Selective Color

This is an easy piece I made by using a technique to achieve selective color. Most people always make the background desaturated while keeping the subject saturated. I wanted to go out of the box by making the subject desaturated forcing the eye to be drawn to the out of focus background which draws the eye back towards the desatuated flowers.  Some choose to go about this using Color Range, Fuzziness, Range, Etc. but this way is far easier. The only adjustment you need a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer with a Layer mask of the area. The layer mask can be achieved by using the Quick Selection Tool while painting over the missed parts with the brush tool. This creates much better results than other methods. Although, the desaturation wasn't the only adjustment I made. I also added a Curves Layer in order to correct the background color along with a layer technique involving setting one white and one black layer on certain blending modes in order to increase shadows and highlights.