Leaving color while making a photo grayscale

I am working on a project and need to make my photos black and white while leaviing certain items of the photo in it's original color. I need to know if someone can help me out and give me some direction on this. An example of what I am trying to do is take a photo of a person and make it black and white while leaving their shirt pink. Any help is appreciated.

I am pretty sure, but not absolutely certain, that it was "Photoshop Elements 2.0 Solutions" by Mikkel Aaland.
If this was the book, and you have it, please let me know if the technique is there.
I know I saw this technique somewhere, and I used it while following along. It was really wild. You are on a layer and you've made a selection. You go to fill, and as soon as you fill it with the color, everything in that color either appears or disappears immediately, based upon the selection you made and the layers.
I have followed along with any number of books, and for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to this (layers and masks, painting and erasing). I just don't understand the concepts involved. So, I can go along, step-by-step and remove color, etc., as I've done on a number of photographs, and very effectively. Yet, I can't just sit down and do it, without the cheat sheets.
That has been one of my biggest complaints with most of these help books. They walk you through methods, step-by-step, but they don't teach you in clear easy to understand lessons, the concepts behind what you are doing. So, a book says, set the radius to this number and the threshold to this, etc., and VOILA, there you have it. Great, but how do I do it on a different photo?

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