Color Splashing

Color splashing is an editing technique used to add a splash of color to a black and white photograph. This technique is best suited for when you want to make a photograph black and white, but you also want to show off a key subject in the photograph. For these photographs, I used the Picmonkey photo editor. To get the color splash effect, there are two “effects” you can choose from – the focal b&w (harder) or the holga effect (easier). With the focal b&w, it is harder because you have to choose one set spot to focus on and you can’t move the effect that well. With holga, it will turn the photograph b&w, then you can edit that to your liking – and then you can use the paintbrush from the box that pops up to add color back to the areas of your choosing. Using the holga effect is definitely my preferred method.

Here are my top 2 tips for doing a color splash photograph –

1)      Choose a photograph with a subject(s) that you can focus easily on when you are first starting out. Take my example with the lemons, for example. It was really easy to focus on the lemons because they were basically one uniform shape.

2)      Try to keep it as clean as possible! You don’t accidentally want other colors in the photograph showing if they weren’t intended to be visible.