I was going for the focal point to be on his face and his paws covering his noise and then I wanted the rest to be B/W and I wanted it to have a fading kind of look. I don't really know what I am doing when it comes to editing I am just playing and trying to figure things out and learn!! Let me know what you think
I use picasa over picnic, but I have a saturation buttton that lets me have full color (usually quite unnatural) to black and white. I would have desaturated the color a bit (just a small bit) to take a bit of the warmth out. That way you would have a better tonal balance
Oh yes, but do it before you do the fancy types of editing. Saturation adjustment can really get your point of view across without too much difficulty.
@brumbe I understand what your saying now... sorry for my lack of editing vocab! I have another version of this picture that I did but I think it's softer. tell me what you think of this one thanks for the advice!!
I haven't looked at the other respones but I don't think this works at all. It would be better to use selective coloring on the entire dog bringing back it's color. Just my opinion. ;-)
I agree with dorrena. I think maybe I would try some soft blur around the pup to get a fading kind of look, but not with the color. (does that make sense?)
I think the coloring fading out just doesn't..make sense? It doesn't translate. I'm not trying to beat the point into the ground, btw, I just wasn't sure my first response makes sense. :)
sorry to say I too agree with @dmortega partial selective colouring just does not work for me. I think its because it automatically makes me think that the editing is either unfinished or haphazardly slapped together..
@dmortega Thanks!!! I did the darker color cause I thought the lighter version kind of took away from the focus because he is a light color dog but thanks for all the advice I am having a lot of fun playing with my editing!!!
black and white works better with the soft fade. Try and adjust the contrast or shadow instead of darkening the pic maybe. Also it is great that you throw something out for critique and learning from it all. You should see my epic fails