Photography Phriday
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Hi, Kate (kateypie) here. I thought I would talk about black and white photos today. I’m quite a big fan of black and white photos! Sometimes you can have a great photo, or a photo you just love, and turning it black and white just adds something extra to the photo. It’s fun to scrap with black and white because you can match the photos to more kits and pages. I’ll show you what I mean.
This photo I love:
But in black and white, I think it’s really gorgeous!
Same with these ones – the background is pretty ugly in colour:
But in black and white, it’s much more useable:
And these two layouts are a couple of my favourites. Both use black and white photos, purely because I like the photos but the colours in them were nearly impossible to use on a scrapping page. On the first layout, they are black and white photos with a little adjusting so they match the tone of the page more.
I use iPhoto to store my photos and scrapping supplies and there is a REALLY simple option for turning your photos black and white, or sepia, or whatever you like really, but it’s also really simple to do in photoshop.
Here is a great tutorial by Leslie that she posted back in September. Check it out! Changing your photos to black and white can sometimes save a page!
