This one gave me a lot of trouble in all honesty. I really wish I started this one sooner because I kept reselecting images based on their complexity and the colors I wanted to pop. I settled on this handsome noodle because of their striking colors, although separating the colors of the hands from the snake was a challenge. I used my main art program Grafx2 (main usage is for pixel art) to sort the color palette by lightness and hue, then picked out the colors I didn’t want and gray-scaled them. The program is free and is lacking in comparison to other pixel art programs, but I’m quite fond of it myself.
Using the “sort” and “Gray” options to get my color splash
Spiders are capable of a great many things. For example, take Misumena, otherwise known as Flower Crab Spider, is an amazing type of spider that is capable of changing its color to match the flower it is hiding in. It is one of the few spiders in the world with this remarkable ability. Below you can see a picture of one of these spiders hiding on a flower.
Image 1
By using photo editing one can make the crab spider easier to see. Below, the spider, which is now gray, can be seen against the background of the bright orange flower.
This was my first assignment from the assignment bank this week. The prompt was Splash the Color. I choose it because I thought it would be something that would be cool to learn how to do, and as I said in my DreamScape post, I am interested in learning more about photo editing and these assignments are a great excuse to do so. It was very frustrating near the end because there was one button I could not find for a while, which was the add mask layer one. However, in the end, I was quite pleasantly surprised at the result and thought the struggle was worth it.
It was also enjoyable to make because I like spiders and other creatures one can find outdoors. I also think some spiders are unappreciated and that people are often afraid of them, despite the fact that most spiders here in Virginia can’t harm them. I also wanted to share the fact that Flower Crab Spiders can change color because I thought that it was a really cool fact about them.
To accomplish this, I used Adobe Photoshop and copied the image twice to serve as two other layers. I desaturated the second layer and then used color range on the first layer to select some of the shades of orange from the flower. Then I added a color mask and was able to use a pen tool, and using black and white, un-color and color whatever I wanted.
Spiders are capable of a great many things. For example, take Misumena, otherwise known as Flower Crab Spider, is an amazing type of spider that is capable of changing its color to match the flower it is hiding in. It is one of the few spiders in the world with this remarkable ability. Below you can see a picture of one of these spiders hiding on a flower.
Image 1
By using photo editing one can make the crab spider easier to see. Below, the spider, which is now gray, can be seen against the background of the bright orange flower.
This was my second assignment from the assignment bank this week. The prompt was Splash the Color. I choose it because I thought it would be something that would be cool to learn how to do, and as I said in my last post, I am interested in learning more about photo editing and these assignments are a great excuse to do so. It was very frustrating near the end because there was one button I could not find for a while, which was the add mask layer one. However, in the end, I was quite pleasantly surprised at the result and thought the struggle was worth it.
It was also enjoyable to make because I like spiders and other creatures one can find outdoors. I also think some spiders are unappreciated and that people are often afraid of them, despite the fact that most spiders here in Virginia can’t harm them. I also wanted to share the fact that Flower Crab Spiders can change color because I thought that it was a really cool fact about them.
To accomplish this, I used Adobe Photoshop and copied the image twice to serve as two other layers. I desaturated the second layer and then used color range on the first layer to select some of the shades of orange from the flower. Then I added a color mask and was able to use a pen tool, and using black and white, un-color and color whatever I wanted.
For this visual assignment, I created a color splash (three and a half stars). Essentially, the prompt instructed to isolate a color in an otherwise black and white photo. After much scrolling through my phone’s camera roll, I finally found a picture I thought would work well, from a strange figure I saw in a park over the summer.
For this assignment, I used Photoshop. First, I imported the photo. Then, I duplicated the layer and desaturated the original layer (Shift+Command+U). Then I used the lasso tool to outline the pink figure and inverted my selection so that it was selected everything but the figure. Finally, I erased the rest of the selected top layer, leaving only the figure in color.
For this week’s Visual Assignment Bank assignments I chose a 3.5 star assignment entitled, Splash the Color. The assignment asks creator to use color splash, a technique that highlights one main color in a photo, while grey scaling the rest of the image.
I decided to color splash an image of one of the first movie posters advertising The Little Mermaid. *Fun fact: the movie was organically released in November of 1989, in keeping with our course’s theme this semester.*
To complete this assignment I honed in on Ariel’s bright red hair. I choose this object as it has become an iconic feature for Disney’s animated Ariel. It also lies in the center of the poster itself and inevitably catches the eye of the viewer.
