01 - Colorize

Introduction:

• Choose a photo to desaturate (or turn black and white) then using the brush tool in Photoshop, recolour it. Do this to familiarize yourself with layers and different colouring modes.

Reflection:

I really enjoyed this assignment mainly because of how artistic it was. Being an artist, it's always fun to try new mediums when it comes to colouring and such so doing a recolour in Photoshop was a new experience for me. I quite like the idea of being able to take a mundane photo and turning that same object into a new and interesting photo simply by changing its seemingly normal colours. There are so many colour combinations that you can come up with so there's pretty much endless possibilities and it's fun to see what combinations you can come up with each time. For the first photo, it took me a while to colour because I used multiple shades of the same hue for each flower and did a sort of gradient with the darker shade on the lower petals of the succulent and the lighter shades as it got closer to the center. I realized after finishing that it didn't make much of an impact because the shadows on the lower petals from the original black and white photo made it look like I had just taken one colour and gone over the whole flower but in reality its multiple colours on each flower. That is something I wish I could change. The second photo also took so time because I coloured the needles on the cactus and making sure I didn't colour the cactus and only the needle was very tedious.