Changing Boring to Colorful with Photoshop

November 18th, 2009

Changing Boring to Colorful with Photoshop

Loved the color of the leaves and focused on it - Now my wallpaper

The fun in photography isn’t always in the capture of the image, but when you can manipulate them to look far more impressive.

As an exercise, I spent a week playing around with a few old photos in Photoshop. The exercise was simple, only using Layer Blending modes. I didn’t use any masking options. I also only made an adjustment to one layer in each of my photos, turning it to black & white. I used a total of 2 to 3 layers and had fun playing around with the layer’s order and blending option.

A simple trail shot on a rainy day

Although the photos have some similarities in the final results, I learned that you cannot use the same Layer Blending options to get the same effect. I was surprised to see which ones were more popular with Flickr users too. I’m a fan of Photoshop over Lightroom, so I’m trying to learn different things with it.

Below are a few more personal photos I played around with. If you want the full resolution to any of these photos, visit my Flickr “Random” set.