This might not be the greatest example of “Splash that Color“, but I thought it was a subtle interpretation. It takes a few seconds to to figure out what what is wrong with this photography, which is why I love this. I used Gimp 2.6 photo-editing software to select the can of coke using “free selection tool” . I, then, desaturated the coke can removing the red and black, making the whole can shades of grey. This left the original color of the wood desk enacted.
This is my edited verison:
This assignment was Pick a Bad Photo and Apply a Vintage Effect. This was one of the easier of the assignments, especially after all the other experience I have had with Gimp this week. I chose kind of a boring photo that I took of a bunch of rocks on a beach in California. After changing its contrast and applying the Gaussian blur effect I ended up with an image that I really liked. It wasn’t quite clear what a vintage effect was but I think it looks cool and these days it seems anything is vintage. I really like C.S. Lewis and his quotes and so chose this one. I’m a firm believer that each individual controls their won outcome and this quote stood out to me. My version of Gimp was kind of funny about text so I added the text through Paint.
This assignment was Creep on a Movie Scene. I used to have a poster of this scene in my dorm room and thought it’d be funny to edit myself in to it because of the nature of it and its age. Once again I used Gimp to edit myself in to gray scale as well as copy myself in to the scene.
I guess I’m on a Gimp kick. For this assignment I did the Complete Family assignment. My cousins and I have not been all together in YEARS so I decided to make us one big happy family again. I cut everyone out of their respective photos and merged them all together into one layer. This was one long, intensive process. I was happy I only have 7 cousins, otherwise this would have driven me nuts to have to do more! I was a little disapointed at the quality seeing as it took me so long to do. I guess I did not get close enough with the path tool to each person. I didn’t even realize it until they were on top of each other and the colored background. That’s something I will have to work on.
Take a picture of a common ever day object and manipulate the colors.
This is a 2 star assignment.
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After:
For this picture I included my desk lamp and planner as well at some mini drawers that I keep pens and highlighters and other things in. I feel like having more than one object in this picture makes editing the after image more interesting. After taking a picture on my iPhone I then used this free app called Color Photo Edit (it’s a free app in the app store). Afterwards I then scrolled through the different color schemes and ended up with one called Inverse. I chose this color scheme out of all the different ones to choose from because to me it’s a light and dark kind of change.
Make a photo containing as MUCH color as HUMANLY possible. This should be a photo that in some way captures or embodies joy to you.
This is a 1 star assignment.
For this assignment I took a picture of my quilt on my bed. I took this picture because I like the quilt on my bed because it has a lot of color and pattern in it. For me I like when things are colorful. I think life is boring with out color. I really liked this assignment. I think color helps to define the picture more. I guess this embodies joy to me because I always enjoy going to bed at night.
So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty.
First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band.
Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom of the page.
The last four to five words of the last quote are the title of your first album Lastly, go here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Select the 3rd image. It is the picture for your album cover. Manipulate the picture, resize it, add some other color, whatever. Do the same with the band name and album title, put them over top. However you wanna do it. Make it look cool.
This is a 2 star assignment.
The random Wikipedia page I got was Hunan Cuisine, so that’s what my band is called. My album cover is called Alone in the World. It is from a quote from Henry David Thoreau. The photo I got was called Angry Bunny in the Dark?! This was posted by Thomas (music note next to name).
What I first did was download the photo. It then opened in Windows Live Photo Gallery (my default place for pictures on my computer). I then played with the coloring of the image. The next thing I did was open the drawing in paint to add text to it. I like the few color thing in this because having few colors can represent loneliness. Which seems to be the theme in this abum. I really enjoyed this assignment because it I like how with these 2 random words and 1 random picture can create a story itself.
I really enjoyed this assignment, I’m still getting accustomed to GIMP and how to bend it to my will but I didn’t curse too much in the process. This is a shot of me eating a pretzel which I’m sure was outrageously priced out at Disneyland when I went to visit my Aunt in San Diego with now fiancee. It was well worth the cost in memories and fun.
2/5 stars
Okay, this is my last Visual Assignment. For this one, I decided to change the color of the sky on a picture that I took at the beach. Here is a side-by-side comparison of the two photos.
As much as I like the first one, which is completely un-changed in terms of editing, I really liked changing the yellow to a more blue hue. It makes it feel like there is a flash going off or something is happening other than a sunset. I, once again, used Photoshop Express Editor to change the picture and make the blue more accented. I hope that you like the changes that I made to my photos!
Okay, Photoshop Express Editor definitely gets an A+ from me. My 5th Visual Assignment was to take a picture of a normal everyday object and alter the color. What better thing to take a picture of and change the color than a pumpkin! Here is a side-by-side comparison of the photo that I changed the colors on. Not only did it change the pumpkin to green, it also changed the fall tablecloth leaves green as well!
I hope that you guys like my picture and I definitely hope that you check out Photoshop Express Editor for all of the Visual Assignments that have to do with manipulating pictures. It’s definitely the best website out there so far that I’ve found.
