Photoshop How to: Black/white background, colored foreground?

I have just now started working with photoshop and need some additional help. I have found a picture online that I find really amazing and would like to try something similar.

It's a black and white background with a colored centerpiece, like this one: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3704202

Anybody can help me as to how to do that with my own picture(s)?

Photoshop How to: Black/white background, colored foreground?mcaffee

you will find that the link i'm about to give tells you how to do this, and in a method which is alot smoother than trying to 'lasso' an object which is quite a crude tool:

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/...

Photoshop How to: Black/white background, colored foreground?norton antivirus 2007

start with a color picture

select the part you want to stay color with the lasso tool

under selection, select inverse

change the mode to gray scale
i will take your link as example,1st select the horse by using pen tool or lasso tool,then copy it (control+c) and past it (control+v),go back to your background and make it gray.