Colour Popping

Colour Filtering/Colour Popping

Colour popping is where we make a certain colour stand out compared to all the others. This is a technique I learnt in my second lesson. This technique helps for posters when you want to make something or someone stand out in a picture. You don’t want to focus just have them in the picture but you want to make sure the audience focus’ on them more. To do this we used adobe Photoshop elements. We opened up our images on there then we turned the saturation down to -100 first, this then created a new layer of the image which was black and white. We then clicked on our brush tool, then colour correction. Once we had done this we used the colour correction brush over all the areas we wanted to have in black and white. This meant we had to be careful not to go over anything we wanted to be in colour. Once we had gone over everything we wanted to be in black and white, we saved our images. This meant on our final images we had made a certain person or something stand out. This technique is often used to make one colour stay in the image so. (i.e. the Marylebone picture above with only the green left in). It is also used to make a certain thing stand out (i.e. The beware theft image only shows the person stealing in colour which makes that stand out or pop out of the image.)