Color Splash Effect

A neat editing effect is a Color Splash Effect which calls for a desaturation of color from an image and leaves only one small amount or section remaining. This can produce an interesting focus on a part of the image and a striking change from black and white to color.


NATIONAL CONTENT STANDARDS (2007):

1. Creativity and Innovation

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative

products and processes using technology. Students:

a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.

6. Digital Citizenship

Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and

practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:

a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and

technology.

b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration,

learning, and productivity.

c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.


OBJECTIVE:

  • The Student will remove an object from background Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended tools.


LEARNING TARGETS:

  • I can void all but one color using Layer Masks in Adobe Photoshop CC.


DIRECTIONS:

  1. Watch the following YouTube video posted below
  2. Open Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended
  3. File>Open>Navigate to the desired image
  4. Layer Mask Menu Click the Lock to unlock the image
  5. Layer>Duplicate Layer
  6. With New Layer Highlighted go to Image>Adjustment>Hue Saturation>Turn Saturation
  7. Slider to -100>OK
  8. Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal All (NOTE: A new box next to the duplicated Layer)
  9. TIP: “White Reveals; Black Conceals”
  10. Select a Brush or Pen
  11. Use hard brush
    • TIP: Use Ctrl + to zoom in
    • TIP: Use x to change colors
    • TIP: Use [ ] to change brush diameter
    • TIP: Click eyeball to show or not show layer
  12. Filter> blur> radial blur
  13. File>Save As
  14. Eventually, you may be saving your work one or both ways depending on your intentions for use of the file:
    • PSD (Photoshop Document) will only be readable in Adobe Photoshop and is a "soft" file that you intend to further edit or adjust. This file will only be readable by an Adobe Photoshop program.
    • JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a "hard" file that you no longer intend to edit but can use with other programs or applications (i.e. Microsoft Office,web uploads, prints, etc.)


SUBMITTED WORK:

As instructed you may be required to print the work and/or submit it electronically:

  1. Print the work in room 408
  2. Save the document to the Network Drive
    • Open two windows of Windows Explorer
    • Snap them to the sides of the monitor
    • In one, navigate to your S: Drive
    • In the other, navigate to \\blsd-fs02
    • Drag the file from your S: Drive to the network drive


LATE WORK/MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENT:

If you are absent from school or do not complete the assignment on time, you must print your

work to the printer labeled PROD LAB 408. (NOTE: A point deduction may be enforced for late

work not due to an excused absence.)



FURTHER RESEARCH AND STUDY:

What other images would benefit by voiding the color? What value is there in this process?


YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND SUPPORT FILES: