Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Desaturate Command

>Converting an Image to Black and White

In This tutorials we discus that how we convert an color photograph in black and white photograph. You can convert full image and also some parts of image. The following procedure is used for this purpose:

Open an image and select that specific part of image which you want to convert in to black and white. if you are going to convert whole image then don't select.

In my this tutorial i am going to convert the whole picture of girl leaving jewelry of the girl in following image.

How we select

you have many option you can use lasso tool or you can select in masking mode. i use masking mode.

For this purpose click on the icon Edit in Quick Masking Mode from tool box.

Learninghints.com

Now select the brush and move over the object (in my case Jewelry) a red mask appear where you paint.

when complete then click on Standard mode icon which is place near the Edit in Quick Masking icon as show in above image.

Now click on Image menu then adjustment and then select Desaturate or press Shift + CTRL+ U key.

Press Ctrl +D key for deselect.

Done.