There are many different techniques and ways of creating a selective color images in Photoshop, let me show you the one where we use the black & white adjustment layer.
We are going to apply a bunch of Photoshop effects and use a few tricks to turn a photograph of lovely Scarlett into a pencil drawing. It's a bite longer tutorial just be sure to follow it closely and you'll be fine.
A simple Photoshop tutorial, where you may learn how to expose an object by leaving it in color while turning the rest of the photo black and white or sepia.
If you are mostly using only one resample image option when resizing images, then you can change the default option to the option you are using the most.