Switch up the Mood
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Color, lighting, saturation, contrast, and many other factors all play in to taking a decent photo and making it fabulous. This assignment is to change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. You do not have to change all of those things about the photo, but you can if you would like to. Experiment. Don't be afraid to take it to the extremes, and don't be afraid to be subtle. Familiarize yourself with your editing software, whether it's Photoshop, GIMP, Picnik, or any number of other editing platforms. Most of all, enjoy what you are doing!
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Submissions So Far
Picture Glow Up
For this assignment, I found it relatively easy as on this day it was a quite typical gloomy Winter day. I also happened to snap a photo of the day outside due to a photoblitz assignment. With adobe lightroom, I transformed my gloomy day into a brighter fall day by …
Day and Night
For my last assignment of the week, I’m choosing the two star assignment, “Switch Up the Mood” It will finish the week off for me with 12.5 stars!
Here’s the photo I started with. It’s a picture of my dad and I playing a paddle game on the beach a …
Saturated Sunset
For my last assignment, I chose a two star photo editing assignment that said we needed to switch up the mood of a picture. For this assignment I used a free photo editing software to adjust certain aspect of the first image to change the mood. I played with contrast, …
Uncanny
Challenge: Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
When I found this challenge, I immediately thought of a photo I have of Notre Dame in Paris. I had created art in the style of Andy Warhol with this image before …
Sh-Sh-Sh-Shake it Up
For my final visual assignment I chose Switch Up The Mood, worth 2 stars.
Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. You do not have to change all of those things about the photo, but you can if you …
Switch it up
For this visual assignment you had to use Photoshop to change the hue, saturation, lighting, and contrast to edit/change a photo’s feel. I used a photo I had taken over the summer of a dock in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Before:
After:
I played around with the photo in Photoshop …
Switch Up The Mood
Assignment may be found here: https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/switch-up-the-mood/
At times, Sterling’s life seems bright and filled with opportunity until a depressing moment appears and places new obstacles in the road ahead, feeling cold and bitter.…
Mood Switcher
This post is a visual assignment for the week of 1-26 to 2-1 and is worth 2 points.
I chose to complete this assignment because it will give me a chance to flex my editing skills.
The photo I am working with comes from the sample photos that came with …
Not quite what it seems
I thought about this visual assignment for a little while. I knew I wanted to capture something with a good amount of color to manipulate and play with. When I saw this painting, I immediately knew that it was what I wanted to use for this project. As …
Stepping Stone Mood Swing
They are all just so moody! Now before you judge, the bottom left is to original. I felt it need to be included. I’m not telling my secrets on how I did what. I’m sure you can guess. I’m partial to the one on the bottom right. I really …
George’s New Look**
This quick and easy visual assignment, Switch Up the Mood, allowed me to spruce up Curious George’s profile picture for his dating site. I used Picasa to edit the photo and take from this:
To this:
Since it’s a cartoon picture, there wasn’t as much I could have …
Switch Up The Mood
Switch Up The Mood (2 stars)
“Color, lighting, saturation, contrast, and many other factors all play in to taking a decent photo and making it fabulous. This assignment is to change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. You do not …
Switching the Mood
This was a tough assignment. We were supposed to edit a picture to change the mood of the photo. Here’s my attempt.
The one on the right was the before picture. To change the photo, I messed around with the contrast, hue, etc. I’m not really sure how I …
Austin during spring!
