Inverting and Saturating

[scrivomcdivo]

I'm absolutely brand new to Photoshop and this forum so please forgive me if this question has been asked 101 times. I've tried the search function on this forum but to no avail.

Basically, I am selecting a colourful flower within a landscape picture, inverting the rest of the image and then saturating it so that the background is greyscale and the colour of the flower stands out within the picture. Nonetheless, the dividing line between the outline of the flower and the background is very harsh.

Is there a way of smoothing out this line so that the background and the flower will blend more?

 

[galaxie292]

desaturating the background

There's a little easier way to accomplish what you're trying to do; use the brush tool. With your picture in full color, select the brush tool & set your "fill color" to white. When you have the brush tool selected, you should see a drop-down menu at the top of your window that says "Mode: Normal" Use the drop-drown menu to select "saturation". Now, as you use the brush tool, it will turn everything you paint into grayscale. Using the size adjustments and various types of brushes, you'll be able to get a much softer and subtle effect than what you're trying to do currently.

Good Luck!

 

[scrivomcdivo]

Galaxie292, thanks for your reply. I'll give that a try tomorrow