Selective coloring.
I wrote this little guide so that when you are making banners and other graphics you can used this tiny technique. This is as easy, maybe easier, as making a blog so it is for all skill levels. Basically this guide will show you how to turn your image into and image that is mostly grey with one feature of the image being colored fully. To see an example click on the image below:
To start, get your image. I know that I am starting to sound repetitive but this tutorial works for all graphics whether anime, neopets or a drawing. Copy it once into paint and once into Microsoft word or another word editing program. On the image in Word find a way to turn it into a grayscale image or black and white depending on what you want it to look like later.
I personally prefer grayscale to other changes but it is up to you and what you want to do.
This is really simple fro here on it, copy the new Grey image into paint and put it below or beside the colored on but don't have it overlapping. Time to get out the trusty rubber and have some fun. Now your two images should be exactly the same, besides the minor issues of having an all grey one and a colored one. With a small rubber, maybe the smallest or second smallest which I prefer, just so I can see what I am doing, and rub out all along the outline, on the inside of the outline I should say before I get in trouble, of what you want to be colored. 
Now it should be looking a little bit silly which we are going to make worse by rubbing out ALL of the inside of your outline! I do have an example which you can view here of me doing this step whilst writing this guide for you.
Guess what we are going to do next?
Yep, if you guessed we were going to put them together you were right! Pick your selection tool and make sure that the bottom option is picked underneath so that when we put it together you can see though the bit you rubbed out! If you are not sure what I am talking about so back to my last example and look to the far left of it, see how there is a set of shapes in a picture and one box has a darker grey outline around it? If you look carefully a cube has a white outline around it in that picture. This is bad. Click on the other image where there is no white so that the dark grey box moves to that one. Select your Grey image and move it over so it is exactly over your other image. Now it will look like my first image I showed you!
This is basically it. This is the time to add text and other things if you want to make your image better. If you have any questions email me at tini_999@bigpond.net.au or PM Dratini on the forums!
~Tori