Visual Assignment: Common Everyday Object

For this assignment, the objective was to take a picture of a common object and then manipulate it’s colors for a new effect. For my photo, I edited the colors in picnik because I still have yet to get photoshop working on my computer. First off I took a photo of my stove top because I thought the coils would look cool and I put my camera at a different perspective for a new look. In picknik, I first boosted the colors of the original photograph, which emphasized all the gross stains around the stove coils. Next I did a dual tone effect on top and used a peachy pink color and a gray and then faded the colors so they weren’t so bright. For the final effect, I used a heat map on top of the dual tone which brought out the more of detail on and around the coils.

This is a collage I also made in picnik which shows the progression of the effects that I used on the original photo.