This is the city – dark, gray, shadows and light – and the sky, like a sci-fi nuclear explosion of easter egg colors. It was the colors of the sunrise that caught my attention. My iPhone didn’t do them justice, but it never does. I thought I’d try the Splash the Color assignment on it, as if I haven’t done that one seven times already. I think it’s too much color, but it was worth the experiment.

I duplicated the background layer and cut out the sky so that I could address the two parts separately. I played with the levels setting in Photoshop to get that high-contrast, Sin City look below the horizon. I used the same tool on separate color channels to distort the sky color, Then I flattened the image and sized it to the 640 pixel width seen above.

Visual Assignment:

Splash The Color

I decided to do this assignment because I knew this one picture would be perfect for it. I went to Disney for New Years (2015) and I got these glow in the dark Minnie ears. I think they are one of the best things I ever bought.

So for this photo I uploaded it to Ribbet and was able to manipulate the photo into only giving the bow color.

A lot of people have been noticing color in The Wire, so it’s a natural for the Splash the Color assignment. Here, I took one of the shots inside the Can Office with the orange target on the floor. I wanted to keep the orange and make the rest black and white. I did this by selecting the orange parts of the floor with the Polygonal Select tool (which I seem to use for just about everything) in Photoshop. This was a little tedious and you can see I missed a spot towards the back. Then I used the Select->Inverse function to change my selection to the rest of the picture – the part I wanted to be gray scale. To make it gray scale, I use the Image->Adjustments->Desaturate function. Saturation refers to the color intensity. No saturation = gray.

The picture is really designed to be in color, and it shows in the grayscale version. Everything is dark and indistinct, because the color hues gave the picture its life, rather than the light and dark values. Draining the color also makes the scene much colder. The earth tones added warmth.

The assignment was pretty straight forward. I took a picture that I absolutely adore of my girlfriend and used it for this assignment. You can take any photo you’d like, and using an app( I used color effects) it’ll transform your photo into a greyscale picture. From there I picked her beanie and colored in the greyish purple color that it originally was to contrast with the rest of the picture. Splash of color is meant for a specific detail to pop, not everything. While my coloring was vibrant and brings notice to her hat it also allow people to notice to her eyes. Or maybe another aspect they would not have noticed before.

Color Splash Assignment 

I love doing this all the time, therefore I wanted to do this as a visual assignment! I chose a picture that is near and dear to me of my godson when I gave him yet another present, i spoil him so much, this one was a green monkey pillow pet (well we think its a monkey) and he will not let it go to this day and I think it is so precious!

This assignment was pretty simple, other than the minor difficulty of finding a proper application to use for this color splash. I ended up finding an app on my iPhone with a similar name, but it was called Color Effects. I chose to use a Stop Sign as my picture, because of the simplicity and dominating red color it usually has.

This is before the color effects:

And this was after (I do not know why there are huge black spaces above and below the photo so I apologize for that):

I thought this assignment was pretty fun, as I got to experiment and play around with the app I used, although it was annoying to use because of the amount ads that kept popping up, but granted, it is a free app. This assignment was three stars, and the second one contributing towards my total of eight.

Going through the different assignments the title Splash That Color really caught my attention. I really enjoyed doing this assignment, it was by far the most fun I have had. Going into it, there was a little struggle trying to figure out what picture I wanted to use. However, after thinking for a little bit I decided to take a picture that was taken for my Senior Photos. I chose a picture of my basketball shoes and a basketball. There is nothing complex about the picture, but it will allow me to use bright colors to complete this assignment.

During my senior year of high school, our basketball team finished the season with the best school record in the history of the school. It was a great year, it a lot of amazing memories. But the one thing that I will never forget are the shoes I wore during that season. At the end of my Junior year, I knew that I wanted these shoes for next season and so I waited and save up the money to get them. Finally, during the first week of practice of my last year I was able to buy them. They were without a doubt my favorite basketball shoes ever and they still are today. I would still wear them today, unfortunately they do not fit anymore. Those shoes remind me of all the great games we play and memories I shared with my teammates that year.

The process to creating this was tricky at first, but once I found the right software to use, it was easy and very fun to make this picture. I used the app  ColorSplash in order to create this picture. All I did was to take the picture I wanted and upload it to the computer then I took the picture and put it through the app. The tricky part was trying to find the right color that matches my shows, because it is not just a regular green. I changed the shading of the color and was able to find the perfect match. After finding the right color, it was just basically painting the object you wanted to have color and that was it. This assignment was really enjoyable for me and allowed me to take a simple picture and add some creativeness to it.