Computer Experiment 3

Selective colour:

Open the image in photoshop by clicking 'file', then 'open' and selecting the image. Once the image is open then click on the 'quick selection tool' on the panel on the left hand side of the page, the tool you should select is shown below:

Once you have selected this tool then you must click on the parts of the image you want to remain in colour:

Then go to the tool bar at the top of the page and click 'select', then go to the option 'inverse', this will selected the other areas of the image, as shown below:

After this go to the menu at the bottom right of the page and click 'black and white', this will then turn the area of your image selected black and white, as shown below:

You can change the intensity of the colours with the menu that pops up (shown on the right of the above image), until you're happy with your overall image.

Final image-

This is the final outcome of the edit, overall I like the image as the colouring of the flower is bright, and eye-catching due to the luminos yellow colouring of the flower. This edit changes the meaning of the image, as the idea may be to focus on pollution as the focus within the image is on nature. If I was to create another edit I would possibly have more of the flowers within the image in colour, in order to create more focus on this area of the image, however I believe that by only having one flower in colour is beautiful in a simple manner. Also, I could have placed the viewers focus elsewhere by having other parts of the image in colour, not the flowers; for example I could have focused on the subject in the image, which would have again changed the meaning of the overall photograph.