Colour changing

Hi all. I'm new to photo editing so please be nice to me as I will probably ask questions that have been covered a 1000 times.
I'm slowly learning how to use Elements 11 but can't work out how to pick out an item either in colour or black and white. An example would be picking out the red colour of a post box whilst everything else is in b&w or the opposite of this. I've looked online and at loads of YouTube videos but can't find what I need
If anyone out there can help I would be very grateful.

You can also do it manually.
You need to duplicate your color photo.
1. Open your color photo in Expert Mode (A raw photo will open in camera raw to click the open image button too send it to the PSE interface)
2. On the Top menu click Layer >>Duplicate Layer >>OK
3. On the top menu click Enhance >>Convert to Black & White >>OK
4. If you can’t see the layers pallet to the right click Window >>Layers
5. At the bottom of the layers pallet click add layer mask (the icon with a small circle)
6. Make sure your foreground color is set to black then select the brush tool
7. Click the mouse over the area where you wish to reveal color and use like an eraser to reveal the background below
8. To correct errors switch the foreground color to white, then switch back to black and continue
9. Save as PSD to preserve your layers and if you wish make a jpeg copy from the PSD file using File >> Save As
N.B. if your brush is too big or too small you can use the square bracket keys to adjust the size up or down.
The smart brush tool has black & white options but it does involve making selections which can be more tricky than using the ordinary brush.

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