Selective color tutorial...

This is a short tutorial I did last year on another website, really simple way to change your photo.

I am quite sure everyone here knows how to do this, but maybe someone will learn something from this super quick little trick.

This is the original photo taken in Downtown Salt Lake.

From dps

This is the image with the effect applied.

From dps

This is how I did this effect (I have used it in the past for flowers, or things where you would like to see a certain color)

I opened the image in Photoshop elements. I opened the Hue/Saturation panel and took the Saturation to zero (thus making the image black and white.)

I opened the brush tool and on the bottom left corner of the tool bar there is a foreground color, I set both the foreground and background to black. I then ran the brush tool over any part of the picture I wanted in color, thus making the reflection of the pool in color and the lights themselves in black and white.

Such a simple little trick you can do but you can make some really, really awesome photos this way.