A few people were interested in learning how to do this:
I don't have a fancy camera. It's a run-of-the-mill Point and Shoot that fits in my pocket -- Canon PowerShot SD780 IS Digital Elph. The info I'll share comes from the Color Accent section on pg. 89 in the manual, just simplified a bit because I thought they listed too many steps.
Rough drawing of the back of the camera
I wanted a colorful subject, but it's dark outside so I couldn't do flowers. I used a Life cereal box instead and went from this...
To this...
...by changing the setting on the camera. Here's how to do it.
- Turn on camera
- Set to "camera" icon on top right button (in between "AUTO" and the video icon)
- Push "FUNC. SET" button
- Push side arrow button (lightning bolt/flash button) until you highlight the eyedropper with a capital "A"
- Push "FUNC. SET"
- Push DISP.
- A little square frame will show up in the middle of the screen. Aim the camera at your subject and fill that frame with the color you want to highlight. I aimed the camera so the little frame was filled with the blue color of the "l" from "Life"
- Push the left arrow button (flower/mountain icon) until the rectangle frame at the bottom of the screen displays the color you want to highlight.
- Push DISP.
- Take picture
That's it!
- To go back to the normal mode push "FUNC. SET" and then use the side arrow button to select whatever.
- Works in video mode also. The only difference is to set camera to video icon instead of camera icon in the first step. Very cool.
I did all the letters in "Life" -- here's green.
Orange.
I didn't like how the red was highlighted as well. There's a way to "specify the range of colors" -- as they say in the manual. For the above picture it included a range of similar colors, so it really picked up the red. For the next picture I had it limit the range of colors, as far "negative" as it would go. Not a HUGE difference.
Red. Same issues, but I couldn't tell a difference between the 2 different ranges -- one as far "up" as it would go, the other as far "down" as it would go -- so I only posted one picture.
And if you want to get really crazy you can go beyond Color Accent and do a Color Swap. I changed the green "i" to purple-ish. But I'm not really sure how I did it.
Hope this helps someone. It actually helped me a lot because now I know how to do it without handing the camera to my husband OR looking at the silly manual.