Color | GIMP Tutorials

Selective Colorization – Color in a Black and White Image

Open the full-color version of the image you wish to transform.

Select Visible.

Layer -> New Layer. Set it to Transparency.

Edit -> Paste Into.

Anchor the pasted image onto the new Layer.

Colors -> Desaturate.

Basically what you’ve done is created a Black and White version of the image on a clear transparency above the color version.

Then use the eraser [...]