How to color in a black and white - confused?

[hank1105]

Ok so I have Photoshop CS and I want to take a color image I have, make it black and white, then bring back certain portion of the image in the original color. Like a black and white of flowers, but having one flower in color. Does anyone have step by step instructions on how to do this? Please bare with my noobness, this has just been really ticking me off for the last 2 hours now. Thanks for any help. The options seem to be crazy with this program.

Hank

[RinkRat]

All I do is create a B&W Layer on top of the color one, and start erasing on the B&W Layer.

Quick & Easy.

[hank1105]

I hate to ask this, but if you could give me exact steps I would appreciate it. I am really sorry for being a pain in the arse. Thanks.

[RinkRat]

I hate to ask this, but if you could give me exact steps I would appreciate it. I am really sorry for being a pain in the arse. Thanks.

Ok, here's the easiest step by step I can come up with...

1. Open your image in Photoshop.
2. In the Layer menu select: Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation
3. When the Hue/Saturation box opens, change the saturation to -100. You now have a new layer that is in black and white.
4. Click on the eraser tool. Now erase over those areas that you want color. If you make a mistake, use the regular brush tool to return that area to black and white.
5. Change the opacity as necessary when you near the edges. The opacity is located at the top of the screen.
6. When you're done select Layer > Flatten Image
7. Save

There are a million different ways to do the same thing, but this is the quickest.

-RinkRat

[redbutt]

Does anyone have step by step instructions on how to do this? k

Another option is to mask off all the areas that you want to stay in color using any one of the lasso tools, then invert the mask selection, and use the Hue/Saturation to make it B/W.

[Goofup]

As you can see there's several ways to do it. My favorite is to create two layers. The middle one you desaturate to get your B/W, the top one you erase everthing except what you want colored. It's a little more work, but that way you can make adjustments in color, contrast, etc. to each separately.

[hank1105]

Thanks for the replies. The picture I was trying to do this with really didn't work out that well, a good amount of brown in the picture. I tried a more colorful picture and it seemed to do the trick. Although I get some weird results, but I guess that is mind playing tricks on me. Thank you for the instructions and all of the help.

Hank