I edited a couple of pictures that I took in spring. I changed the mood of these pictures by altering the hue and brightness. This visual assignment represents two different seasons, spring and autumn.…
An Attempt to Darken the Mood
Switch up the Mood
Although we read left-to-right, suspend reality for a second. The picture on the right is the original, and I used GIMP to darken things up a bit, using mostly the Brightness-Contrast and Hue-Saturation tools. Here is the finished product! It looks overcast, although, its hard to…
One for One
Today I was inspired to go the day without shoes to raise awareness and money for Toms. Toms is a company that would match every pair of shoes purchased with a pair of new shoes given to a child in need. One for One. Today April 10, 2012 Jacksonville State…
Turn down the lights- switch up the mood
Mr eggy CC licensed by sultoner
Train CCl licensed by ELEOTH
The Assignment
I did the Switch up the Mood visual assignment. The details are:
This assignment is to change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
I decided to use…
More RAW Photography
Here is a RAW photo I edited of my girlfriend, Alanna; using Photoshop Elements 8. I was going for an HDR feel without actually using HDR software; boosting the saturation and noise levels. Also, increasing the shadow levels helped to give the photo some extra depth. Overall, I’m happy the…
Switch up the Mood
This is for the assignment Switch up the Mood
i got to mess around with iphoto and it was cool seeing what i could get with the tools that they provided def a cool experience for someone who doesnt typically or ever use photoshop. for this picture when i used…
Lasagna Attack
Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
I decided to use Picasa photo editor by Google to manipulate the photo for this assignment. Picasa is great because it is Google style user friendly and offers a plethora of options and…
A Blue Ocean — Switch up the Mood
This photo is for the Visual Assignments, “Swith Up the Mood.”
blue ocean
I used GIMP to create this photo. I took the original picture on the beautiful beach in a tropical island. I changed the brightness, contrast and color balance by using GIMP’s filter functions. But I do not…
Moody ds106
Today I chose this DS106 assignment, which requires us to
change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
I enjoyed working with Gimp, and feel for the first time that I used it rather successfully (it’s about time!)
Below is the…
A Predator’s View of Monticello
I started playing with Annie Belle‘s “Switch Up the Mood” assignment on this image of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello I took this past Summer which, unfortunately, is rather predictable and unremarkable unlike the house.
So I wanted to play with some settings to change the mood, I adjusted the hue, saturation,…
Create an Assignment #3: VisualAssignment348
This is the second assignment I have created for DS106. This assignment is a Visual Assignment called “Switch Up the Mood.” To objective of this assignment is to use any photo editing tool to drastically after the mood or tone of an image. When you have done this, be sure…
Picture Glow Up
For this assignment, I found it relatively easy as on this day it was a quite typical gloomy Winter day. I also happened to snap a photo of the day outside due to a photoblitz assignment. With adobe lightroom, I transformed my gloomy day into a brighter fall day by …
Day and Night
For my last assignment of the week, I’m choosing the two star assignment, “Switch Up the Mood” It will finish the week off for me with 12.5 stars!
Here’s the photo I started with. It’s a picture of my dad and I playing a paddle game on the beach a …
Saturated Sunset
For my last assignment, I chose a two star photo editing assignment that said we needed to switch up the mood of a picture. For this assignment I used a free photo editing software to adjust certain aspect of the first image to change the mood. I played with contrast, …
Uncanny
Challenge: Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
When I found this challenge, I immediately thought of a photo I have of Notre Dame in Paris. I had created art in the style of Andy Warhol with this image before …
Sh-Sh-Sh-Shake it Up
For my final visual assignment I chose Switch Up The Mood, worth 2 stars.
Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. You do not have to change all of those things about the photo, but you can if you …
Switch it up
For this visual assignment you had to use Photoshop to change the hue, saturation, lighting, and contrast to edit/change a photo’s feel. I used a photo I had taken over the summer of a dock in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Before:
After:
I played around with the photo in Photoshop …
Switch Up The Mood
Assignment may be found here: https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/switch-up-the-mood/
At times, Sterling’s life seems bright and filled with opportunity until a depressing moment appears and places new obstacles in the road ahead, feeling cold and bitter.…
Mood Switcher
This post is a visual assignment for the week of 1-26 to 2-1 and is worth 2 points.
I chose to complete this assignment because it will give me a chance to flex my editing skills.
