Photoshop: Selectively colouring a photograph using the History Brush

A simple technique and one of many that can be used to knock out the colour in a picture and then put it back selectively to increase the impact.

Start with a picture that you want to use. The usual rules apply – don’t work with originals unless you are very good, work with a copy so the original is always there for you to go back to in the case of a disaster.

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