Painting on Black & White

I've always been intrigued by photos that are black and white that have touches of strategic color added to them.  I found this to be extremely easy to achieve.  As mentioned photos need to be black and white, either originally or by converting it to black and white.  Once this is done, a new layer will need to be added changing the name to "Color" to remember that this layer is for altering the colors.

Before

Now on the layers menu, you will need to change the blend mode to color and ensure that the opacity is at 100%.  The mode should also be set to normal.  Now that this has been done you will begin to alter the color of only the area you would like to see color.  On the foreground color picker in the lower left, select the color you wish to use and click okay.  Using the paint brush, color the areas that you wish to change.  This is something you should truly have fun with.  If you should color something accidently, you can remove colors without removing the any aspect of the picture by using the eraser icon.

Once finished, this is what the same photo looked like.

After