Use of Selective Desaturation effect in Photoshop

Learn Photoshop while creating Desaturation effect with this tutorial, written with beginners in mind but great for all skill levels.

Step 1:

Open up your image that you would like to use. I searched my mobile phone gallery and i found this picture-

Step 2:

Duplicate the layer (Ctrl + J) and go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate (Shift+Ctrl+U)

Step 3:

Now we have a black and white picture-

Step 4:

Take out your History Brush tool, and start erasing on your picture. Feel free to zoom in, this will make it a lot easier

Now start erasing the parts on your flower you would like to have in color like the example below

And that’s basicly it. My final result

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