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How to make one part of a photo in color

You've most likely seen a trend lately where photos are displayed in black and white with only one part of it seen in color. Take the example below for instance where the wedding photo has been changed fully to black and white. Then the flowers were re colored using Adobe Photoshop.

How do you do this?

Well firstly you need to make your photo black and white. A quick way to do this is to open your image in Photoshop and click along the top toolbar on image / adjustments / desaturate. Here is an example of one I did earlier:

Now to re color, you simply choose the history brush tool and brush over the part of the image you want to color.

Depending on the size of your photo you might need to also adjust the size of your brush:

Here is the final result after I've colored one part of my photo which of course in this case is the bush at the front.

In this tutorial below Scott Kelby visibly demonstrates how to selectively color a photograph using Photoshop.

To start the Photoshop tutorial press the go arrow.