How to Do Selective Coloring in Photoshop

Sure its actually really easy to do, Just time consuming.

Start by opening your image in photoshop.

1. First thing you want to do, is make any color enhancements that you want to. I like to brighten my colors because well they tend to wash out easy.

2. You need to make your image black and white. I do this by opening a new Layer, clicking Adjustment Layers and opening Hue and Saturation. Bring the saturation all the way down, or to the left. Your image will now have 1 layer and be black and white.

3. To bring back color you use the eraser. Sounds kinda funny, but you do. Click on your eraser, the actual eraser tool not background eraser or any other eraser options. When you hover it will say eraser tool.

4. Erase the black and white ONLY from the things you want in color. Like i do my sons eyes. To make this easier i zoom way in and make my eraser rather small to try and NOT erase the b&w from the other parts of the image. Don't worry if you miss some, there is a fix.

5. Do all of the parts of the image that you want in color again, don't worry about misses till you are all the way done tweaking.

Now to fix any goofs, its very time consuming, which is why i zoom way in, i try not to make any mistakes.

1. Click on the lasso tool, second spot in the control panel from the top on the left side. It looks like a lasso. This tool allows you to draw any shape, but its a selection tool. So you draw around the goof ups. Which in turn highlights them.

2. Open up Hue and Saturation again and bring the saturation back down to 0, all the way to the left. Making that part of the image in b&w again.

Work in small areas, don't try to fix all of the goofs at once. Just do them bit by bit. Zoom in as far as you can, even pixelating the image some to get as close as you can work while being clear.

Now i like to save my images as a small copy and a large copy, small to upload to the Internet and large can be printed. But that's my preference, and make sure you donut save over your original image. Ive done that and been very grumpy with myself.

Happy editing!