A Bit of Colour for a Grey World

A couple of colour popped blooms from the garden this morning to brighten up a grey world:





Taken with added flash to help the subject stand out. Subject colour popped and background blurred using the Mac Ap ColorStrokes.

Dwarf Iris

As we slowly head towards warmer weather the Dwarf Iris are putting on a colourful show:



As these are growing in a rather weed covered planter I colour popper them to lessen the distracting background.

A Popped Pitcher

My pitcher plant is really taking off this year.
The new growths are about twice the size of last years.
The kitchen windowsill seems the ideal place for it.



A first use of the Mac app Tweak Color which enabled me to colour pop the plant and blur the background.

Popped Acer

Colour popped and border added

A Splash of Colour

While my miniature narcissus are in full bloom other bulbs seem to be well behind them at the moment:







Photos taken with Nikon S9050.
Colour popped in Compose Lite
Borders in PhotoScape X

Another new Serif Affinity Photo beta was released today. Still developing and improving.

Pop Goes the Photo

 


Following yesterday's download of Color Accent Studio Pro (Mac app) I had a popping session last night, partly to give it a more thorough try out and also to practice with the Huion H610Pro 10 inch graphic tablet I bought a few days ago.

















With a little practice it became fast and easy to zoom the photos, change the size of the brush and alternate between showing coloured sections and erasing any slight mistakes around the edges.  I used to enjoy colour popping on the iPad but finger or stylus would often get in the way of seeing exactly what was being changed. The graphics tablet gave much finer control and was a lot easier to use than the MacBook track pad, good and sensitive as it is.

Any fancy borders in the photos were put in with other programs some time ago.
As always, the title was produced using Art Text 2.

Choose Your Colour

Colour splash with a difference. Using the very versatile PowerCam iOS app it is possible to create the colour splash / pop effect at the time a photo is being taken. There is one choice out of the many available which enables me to touch the screen at a place showing the colour I want and the app then just picks out that colour. It was not easy to see the screen clearly in bright Sunlight.

Three photos taken from the same spot:

Grass:



I must have touched on grey somehow for this one:



Blue sky:



Not really the best of subjects. All were post processed to some extent to increase contrast a bit and lessen the depth of shadows.

A couple taken through the kitchen window this dull Thursday morning.
These have not been retouched, exactly as taken.

Green grass chosen for colour splash / popping:

 

The inverse can also be picked where all colours except the chosen one will appear in the photo. This time the green of the grass was removed:




The process is instant. The result can be seen before the shutter button is pressed. Also it is possible to lock a chosen colour which helps as slight movements of the phone can vary the effect.

What will they think of next?

Pop Goes the Colour

Some time ago Adrian explained how to colour pop on the PC. Today I happened to come across Color Splash, an app for the iPad which does the job so easily I couldn't resist investing the £1.50 or so. In fact it was more trouble finding out how to transfer the results from the iPad to the PC than it was to go a popping.













It took well under an hour to achieve the above results, including the time to download and install the app and searching for help to transfer the results to the PC. No other processing was used and no wildlife was harmed in the process.