Grayscale with color

Hello,

I am trying to take a color picture, make it B&W and then pull out some color in certain areas in the B&W picture.

Can someone shoot some methods on how to accomplish this?

Cheers, Jake.

hi there probably a few different ways to do that...

1. one way is using the history brush for example...
let say you may a duplicate of the orginal layer
then yo desaturated... then use the history brush to paint over the ariea you want color.....
2. you can use the selection tool to restrict color for just one area
3. or you can use the selct-copy-paste routing of the area you want colored.

which one is best will depend on the image and the workflow your using to
make your image black and white

The look you're going for is called "spot coloring".

The most accurate way, and the least "destructive" (aka: you can always adjust it later if you'd like, rather than having to start all over again), is to make a new adjustment layer by clicking the little half-black, half-white circle icon in the layers palette (the window where all your layers are located), and then choose "Hue/Saturation". Lower the saturation slider all the way to -100, then click OK. You should have a layer above your Background which has two boxes in it with a paper-clip-looking symbol between it. Click on the empty box on the right, and now use your brush tool with pure black selected as a color. Wherever you brush, the color from your background layer will show through

Good tips guys...bravo!