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This tutorial demonstrates how to pop colour from monochromatic photographs. You can download the image I am working with Here. Unzip the file and open the image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your start image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
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And from the toolbar, ensure the Foreground and Background colours are set to the default black and white by clicking the following icon. Alternatively, press your D key.
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Then, because we are painting with black, ensure the Foreground colour is set to Black by clicking the following icon.
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From the bottom of the Layers palette, click the following Create new fill or adjustment layer icon.
And from the drop-down list, click Hue/Saturation. In the subsequent Hue/Saturation dialogue box, grab the Saturation slider and move it all the way to the left.
Your image and Layers palette will change to the following, and you will be working with the Hue/Saturation layer (exclusively) for the rest of this lesson.
 
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Activate the Brush Tool, Tutorial. 
Now, (with a hard brush), paint over just the beach huts. Because you are working with a black brush, and are working on the Adjustment Layer, you are painting (back) the beach huts’ colour.
Paint back monochrome
If you colour outside the beach hut. 
Click the following icon to set White as the Foreground colour, and paint back the monochrome.
 
Tips
You will find the painting easier if you zoom into your image. Additionally, as you paint, keep releasing the mouse button, this ensures errors can be quickly undone using Step Backwards or the History Palette. Remember, you need to adjust the brush’s size, in accordance with the area you are working with.
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Still working on the New Adjustment Layer, carefully (and slowly) paint with black to display the colour of the beach huts, and paint with white to bring back the
monochrome - until your image is complete.
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Zoom in and navigate your image, looking for errors, and when you are completely happy with the result , from the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image, then save your work as described here!
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