I decided to play around a bit with Lightroom 2 and its new brush for local adjustments. This is from the Tin Toy exhibit in Japan and I tried to make the background toys b&w. [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
nice work, every once in awhile we'll get one of these selective color/desaturated background things going on here, it's nice to see it again