How do you make b&w with color in one photo?

[Neeper]

I do not know if this is a beginner's question. Are there any tutorials, on the net, that can help me with this?

Basically, how do you take a color wedding picture... leave the flowers color and make the rest to B&W? Or... a color portrait, leave the eyes blue, the rest b&w. I love how it looks, but have no idea how to do it. Thanks in advance!

[atencati]

My preference is to make a copy of the background layer, change it to B+W (or sepie, monochromatic, whatever) then I erase the areas I want in color. If it's for printing it can be a litle time conuming. You can also try to select the areas o erase with the wand tool.

Andy

[Matt. K]

Another way...click the paintbrush tool and on the top toolbar change mode to colour. Adjust the opacity to suit.

[Matt. K]

Oh! And I forgot to mention...to put the colour back just click on the history brush and brush it back on. Also, play with the brush opacity levels for some beautiful subtle effects.

[Raydar]

There’s many way’s matt & Andy have shown 2.
I know another way to get the same effect, make selection around the flowers or what ever, I use the lasso tool to make a quick selection & then use the quick mask to fine tune.
Then inverse the selection & desaturate.

Cheers
Ray

[petal666]

I like using this process but it can be time consuming depending on how good a job you want to do.