This week in Kim Manley Ort's, Adventures in Seeing class the topic is simplify and one of her suggestions is to take a picture and convert it from color to black & white. In some ways it was an easy task because I used photos that were already in my iPhoto library, but I have trouble with simple. I enjoy B&W photos and I like seeing the changes that appear when a color photo is converted to B&W but I discovered that it is not just a push of a button for the photo to be at its best. I discovered that I needed to change light and contrast from what they were in the color photo and even crop a little bit. Well, not too demanding but while I was in PS Elements I discovered that I could make collages. I tried a patchwork design and it was real easy to get it set up. I saved it to my desktop but when I dragged it into iPhoto I got nothing but the template with no photos. I played with it until I finally got it to transfer. I complicated it by inadvertently using layers, something I have not used since Elements 3. So, the short of it is that I complicated simplify but I learned something new.
Last Spring (2012) I was visiting my friend in Maryland. I love her yard because it is very natural. I took several pictures of this crocus and used it as an entry for Kim Manley Ort's Photo By Design 2 class. I followed suggestions on how to make it look better and this is the version that I liked. This week in her class I chose it as a picture to convert to Black & White.
This is the enhanced conversion made in iPhoto.
This version is the iPhoto version enhanced in Photoshop Elements 10 using the Cut-out Filter.
I keep trying but this is the biggest that I can make this photo. In order to simplify my day I am going to leave it just as it is and try working on it another day.
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