grayscale in selected area in color image, help needed

[Nedis]

Hi,
Im very new at photoshop and I have been looking for a tutorial that could help me with this problem. Since I could not find any I write this question to all of you. All help will be very appreciated.

I have a color image of a painting. In this image I would like to create a selected area that is gray scaled. However, it would be preferred if the color image was "smoothed" to gray scale image so I would not get an abrupt boarder.

Thanks!
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[iDad]

Sounds like the perfect job for the desaturate sponge tool
adjust tolerance level %
On itouch just tossing idea out there another member can be more clear

[Crapaud]

There are a number of ways to do this, but the 'smoothing' depends on feathering a hard edged selection before desaturating or using a soft edged brush.

Do a search for selection methods, like this, rather than for desaturating

[jerryb]

hi,
keep in mind with photoshop... there always more than one of doing something...

and like mentioned there different ways to get the same results and there are many tutorials on this..... but anyway

here a couple of ways...
1. dup orginal layer
2. on the dupl layer either use, the hue and saturation tool to remove all color (just slide the bar to the left), or you can use the desaturate feature , or if your version of ps has black and white adj use that... bottom line your removing the colors....

3. now your going to be adding a mask and there a couple of different ways yo can do this to get the results you want....
a. now you can just add a black mask (hide everything) to the dup layer and then paint white over the area you want to show grey parts of the image....
note: go to the menu to add a black mask... or there add the bottom of the pallet you can add a black mask by doing a alt+cclick the "add mask"

b. or select the areas your want, then add a black mask
note: holding down the shift key when selectng will allow you to have multible selections ...

that just a couple of ways,,, have fun using the different meathod

[gratchen]

I would like to take a photo, and turn it to black and white (I can figure that one out) however, I would like to colorize just the eyes on the photo - can anyone help me to do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated