{"id":10,"date":"2009-04-10T02:31:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:24:50","slug":"instead-of-adding-color-take-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Instead of adding color, take it away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Barry will take an image, remove all color, and then create focus by coloring just an item in the shot:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11\" title=\"colorpop\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/colorpop-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"See how the soccer player pops out of the image\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/colorpop-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/colorpop.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See how the soccer player pops out of the image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was playing with an image my wife took of me three years ago:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12\" title=\"tdhsnow\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tdhsnow-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Me, grinning in the snow\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tdhsnow-239x300.jpg 239w, http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tdhsnow.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me, grinning in the snow<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Which actually provides an almost good close-up:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13\" title=\"grinraw\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grinraw-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"grinraw\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The raw face<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While everything else looks vibrant, the face is too pale.<\/p>\n<p>So I did the opposite of what Barry would do:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14\" title=\"grin2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grin2-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white face\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grin2-174x300.jpg 174w, http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grin2.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A black and white face<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also added some color? Perhaps, but the biggest filtering was to Oilify it:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16\" title=\"grin3\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grin3-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"The face has been run through the oilify filter\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grin3-174x300.jpg 174w, http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grin3.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The face has been run through the oilify filter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And finally, I got started down this path because of this tutorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephotozine.com\/article\/Create-a-statue-effect-using-Gimp-9714\">Create a statue effect using Gimp<\/a> (nsfw). Trying to apply that to a &#8216;clothed&#8217; figure does not seem to work:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18\" title=\"gringhosty\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/gringhosty-300x270.png\" alt=\"Statue effect, can you tell?\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/gringhosty-300x270.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/gringhosty.png 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statue effect, can you tell?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Barry will take an image, remove all color, and then create focus by coloring just an item in the shot: I was playing with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-image-editing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}