it was the only brand that had it.

 

[Nemo14]

It is called "Color Accent" and some Canons do have it. Unfortunately the model you are considering does not have it.

 

[SnowWhiteMomma]

Ohhh, I was talking about something different. Color accent can also be done on photoshop. Many of the powershots will do it. SLR's don't. Sorry about the misunderstanding.

 

[KingStefan]

Wow, that's cool. I've never heard of that before!

 

[NWDMD]

So I read this thread and learned about color accent, hadn't heard of it before then. I opened up dpreview.com to see if my canon camera had this feature, to my surprise, it listed it as a feature of my camera (A720 IS). However after looking for it for an hour (and then googling around a bit, I found out that it does not have color accent and dpreview.com's review of features was incorrect. So if you're still looking to buy a camera just because of this feature, scratch the a720is off the list (although i did find a cool tutorial on how to do it in photoshop). http://www.picturecorrect.com/photoshoptips/colorspots.htm