The photo I am working with comes from the sample photos that came with …
Not quite what it seems
I thought about this visual assignment for a little while. I knew I wanted to capture something with a good amount of color to manipulate and play with. When I saw this painting, I immediately knew that it was what I wanted to use for this project. As …
Stepping Stone Mood Swing
They are all just so moody! Now before you judge, the bottom left is to original. I felt it need to be included. I’m not telling my secrets on how I did what. I’m sure you can guess. I’m partial to the one on the bottom right. I really …
George’s New Look**
This quick and easy visual assignment, Switch Up the Mood, allowed me to spruce up Curious George’s profile picture for his dating site. I used Picasa to edit the photo and take from this:
To this:
Since it’s a cartoon picture, there wasn’t as much I could have …
Switch Up The Mood
Switch Up The Mood (2 stars)
“Color, lighting, saturation, contrast, and many other factors all play in to taking a decent photo and making it fabulous. This assignment is to change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. You do not …
Switching the Mood
This was a tough assignment. We were supposed to edit a picture to change the mood of the photo. Here’s my attempt.
The one on the right was the before picture. To change the photo, I messed around with the contrast, hue, etc. I’m not really sure how I …
Austin during spring!
I edited a couple of pictures that I took in spring. I changed the mood of these pictures by altering the hue and brightness. This visual assignment represents two different seasons, spring and autumn.…
An Attempt to Darken the Mood
Switch up the Mood
Although we read left-to-right, suspend reality for a second. The picture on the right is the original, and I used GIMP to darken things up a bit, using mostly the Brightness-Contrast and Hue-Saturation tools. Here is the finished product! It looks overcast, although, its hard to…
One for One
Today I was inspired to go the day without shoes to raise awareness and money for Toms. Toms is a company that would match every pair of shoes purchased with a pair of new shoes given to a child in need. One for One. Today April 10, 2012 Jacksonville State…
Turn down the lights- switch up the mood
Mr eggy CC licensed by sultoner
Train CCl licensed by ELEOTH
The Assignment
I did the Switch up the Mood visual assignment. The details are:
This assignment is to change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
I decided to use…
More RAW Photography
Here is a RAW photo I edited of my girlfriend, Alanna; using Photoshop Elements 8. I was going for an HDR feel without actually using HDR software; boosting the saturation and noise levels. Also, increasing the shadow levels helped to give the photo some extra depth. Overall, I’m happy the…
Switch up the Mood
This is for the assignment Switch up the Mood
i got to mess around with iphoto and it was cool seeing what i could get with the tools that they provided def a cool experience for someone who doesnt typically or ever use photoshop. for this picture when i used…
Lasagna Attack
Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
I decided to use Picasa photo editor by Google to manipulate the photo for this assignment. Picasa is great because it is Google style user friendly and offers a plethora of options and…
A Blue Ocean — Switch up the Mood
This photo is for the Visual Assignments, “Swith Up the Mood.”
blue ocean
I used GIMP to create this photo. I took the original picture on the beautiful beach in a tropical island. I changed the brightness, contrast and color balance by using GIMP’s filter functions. But I do not…
Moody ds106
Today I chose this DS106 assignment, which requires us to
change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc.
I enjoyed working with Gimp, and feel for the first time that I used it rather successfully (it’s about time!)
Below is the…
A Predator’s View of Monticello
I started playing with Annie Belle‘s “Switch Up the Mood” assignment on this image of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello I took this past Summer which, unfortunately, is rather predictable and unremarkable unlike the house.
So I wanted to play with some settings to change the mood, I adjusted the hue, saturation,…
Create an Assignment #3: VisualAssignment348
This is the second assignment I have created for DS106. This assignment is a Visual Assignment called “Switch Up the Mood.” To objective of this assignment is to use any photo editing tool to drastically after the mood or tone of an image. When you have done this, be sure…
Help Someone Else Do this Assignment
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Tutorials So Far
For my final visual assignment I chose Switch Up The Mood, worth 2 stars.
Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. You do not have to change all of those things about the photo, but you can if you …
Here is how to switch up the mood…
Here is a quick and easy way to complete the Switch Up The Mood visual assignment! I used an existing photo I had saved onto my computer just to use as an example, but use any picture you already have or take …
Taking another stab at visual assignments, I opted for Switch up the Mood, mostly because I had a few photographs that I had taken with a colleague’s top-shelf digital SLR camera the other day. Consequently, shooting in RAW format, I … Continue reading →…