In this post, I combine several of tools and techniques to achieve a desired result.
First, the image taken with my D200 was brought into Lightroom for general RAW adjustments. The image was then converted to B&W using the Nik Software Silver Efex Pro tool by applying the Kodak Tri-X Film Type preset. At this point, the image looked great in B&W.
After looking at the image a while, I felt it needed something more, so given I have wanted to try taking a B&W image and add some localized color to it, I figured this would be a good photograph to do the test on.
To add the localized color, I started by using the OnOne software's Mask Pro. This did a decent job at maksing off the image, but being the first time I had used Mask Pro, there were similar colors in the backgroud that I did not properly select so I ended up reverting to Photoshop to erase the small number of unwanted image areas.
When I first completed the image, using the exact colors from the original image, the purples were very strong. I decided to go back to Photoshop and set the opacity of the layer down to 40% which I feel much better aligns with the tonal ranges of the B&W image.
Tri-X Flower with a splash of color 2, originally uploaded by dblphotography.
Here is the original attempt:
