[Kamakiri]

Now here's how it was done:

"The final version was converted to 300dpi CMYK. The examples you see here are "board-safe" and had their quality levels dropped to meet posting requirements.

For you Pshoppers out there, I duped the image and converted to grayscale. Auto-corrected the contrast and copied the layer into the color image .psd file. With the B&W layer on top, I used the Magnetic Lasso for the bulk of the selection and deleted the "gray" selection area resulting in the color one below showing through. There are hundreds of ways to work in Photoshop to achieve the same results. This is just my way but not necesarrily the best though it took less than 30 mins. For tight selections I used the Eraser (anti-aliased) and blew the image up 800% for the fine tuning. There will still be pixelation occuring in the final poster due to the low resolution of the original but I tried my best to make sure the larger size doesn't accentuate errors on my part."