In my spare time, I’ve been trying to teach myself some new tricks. I’ve had Photoshop Elements for the better part of a year or more. I’ve toyed with it, and learned how to do the basic editing of photos. With my new camera, and some of the newer photo editing that’s going on in the world – specifically tone mapped HDR images (examples here) – I’ve been trying to pick up some of the skills to make my photos look awesome.
Today, I hung out on the couch, listened to the football games, and learned a new trick. I figured out through several tutorials, and some trial and error, how to change the colors of parts of a photograph while leaving other parts alone. My first attempt was of a photo taken for some of our company promotion. In the photograph, we are wearing red jackets. I attempted to remove the color from the photo leaving just the color in the jackets. For my first attempt, I think I did a pretty good job.
In fact, I think the black and white color photo looks pretty cool. I’m going to start watching for photo opportunities where I can accent one particular color, and drop the other color in the photo. I showed the new photo to one of my cousins, and he said it looked pretty cool. In fact, I think it looks cool enough that it might be a fun photo to run in some of our advertising or on our website.