How do I create partial black and white photos in Corel 12... New to the program!
WOW that was EASY!! Thanks Jeff. I'm gonna have some fun now!
May I put my 3c of artistic sense in here? Please?
This selective coloring technique is one of the most overused image manipulations ever done, at one time there where so many of this images that people literally got fed up with it. So be careful where you use that image because your audience might be willing to lynch you :) I belong to several critique sites and if someone posts an image with selective coloring they never get a favorable response.
In fairness, is there an image effect that has not been over done? I have seen many effects come and go in and out of vogue over the years. Some disappear only to reemerge years later. Some never come back. Remember Grundge Letters? Drop Shadows? Gradient Transparencies? They were all done-done to death-disappeared and reemerged in more restrained and tasteful usage.
Graphics effects are like movies. If I had listened to the critics, I would have seen a heck of a lot of movies I would have hated and missed a heck of a lot of movies that I loved.
Audience is key. Many people, some of them paying people, will be wowed by a red fire engine on a black and white picture. Some will ask specifically for it. You have to know how to do it if it is what the client wants.
I would be interested in dropping by these critique sites and seeing what is 'in'. Alfred can you send me a link?
~Rikk
HI Rikk,
Sometimes people love to complain. The irony is that when you ask to see THEIR portfolio, they freeze and get very quiet.Ya wanna see frighteningly bad graphics? Sit in my chair for a week and see what comes in from clients... Ha ha...
You want to see some extremely frightening graphics? Look at my older stuff!
Rikk
Jeff,
How right you are! I just delivered a job yesterday that the customer designed in PowerPoint. It was absolutely horrible, but he was very proud of himself. I did not critique his design, I only critiqued his credit card when I took payment for the decals he ordered.
It was my pleasure to print it for him, but it will not find it's way into my book of samples. That's ok though, I like looking at the zeros grow ($$$).
Frank Olivio