How do you make some elements of a photo color in an all black and white photo?

I've seen all black and white photos with a flower or something in color. Is there a way to do this on photoshop?

How do you make some elements of a photo color in an all black and white photo?
Yes indeed! There's probably a couple ways you could do it but here's what I would do:



Open your file.



Make a new layer on top of the main layer.



Fill the new layer with black.



Change the layer property to "color" (in the dropdown menu of choices in the layer window)



The whole image should turn black %26amp; white (or, if you made your overlay layer purple, for example, purple %26amp; white) ...so then just erase the black away from the things you want to be in the original colors!
Reply:As is true of many procedures in Photoshop, there are several ways of doing selective color. This is a quick and easy method.



First open your photo in PS of course.



Then go to Layer - Duplicate Layer



Click OK



Then go to Image - Adjustments - Hue / Saturation



Drag the Saturation slider all the way to the left to make the photo black and white.



Click OK



Then get the ERASER tool from the tool box on the left side of the screen. It is usually the next tool under the clone stamp tool. Just hover your mouse over the tool, and it will say Eraser.



When you have selected the Eraser, go up to the Brush options box at the top of the screen, and click on the downfacing arrow. Set the Hardness of the brush to 100% so you will have accurate control of selection. You may also need to raise or lower the brush size to suit.



Erase away any black and white from where you want the color to be revealed.



When done go to

Layer - Flatten Image



Then just do a Save As to wherever you want to save the photo.



hope this helps you



steve
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Heres how I do it in Photoshop.



Open your image and make a copy layer (Ctrl + J)



Make the top layer B%26amp;W (there are loads of ways to do this better than the usual de-saturate)



On the new B%26amp;W layer pull up a Layer Mask (The 'front loading washing machine' symbol on the layers toolbar)



Select a soft brush, making sure that Black is the foreground Colour, paint on the mask at 100%. Where you paint in Black the colour from the image below will show through. If you make a mistake painting with White will 'hide' it again.



There are loads of other ways to do this, such as using the History Brush, but I find this the easiest with most control.



Chris