Creating color focus on eyes in a portrait

…This is a photograph of Emily.…And Emily has these bright, vivid blue eyes.…This is the color as it appeared straight out of the camera.…It hasn't been modified at all.…What I want to do with this photograph is…I want to create this color splash effect where…we're highlighting the color that we have here in the eyes, and also, on the flower.…And in this movie we'll look at how we can do so by combining…a few different techniques together which involve…making some selections and creating a mask…so that we have certain areas in color and the rest of the image in black and white.…

Well here, let's begin by creating an adjustment layer…which will convert the entire image to black and white.…To do so, we'll navigate to the adjustments panel, and…here we'll click on the black and white adjustment layer icon.…The great thing about creating black and white images with this adjustment is it…allows us to change the brightness or…darkness of different areas of the photograph.…For the skin tones, we can brighten…those up by increasing the reds there and the yellows,…