Combining color and grayscale
August 4th, 2013
This will teach how to select which parts of a photo you want to remain in color after you change it to black and white.
Objective
Original

Finished result

Tutorial
- Copy and paste the image of your choice onto a new canvas.
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Duplicate the layer your image is on. (Ctrl+J or right click the layer and select “Duplicate Layer”.)
To make things easier to follow. I’ve named the original as color, and the duplicate as bw.
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Select layer bw and Desaturate it. (Ctrl+Shift+U or go to Image >> Adjust >> Desaturate.)
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Select the Polygonal Lasso
. If you don’t see it, hold down the Lasso tool for more options.
Make a selection around what you want to be in color.
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Hit Delete on your keyboard, so that the color part shows through.
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Continue doing this to as many parts as you want, and that’s it!
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