Sebastian with selective color

Sebastian's birthday is coming up and I very spontaneously got him to grab his book and come outside with me for a picture so I could use it on his invitations.  Sebastian hates taking pictures, but the Horton Hears a Who movie excites him, his birthday excites hims too, so he was very cooperative - we are going to see the movie for his party.

So I'm going to go through the steps I used to get this selective coloring - and how I did it in just a few minutes

I made a copy of the original picture and converted it to black and white.  I also burned the edges since the focus is all on him and the book. To "burn" the edges: grab the burn tool, I use a pretty big brush and start going around the picture, then go a second time in the corners or where ever I want it darker.   So now I've got the black and white picture done, I select all and copy the b&w version, then I clicked on the color version and pasted the b&w version onto the original, if I look over in my layers palette I can see the new layer. Be sure to be focused on the top layer, the b&w layer in the layers palette.  Next I grabbed the quick selection tool, and selected just the book.  It did a good job of selecting the book, I only had to hit alt and deselect a small area of his hand.  Next I deleted the area I had  selected by hitting command x (that would be control x on a pc) and there you have it. Done.