Black and White with Color Highlights

Recently I have been learning a bit more about Photoshop (more specifically, the freeware/open-source photo editor, The GIMP) and I learned how to reclaim some color from a photograph that I made into a B&W.

It's probably one of the oldest techniques known to digital photo editing so I won't go into any details on how to do it but needless to say I'm really happy with the results it produced.


I took this picture of my parent's tomato garden this past weekend and figured that it would be a good picture to help learn how to work with a color masking layer.