Separating Color Areas from Black and White Tutorial

This tutorial is to help you learn how to make certain spots color after you have converted a color photo to black and white. Ok, after you have the picture that you want to work on, open it in photoshop:


1) Open a new Channel Mixer adjustment layer then click to check the box that says Monochrome to make the picture black and white.

2) Make sure you have Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer selected in the Layers menu.

3) Click on the Brush Tool (make sure the colors you are working with are black and white).
5) Using the color black, carefully brush over the parts of the picture that you want to be in color, (you may need to adjust brush sizes for the small details). When you do this the parts that you brush should turn back to color.