Digital Imaging

Colorizing an Image

 

This project introduces image manipulation and the work of Ansel Adams.

                  

                                          Photo by Ansel Adams                                  Colorized by Lauren, Grade 7

 Text Box: Ansel Adams, born in San Francisco in 1902, was an American landscape photographer. In 1916, at the age of 14, a trip to Yosemite, Californa inspired him to to photograph the majesty of the American wilderness. He took pictures of mountains, deserts, enormous clouds, and towering trees. Adams' first exhibition was in San Francisco in 1939. He was educated at Yale University and started the first college department in photography. Adams adopted Paul Strand's "straight photography" as his medium of expression. In 1932 he formed Group f/64 with Edward Weston and other proponents of straight photography, establishing photography as an art form. Adams was an ardent conservationist and served as director of Sierra Club from 1936 to 1973. He died in 1984.              

 

 

 

1.                  Open Photoshop Elements: New document.  Cut and paste your chosen picture into this document.

2.                  To convert the color mode of the image, choose image>mode>RGB.

3.                  Select layer>new>layer.

4.                  In the new layer dialog box, choose Color from the mode pop-up menu and click OK.

5.                  Select the brush tool.

6.                  In the options bar, select a brush from the brushes pop-up palette and then drag the Size pop-up slider to adjust the brush size.

7.                  To set the brush opacity, drag the opacity pop-up slider to the pop-up bar.

8.                  Choose window>color swatches to display the color swatches palette.

9.                  Select a color from the color swatches palette.

10.              Drag the brush over the area of the photo you want to color.

11.              Repeat steps 7-9 to apply different colors to the photo.