: Photoshop picture black and white with colour (Lights) I came across this picture online and I want to try and create something similar. Lights http://mylifeandkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/parents-wrapped-in-lights.jpg

@Cofer715

Another method, other than Alin's, is to use an adjustment layer.


Click on the " Create new fill or adjustment layer" button at the bottom of the layers panel (1) and select Hue/Saturation. This will create the new adjustment layer on top of your existing image.
Slide the saturation slider (2) all the way to the left, to desaturate the image.
Now that your image is black and white, click on the layer mask (3) and use a black paint brush to draw in the areas that you wish to restore color to.




Giving you something like this:



Since you are new to Photoshop and might not know about them, Layer Masks are an incredibly valuable method of "erasing" parts of layers without actually removing the pixels. A layer mask works by showing or hiding parts of an image, based on a grayscale mask (black = hidden) and can be edited in many of the same ways a regular layer can be. It is always a good idea to avoid erasing or deleting anything in Photoshop, if you can. Do this by using things like Smart Objects and Layer Masks.

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@Lengel450

A very easy way to do it in Photoshop is to:


create a new layer over your image
fill it with 100% black
change it's blending mode from normal to saturation (this will make the entire image b&w)
start deleting from the black layer (with eraser, pen, whatever you like) the parts that you want to be in color


What the black layer does is act like a black and white filter. It's a really simple technique, see:

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