To start off my visual assignments for the week I started out with this on- Splash the Color (also the first of the reccommended assignments listed in the week 5 post):

Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List.
You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software or using mobile apps. The answer lies in the Google .

Splash the Color is a 2 star assignment:

So want to know the story of why I picked this picture?

Ok here it goes: I have this thing in my room that have all the Chinese Zodiac Animals on it.  So what I thought would be cool for this assignment is take a picture of it and then color the Chinese Zodiac animal that represents the year I was born in. And that’s what I did.  I used my iPhone to take and edit the picture.  I first took the picture, and then cropped the picture so only the image of the Chinese Zodiac Animals would appear on it.  Then I used the iPhone app ColorSplash (it’s $0.99 in the app store) that I had on my phone to edit the picture.  With ColorSplash they put the picture in black and white for you and then you can edit the color right in.  It was an easy app to use and it was well worth the $0.99.  I colored in the rooster because that is the animal that represents the year I was born in.