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
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!
Did you know that in Japan (and in some other countries), the sewer covers have unique designs depending what region and city/town you’re in? I encountered this–or at least, actually noticed this–in the summer the weekend before my classes in Japan began. This was en route to the ?magari Fireworks Festival. Sadly, I never stopped to other sewer covers during my study abroad to compare each one, but I’m glad I got even one picture.
Sewer cover in ?magari, Akita, Japan
At the bottom of the cover, it says ???????and?????which means “?magari” and “sewage,” respectively. Since ?magari is well known for its annual fireworks festival, you can see the carvings of the fireworks coming from the top of the mountain. To the left and right are trees, and running along through the center is a bridge, with water running beneath it. The attention to detail and the significance of the images presented here on this cover astounded me. It was too beautiful to not take a picture.
Pondering what to do for my first visual assignment for this week, I stumbled across Colorize It (3 stars), which prompted me to adjust the colors of a picture I had previously taken. I scrolled through my Japan album and came across this picture once again. I wanted to pop some color to this plain sewer color to really represent the explosion of colors that come from the fireworks.
I used the Photoshop Express app on my phone and used the dynamic filter.
The “dynamic” filter on the Photoshop Express app
The filter added hues of blue and green while accenting the yellow from the original picture. It almost makes the cover look as if it sits atop a grassy mountain than concrete while the bright colors pop out like fireworks. Please enjoy this picture of the colorized version!
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!
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!
This DS106 Assignment asks you to take all of the colour out of a photograph accept for one object or aspect of that photograph. The example given is the little girls’ red coat from “Schindler’s List”
The process of adding a pop of colour or taking colour away from a photograph draws the eye to a certain aspect of the picture and creates a stylised feel to it.
Firstly, I chose the photographs to edit, and I chose two photos that have a colourful subject that would lend itself nicely to doing this type of editing on it.
Both photographs I chose were ones I took myself, on my iPhone.
Then I used the select tool on Adobe Photoshop to select the subject; the rose and the butterfly. Then once the object was selected, I feathered the selection. Then I right-clicked on the selection and selected ‘Layer via Copy’
Then I selected the original background layer and went to adjustments and then ‘Black and White’.
With a few tweaks here and there and I was pretty much done.
Here is the final product:
The red of the rose was a better contrast against the black and white of the rest of the photograph. The butterfly was green on a green background and that made it more difficult to select at the beginning and to get a coherent shape.
Overall I think the rose photo on the right turned out better than the butterfly, as it was more of a clear shape
After gathering evidence about the suspect, Buck had his gun ready as he entered the residence of Crazy Joe Shooter, expecting a full blown shootout. But it never came. Crazy Joe wasn’t there like Buck thought he would be, and the place looked like no one had been living there for weeks. The only thing he noticed that was out of place in this dirty house was a clean letter that had been opened. Buck thought this might be a clue to Crazy Joe’s whereabouts, so he picked up the letter and investigated further.
