Color

Removing Color

Sometimes a photo is strengthened by removing the color, however, the role of composition becomes even more critical. You must be sure that you intent doesn't depend on color information.

Removing color is often as simple as using image editing software and filtering out the color.

Exercise: take some of your photos and look at them in terms of whether they are stronger with or without color

Adding Color to Black and White

With your image editing software, you can extensively manipulate the image Including the converting of black and white images to color. This is achieved by carefully drawing around shapes in he photograph and adding specific colors.

For this exercise you would need a sophisticated program such as Photoshop.