How do you highlight a part of photo in photoshop?

i have a photo with two people in it, i want to make the whole thing a certain dull colour, then have one of the two people left in the normal colours as they were in the original photo.





is this possible?


if so, please tell me how.


thanks heaps :)How do you highlight a part of photo in photoshop?
I don't have photoshop in front of me so I cannot give exact steps. But here is what you need to do:





1. Duplicate your layer in case you mess up.


2. Use the lasso tool and outline the 2 people into one selection


3. Using menu at top of program modify the selection and feather it to maybe 10 (you will need to play with this)


4. Then invert your selection so the background is select not the people.


5. Then go to either Hue/Saturation and colorize to your ';dull color'; or go to Brightness and Contrast and darken the background