PiCKLEBERRYPOP

Selective coloring can be a tricky thing, depending on the way you decide to go about it. This tutorial will show you and easy way to go about it (because we all like easy, right??)
​ Here’s the original photo I’ll be working with:

​At the end only the rose in the forefront will be red – the rest of the photo will be black & white!
First, duplicate your photo:

​Desaturate the duplicate:

​Next, add a Layer Mask with “Reveal All”

This is what your layer palette should look like now:

The white of the layer mask is covering your photo. Click on the white mask to make sure it’s selected

Next, select your brush tool and make sure you have the default colors selected (black for foreground color and white for background color)

​Now, with the brush tool & making sure that black is your foreground color, start coloring over the part of the photo that you want colored:

T​he black color erases the mask so that your original photo can be seen behind it.
If you go “outside the lines” of what you want in color, that’s ok….

​Just flip the black & white colors so that you use white instead of black and go over the part you don’t want in color:

​White puts the black and white photo back into your image.

​Then flip the white back to black and continue on.  Here you can see where I ‘colored’ black on the mask and the result:

And the finished photo:

There are loads of ways to get to the same result, but I’ve found this one to be the easiest so far. You can even use this method explained earlier this month to achieve the same goal. If there’s a different method you use, I’d love to hear about it!