Masking and Color Emphasis

This is a vine on a tree in my backyard.

This is a brick path in my backyard, shot at a worm's eye view.

The beads and cross belong to a rosary on a statue of St. Francis of Assisi at the St. Michael Church grotto in Wheaton.

Here is another vine with its leaves colorized to add emphasis.

For all four pictures, I used a masking technique in photoshop that allows you to duplicate a picture, desaturate the copy (make it black and white), and then pull color from the original picture into certain selected areas of the black and white version, like with the leaves in the picture above. I then played with the saturation and hue to create the color I desired for my selected objects. This is a great way to add emphasis and movement to your photographs.