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Analogous

Complementary
                 

   I created these images using the polygonal lasso tool and masking on Photoshop. The basic idea of the project was to turn a black and white image of yourself into a colorized version. The three color themes I chose are Analogous, Complementary, and Square. The technique that made these images possible was selecting different parts of the b&w image using the lasso tool and creating a new layer with a layer mask. After creating the layer mask you can create a new layer and color the area using the colors from your color palette. 

    I chose the warm-toned analogous color palette because my original photo was mostly warm-toned. Therefore, I wanted to see if I could incorporate that into the image but make it more stylistic. I then decided I wanted more contrast for my next one so I chose a complementary color palette. The pink and green really stood out from each other and made my image pop. The last palette was made using square colors. I had more varied colors to work with in this palette so it gave interest and variety to my image. The last thing I did was add my tag using a color that contrasted against the background color. 

    The hardest part of this project was covering all the parts of my image with the lasso tool, but after some trial and error, I got most of my image covered in color. This was a very interesting and fun project and I'm glad I got introduced to the mask tool in this way. 


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