How do highlight certain things in a black/white photo?

Meaning if you have a black and white photo and you have one thing in color in that picture...like a shirt.... How do you do that?How do highlight certain things in a black/white photo?
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





steveHow do highlight certain things in a black/white photo?
It depends on the editing program you are using :)
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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 other 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