Playing with Photoshop: Colour changes...

Top Left to Right: Hue/Saturation, Luminosity, Original image. Bottom left to right: Half tone pattern, Colour Replacement

In our Photoshop seminar, we experimented with ways in which you can manipulate an original image with certain special effects. In the top right corner is the original and as you can see some are more drastically changed than others!

 

In order from left to right we have hue and saturation (this was such a fun one to use purely because I enjoyed seeing the colours of her face, hair and body change through a rainbow spectrum just by moving the bar back and forth... something I'm sure everyone has done at some point in Photoshop, particularly when bored!)

 

Then there was luminosity, which is pretty straight forward - pick a colour from the original and change the entire image to that colour (in my case, it was the electric blue from the dress)

 

Directly below this was an effect called half tone pattern which was effective at creating a subtle grainy texture (probably not very noticeable in the picture) that is almost reminiscent of photos found in Newspapers.

 

And finally we have the colour replacement option, whereby you can depict certain hues of colour from an image and replace it with others. In my example, I subtly changed the tips of the ostrich feathers to compliment the electric blue found in the dress.... almost as if the feathers had a dip-dye!

 

I think the best thing to do when tackling Photoshop is to select an interesting image and just play around with it. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, and make sure you're ON THE RIGHT LAYER!

 

Lots of Love,

 

Lauren xx