Black and White w/ Color

This is a Flower, taken Sept 29th and 6:38 p.m.

Location: Chase's Field

Mode: Auto, Macro, No Flash

BW: To change the photo to black and white,

I first copied the background layer, making a new layer (Layer 1),

 I then selected Layer 1, went to Hue/Saturation and made the saturation -100,

 Lastly I poked the eye out of the background,

 right click and merged the visible layers (Layer1 and Hue/Saturation).

To add some color to the picture, I used the Quick Select tool on Layer 1,

to Select everthing on the flower that I wanted to add color to,

Once I had that selected, I took the Eraser tool,

and erased everything inside the marching ants of the Quick Select tool,

This exposed the background layer which still had it's color.

Once I had the color showing,

 I decied that I wanted to change the color of the flower from purple to pink,

So I took the Quick Select tool and selected all the purple,

Then going to Color Replacement, I used the Eyedropper to get all the color I wanted,

Then went to the Sliders and played with Hue, Saturation, and Lightness, till I got the pink I wanted.

Then to better the picture even more I went to curves and changed Output 255, and Input 224.

At first I thought it was easy to focus on the flower,

but after the changes I made, the flower stands out even more!

I like my edited photo because the colors stand out very nicely against the BW background,

 and with the changes I made with Curves, the colors are more vibrant.

I also think that changing the purple to pink helps,

because pink stands out more to the green than purple does.