Sorry the photos were supposed to be under each description but I added the descriptions first and photos second, not realizng that I couldn't move things around. It figures I finally get the blogger to load my photos instead of Flickr this week... Enjoy!For the photo of the kids, I "hand" colored the photo after making it a b&w. To make turn it from a color photo to a b&w I went to Image > Adjustments > Black & White. This allowed me to have more control over adjusting the reds, yellows, greens, cyans, and blues, which were all sliders in a dialogue box that opened. I was also able to adjust the Tint if I wanted, which appeared that it turned the photo to sepia, but I did not make any adjustments, because as soon as I did the above it automatically turned the photo b&w, and I was happy with the instant results. From there I followed Karen's advice from the discussion board: selected the paint brush tool, Mode:Color and the proceeded to create what you see below. I realize it isn't the prettiest "hand" coloring but I just wanted to play around with the tool, since I have been dying to try it, and never knew how. It was fun, and my oldest daughter loves her purple streaks in her hair :)
For the photo of the view from Robert Frost's summer cabin, I wanted to play around with hue/saturation and color balance. So first I went to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and settled on Hue: -6, Saturation: +54 (can you say POP), Lightness: -4. I then went to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance and after trying different things I ended up with Cyan/Red +14, Magenta/Green +12, and Yellow/Blue +26. Oh yes and I also selected the sky using the magic wand, went to Replace Color and made the sky more like the blue that is in the right hand corner. I only really know it was adjusted because I can now see a sun spot about dead center of the sky. There was to much washout (I think) to turn the sky a real crazy popping blue, or I wasn't doing something right.
3 comments:
your color adjustments on your first photo are incredible - The landscape is so vibrant. Nice job
Lisa:
Awesome job on the photo of the kiddos. That tool really is great fun. Thanks for the tip on making it black and white. It is a very cool way to work with a black and white photo - to colorize. I've seen some great photos where only one object in the photo is colorized. The cabin photo hue change makes a lot of difference. And yes there simply was not enough "blue" information in the photo because the sun washed it out. Too much light and you can lose the color information. And replacing the sky color can be tricky and look fake if you are not careful..I like it the way it is because I want my eyes drawn to the foliage anyway!
Wow the foliage shot looks like a poster ad for the state. Just don't tell the out of staters it is photoshopped. Its amazing the difference this program makes
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