Creating Striking Black And White Images By Selectively Replacing Color

 Here is a picture of the beautiful Anita Hayes that I transformed into a black and white with a few extras.

Here's how it's done:

Open the image in photoshop then add a hue saturation adjustment layer

Slide the saturation all the way to the left. Note: You can also adjust the lightness darkness to suit your taste.

Choose the brush tool making sure that both the brush tool and the foreground color are set to black.This will allow
the original colors of the image to come back.

Brush in the areas you want the original color to come back. Note: You can adjust the size of the brush using the bracket [] keys on your keyboard.

Here are some other examples:

Chrissy with a grunge background and with selective coloring.

These are from my red hat series for Sweenys

Evelyn

Omara Vasquez

Until the next time, have fun and keep shooting.