You see it at professional studios all the time. They take a black and white picture and just add a touch of color somewhere. Since I have yet to tackle Photoshop, I found a way on Picnik.com to do this yourself, for FREE in just a few minutes.

After you have selected the picture you want and uploaded to Picnik and opened it for editing. Oh yea and it needs to be a color picture.

Click on the “Create” tab. On the left will be a lot of different options for you. Click on the “Black & White” option and your picture will become all black and white.

Next click on the brush icon on the left.

Then depending on the area you want to be in color, select your brush size.

In this example I am going to color in the squares in the card that my daughter is holding.

Click on  the area you want “colorized.” You can make the brush bigger and smaller to get all the corners. You can also use the zoom on the bottom right to really get those smaller areas. Once you have clicked on all the area you want in color, head back to the Black & White column on the left and click “Apply”. You can save the image to your Flickr account, computer, facebook and even more places.