I loved this assignment! It ended up correlating really well with my summary of episode 13. The colors the characters wear are very strategically thought out. In the scene I picked from episode 13 was right after Avon and Stringer were looking for a new place to set up shop. Both Stringer and Avon were in a white color which symbolizes they are ‘innocent’ but Avon sister, also D’Angelo’s mom, is wearing bright red. I noticed that the red matched the stop sign, which I kept thinking that she was going to do something to stop D’Angelo from snitching. She ended up going to talk to D’Angelo and tried to get him back in the game.

Process…

This process was fairly straightforward, all I add to do was search how to colorize a black and white photo. When I searched it, I saw that you could do this process through GIMP, which was already installed from earlier. I found a website that was so helpful in doing it. Once I read that, it took me a few minutes to create it. I am pretty impressed with how it turned out (:

So for my first attempt at a visual assignment I decided to do the “Splash the Color” assignment. I couldn’t decide on what I wanted to splash so I looked around my apartment to find some colorful objects. I also looked at all the previous submissions from others and noticed a lot of the same material (cough…flowers) and I wanted to do something a little different.

I first noticed two vibrant towels hanging from the bathroom, one being green and the other orange. I took a picture with my handy dandy picture taker and did some editing in photoshop and….

However, I was not completely satisfied and I was also hungry, so I decided to make some food and take another picture. Bacon and eggs being my favorite breakfast, I took a picture of them while I was cooking and came up with the following image….

Ehhh its ok for what it is…an egg. I personally like the towel, but the more I look at the egg the better it gets. I don’t know you decide.

My inspiration behind choosing this photo was simply picking a cute photo of my baby brother. I took this photo about three years ago and I wanted to see what I could do with it. When I chose this assignment I thought that it would be simple. It was not! I started out with a very complicated photo of some flowers I received. Once I figured out the process to remove color from a photo that dream quickly faded. Although my photo idea changed, this photo still means alot to me. About three years ago, I got a surprise phone call from my dad saying that my step mom was pregnant. I thought that it would be weird being so old and having a baby brother so young but when we met I fell in love with this little guy.

My process started with downloading the photo editing program GIMP. That was the simple part. I opened the program and played with it for about thirty minutes. After that I got down to business. I imported my photo and used the layering feature on GIMP. With the layers process combined with the selection tool, I created a small area to work with. I then used the bucket and paint brush tool to finish up.

The small descriptive paragraph of my steps makes it seem easy, but it is not. It took me two hours to remove color from this photo. With the help of a Youtube tutorial I pushed through it. Although hard and tedious, this was a very fun assignment for me. It is helping me in my personal quest to constantly learn new things.