Editing B&W photos and Layering them?

I do not know if Iphoto can do this and if It can how? My brother in law used his photoshop on his PC and sent a B&W of his kids with yellow flowers in the background (layering). I am under the impression that this is called layering when you can take one color in the picture and bring it out in a black and white photo. So basically does I Photo allow you to do this? THANKS

photofrog:
Welcome to the iView Forum cousin(?): In Photoshop Elements you can do that by selecting those items which you want to remain the same and then de-saturating the remainder of the photo. Or cutting an item out of another photo like a flower and pasting it in the first photo. That creates a layered file in PSE. Here's an example of what you can do with it PSE.
You can't do that with iPhoto. It takes a more powerful image editor. PSE is the little brother to Photoshop, the industry standard, and has about 80% of the capability at aboutg 10% of the price. I saw it on Amazon.com via the MacIntouch site for about $60 last week.
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