A few days ago I read a question by GabyVaughan in the conversation thread...she asked bloemday how to do a pop of color in a b&w image...I figured I'd do a little tutorial for this...here you go...

I used my RECord store poster as an example.  There are different ways to do this but this is the easiest...

1. Open an image (in color) in photoshop and duplicate the background layer.


2. Select the background copy layer and convert it into b&w: Enhance -> Convert to Black and White.


3. Now you want to reveal the color from your underlying layer (background layer). To do this you need to activate the b&w layer.  Select a hard eraser with 100% opacity and go over the areas where you want to reveal the color. 


4. You can also reveal the color using the magic wand or another selection tool.  Select the area where you want to reveal color and then press delete on your keyboard. And that's it. 

Depending on the complexity of your image you can use the eraser or a selection tool...whatever works best for you.

In photoshop CS5 you can use the history brush to get this result.  Just convert your image to b&w and use the history brush to reveal the color again.

That's it.

Thanks for reading!