Don’t you love selectively colored black and white photographs? They are a super way to emphasize the subject of your image.  Plus, people think you spent hours working on them!  But this article will show you how to create selective color easily using Adobe Lightroom.

And, honestly, I probably would have spent at least one hour creating this image if I were using Photoshop.  But Lightroom is a different story.  It took me all of 30 seconds!

How to create selective color in Lightroom:

• In Lightroom’s Develop Panel, scroll down to the HSL/Color/Grayscale section.
• Select Saturation from the HSL tab.
• Take the saturation down to -100 for all colors.
• Click on the Targeted Adjustment Tool, which is on the left side of this panel.
• Click and drag up on the part of the image that you want to colorize.
• If color appeared in areas where you didn’t want it, click on the Saturation Adjustment Brush.  Reduce saturation to -100 and brush over areas that should be B&W.  Make sure that Auto Mask is checked, and you are good to go!

Don’t have Lightroom yet? I can’t recommend it highly enough!  It has drastically shortened my workflow time when processing photos.

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