This was visual assignment 340, Splash the Color.  I used the mac app Color Splash Smart to complete it.  My friends and I were in Cincinnati at a Reds game when this (should be) award winning piece of photography was taken.  This picture does not really have any sentimental value to me other than the fact that I just love it.  This was not too difficult to edit, the only trouble was trying to get the wisps of cotton candy on the bottom left.  I think it turned out pretty well though

This assignment was called Splash the color. It is visual assignment 340.

“Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object”

I chose a picture of my cousin playing in the leaves last fall. It is one of my favorite pictures of him and I really like the idea of using it for this assignment. However, after I started, I regretted it. It was very difficult to edit around the leaves, but I did my best and I think it turned out pretty well. (It is rough in a few places)  Next time I will definitely chose something easier to edit around!

I used GIMP to edit this photo. And I used Eric Jeschke’s tutorial on “Selective Colorization.” This tutorial helped a ton!  The hardest thing was trying to edit around all the leaves!

I took this picture downtown at Capital Ale. The bartender was pouring the beer and I thought it would be cool to see the flow of beer drop down into the glass. I asked the bartender and he was pleased to let me take a photo. I uploaded this into a free version of Photoshop. I learned how to do Color Splash on Photoshop from Youtube. This is the video I watched. It is very simple and easy!

What beautiful flowers growing in the dry sand of the beach. I captured this picture on a stormy day in South Carolina. We were racing against a storm in attempt to see the lighthouse off shore. As thunder rolled in, I could not resist photographing the eerie atmosphere. As we walked down the tattered trail of sand and beach grass, this flower trickled into the path.

I used a app called “photo splash smart” on my Mac for this picture. I actual wrote a tutorial for using this app http://livegraced.com/2012/09/photosplashing-for-macs/ .

I have done a few color splashes in the past, and they have become one of my favorite assignments. I have done a Cinderella slipper, Little Red Riding Hood, and of course my dog. I wasn’t sure what picture I wanted next but started going through my pictures and looking around my room to see if I wanted to take a picture. I finally came across this picture of my boyfriend. He was wearing an all black uniform, and of course lucky pink socks. It made me laugh because it fit s him perfectly. I decided I wanted to highlight his pink socks. When I did these assignments before, I had all kinds of software on my lab computer, but I don’t have this software anymore. I ended up googling “photo editor” and came up with Pixlr. I uploaded my picture, but couldn’t find out how to turn just his socks pink. I ended up trying to use the “bucket” tool. It turned a little more of his leg pink because of shadowing, but I thought it looked really cool, so I kept it! It has sort of a rustic appeal to it (if pink can be rustic) which I think fits perfectly with the somewhat fuzzy picture.

2 stars down, 8 more to go!