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DirtySocks85
01-07-2007, 04:53 AM
Background: I am a student at Kansas State University, and like a lot of college students I have a great deal of pride and school spirit and I like to do little things to have fun with that. This picture was taken by a friend of mine (I'm the one with the purple hair in the picture) at the 2004 K-State vs Oklahoma football game.

Here's the original:
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~jstiles/IM003823.JPG

and here's my edited version:
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~jstiles/Sea%20of%20Purple.jpg

And here's what I did:
1. I desaturated the entire image.
2. I went over everything purple with the history brush (using a side by side comparison as to not miss anything)
3. I then adjusted the hue and the contrast a bit to make the purple look more purple (it was looking a little blue), and to make the black and white get a little higher definition.
4. As a last minute adjustment I history brushed Kristin and I's eyes (mine are blue and hers are blue-green by nature), and then isolated out that selection and adjusted the hue settings to make them seem purple as well.

Anyways, I hope you all like it.

(and my apologies if the pictures show up huge, I didn't see a way to resize without resizing and uploading smaller copies)

wulf
06-08-2007, 12:55 PM
Let me guess - purple is the official colour of KSU? It would be interesting to see a shot of your crowd and some of the Oklahoma folk, using the same technique to pick out the purple on your guys and whatever their colour is on their supporters.

Wulf