I have a few brides who want this and I really dont know a good way...help please! =)

What do you mean by color tinting? Like sepia toning? or do you mean making part of the image color and the rest black & white i.e. flowers in color and portrait in b&w

adding color to a black and white photo?

I put the color (using the paint brush) on a separate layer and reduce the opacity of the layer. With the actual paints, the color is always pretty soft, so I would try to mimic that in PS.

If you have lightroom - go to the develop module and play with the split toning tab - you can tint the shadows and/or highlights really easily

if you want to do selective colouring i usually start with a coloured pic and turn into black and white and then history brush back the bits you want to keep colour. BUT DONT DO IT AT 100%!! there is nothing worse than a nice black and white photo ruined by a vivid bunch of red flowers...EWWWWWWW a nice slight colouring is subtle and can work well but a jarring slap you in the face colouring is just nasty.

The best way I have found to do this is either, the way Clare described above, or if you want a more "painted" look... make a black and white image... then on a new layer paint over the area you would like colored at 100%. Then after you have painted over the area you want, change the blending mode for the layer from normal to color, lower the opacity to taste

Hope that helps...

Duplicate the layer. Turn the top layer to Black and white. Then add a layer mask. Paint in the desired colored object with the layer mask. Go to the original layer and reduce the saturation in "hue and saturation". Flatten.

http://digitaltouchup.blogspot.com/2008/04...taltouchup.html

^^ Try that, it's a recent podcast I've done on black and white spot colouring, hope it helps