This task was much more time consuming than I initially thought it would be. To complete this assignment I used the “Color Splash” App. The app itself is easy to use and has features that allows the creator to be as accurate and precise as possible when selecting what to recolor. However, in retrospect I wonder if using Photoshop and its “lasso tool” would have completed the job just as well at a faster pace.
Overall, I am pleased with the results. Despite taking longer than I hoped, I did have fun creating it!
For this assignment our instructions were to remove all the color from a photo and then restore the color to one object. I decided to use a photo of me in front of a vibrant yellow door because I thought the pop of color from the door would make the contrast more visible. I used photo shop to first lay down a full color image of the photo. I then went in a laid a black and white image perfectly on top of it. I was then able to cut out the door part of the black and white image to have the color part of the door peek through from the color image. I am really happy how it turned out and might even use this photo on my personal instagram to post! Yellow is my favorite color so I like how vibrant it ended up being in contrast with the black and white!
PS: This was a 3.5 star assignment..all done for the week!
? First I’m gonna make it Then I’m gonna break it Till it falls apart Photoshop is faking All the photos that you’re taking For your brittle art ?
Echo, Melody, & the Bunnymen
I put some color back into a photo this week with the Visual Assignment- I’m sorry, what is going on in this music video? I picked a strange one to parody for this post Anyway, as I was neighing- erm, I mean saying, I picked the Assignment, Splash The Color. Details for this Assignment are as follows:
“Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List.
You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software or using mobile apps. The answer lies in the Google.”
There are indeed many ways to edit a photo, but I decided to use my tried and true tool for editing photos- Photoshop.
Well, I’m just chomping at the bit to get started, so here I go-
“Are you just gonna make horse puns the whole time?”
A few days ago, as I was being dragged away from my homework for a mother-daughter lunch break in Downtown Fred, I caught a very opportune sight of a carriage tour trotting past. I was excited to capture the exact moment when the horse stepped into the light. The shadows and road lines made an interesting demarcation between the horse and the person steering him- or so I thought at the time. Sometimes, you look back at your photos and the ones you think are just ‘meh’ end up being the ones you use, whereas the ones you think are great end up being the photos you say ‘neigh’ to. It’s a bit strange, but images can be deceptive depending on what device you are looking at them on.
I ended up going with a side view of the horse and carriage (sans ‘Love and Marriage’), because there were some interesting objects and vivid colors in play. And seeing as how the horse and carriage were already black and white, I couldn’t exactly bring back a splash of color to objects that lacked color. But a bright red car? Ah! Now that’s a horse of a different color (car = horsepower? Get it)? I decided to juxtapose the modern car against the antiquated horse by keeping the car red and desaturating the rest.
I did this by using the magnetic lasso tool to select the car, then I hit ‘Inverse’ in the selection menu. I did a black & white adjustment layer over the selected bits, and upped the levels. I added a violet photo filter and set it to ’20,’ just to give it a little bit of a soft color tone to contrast nicely with the red. I did a harsh s-curve and set the opacity to 40% to really make it pop. (I started with 100% opacity, but had to reign it in).
So did I pull this assignment off? Well, it was a photo race to finish, but I did! Final B&W picture with a splash of color:
I went to Google and searched black and white Breakfast Club photos. I found this photo of Ally Sheedy as the outcast Allison. I placed the image in Photo Image Editor Pixelstyle and decided to add color to her shoulder bag. I zoomed in so I could be as detailed as possible and colored the shoulder bag blue. I hope you enjoy this splash of color from a popular 80s film!
This is a photo of my late boyfriend’s “Drive Safely In Memomry of” sign. I wanted this work to be meaning to me and be like nothing else I had done yet. I used an app to restore color to the flowers around his sign.
Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List.
You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software or using mobile apps. The answer lies in the Google
For this assignment, I decided to go all nature-like and do a color splash with some flowers! I chose the color purple for this particular assignment. Look how well it pops!
I chose this particular assignment from the assignment bank because I enjoy working with photoshop, and graphic tinkering! That, and this assignment posed an interesting challenge! It’s been a while since I’ve done a color splash. I had to look up how to do it!
I chose some purple flowers to make some nods to my ds106 character for this semester, Wisteria. These aren’t wisteria flowers, but the purple flowers and just the pop of purple reminds me of her!
