Ok so im Posting a few images to share one of my favorite Techniques. Color Accentuation. I truly love takeing black and white images and playing with color- i find it really simple to do and sometimes it adds just the right touch and interest to an image that will make it appeal more then the average image
There are many ways to do this but this is one of the easiest and fastes ways that i have found.
Step 1- Open your image of your choice and once open double click the background layer , a window will pop up and just hit ok to unlock it.
Step 2- Now click and drag layer to the square icon on the bottom right of the layers menu to duplicate your layer.
Step 3- Select the new layer, go to image/adjustments/hue saturation and completely desaturated so that the image is now black and white.
Step 4- Now simply just erase the parts on the black and white layer that you want in color.
NOW THIS IS ONE METHOD BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY WHERE YOU WOULD MASK THE DUPLICATE LAYER AND USE THE PAINT BRUSH TO TAKE AWAY AND ADD COLOR. THIS METHOD YOU WOULD PAINT AWAY THE BLACK AND WHITE TO REVEAL THE COLOR BUT IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE YOU PUSH “X” (SHORTCUT) OR CHANGE PAINT COLOR TO WHITE AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PAINT BACK THE COLOR.
HERE IS A VIDEO TUTORIAL-
