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I’ve always had a thing for black and white images where only a certain part or area was colored. This tutorial will show you how to create that effect. I would have done someone’s lips, but I didn’t have a photo with high quality lips lying around, so I’m just using the Bumble Bee and Hibiscus photo again.

The effect is quite easy to achieve. Open your image in Pixelmator (or an equivalent). Duplicate the image layer and de-saturate the new layer. Then change the blending mode to Color. Add a layer mask and fill in the areas you don’t want to be black and white. Add a slight Gaussian blur to your layer mask, and presto!