One of my visual assignments this week was to add a “splash” of color to a black and white picture. This is something I have always wanted to learn how to do and it only took Ds10-Awesome to motivate me to learn. The first one I did was a forgotten barn that needed a little color love.

I thought it turned out okay. It was hard to navigate around the foliage. This is the original:

After I saw how easy it was to do this, I decided to give it another go. I think this KitchenAid splash turned out better.

I love how it bursts with the red. I guess that is the whole idea huh?
Here is the original shot:

If you want to do this, its very easy. Go get Gimp photo editing software… just google it. Once you have it up and running, open a photo, and duplicate the layer by clicking on layer-> duplicate layer.
Once you have 2 layers up, desaturate the top layer by clicking on colors -> desaturate. Next click on layer and then choose Mask and Add Layer. You will want the mask to be White (full opacity). Now on to the fun stuff… paint over the object you want to be colored with the paintbrush. You will want to paint over the object with black being your foreground color. Voila! Color Splash.
If you have any difficulty, notify me in the comments and I will try to assist you.