How do I make a picture black and white, but the object show in color if using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0?

This question gets asked so often! Okay, here is how you do it and you will not destroy anything to make correcting mistakes impossible.





Open you photo and File %26gt; Duplicate. Close the original. With the the Duplicate, look in the Layer palette. There you will see a half white half black circle, click on it. Or Layer %26gt; New Adjustment Layer. Either way, select the Hue/Saturation as the adjustment layer type.





In the window that pops up, DO NOT have Colorize checked and slide the Saturation slide all the way to the left. It will appear as a black and white. Click OK. In the Layer palette, you will see to layers, the Background layer with the color in the photo showing and the Hue/Saturation layer with a large white rectangle. Click once on the white rectangle.





Your colors at the bottom of the Tool palette should be black and white. Make the black the foreground color. Select the Brush tool set the size of the brush and the hardiness and start painting where you want the color from the Background layer to appear. If you mess up and paint somewhere that you don't want color, switch the color to white and paint over the mess up.





Cool.