Picture colors when scrapbooking?

[maslex]

How do you decide when to print black/white or sepia or colored pictures when you scrapbook. I've been looking through a few of my scrapbooking idea books and the layouts that I like the most have either black/white or sepia photos. Truthfully, I never even think of printing my pics anything other than color.

 

[scrapgirl3]

I always love the way the examples in the scrapbooking magazines look in black and white or sepia, but I never think to print my pics that way unless I am scraplifting a layout, and then I'll do it especially for that layout. I think color and black and white can both look really nice, depending on how you scrap them.

 

[wdwmickey]

I'm considering making my next WDW album black & white on black pages with only red, yellow, & white paper. I think it might be a cool change from the other 4 color albums.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

the way I look at it is if I would lose important details if the photo was in B&W. Or would something be enhanced by B&W and not lost in the color. Typically I am not one for photoshopped images but a little color adjustment is fine. (just my personal preference)

For example DS13's halloween photo taken at Mystic Seaport. Looks great in color but with a little aged effect and some blurred edges, it really enhances the theme of the photo. BTW I will take these pics down after a while.

original (gate seems to pop)

b&W (DS pops)

tweaked (what was printed)

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Wow!

That looks so awesome and spooky Buffy.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

thanks, He got tons of compliments on the costume and won the most original at the dance the night before.

 

[New England Eeyore]

LOVE that, Buffy!!!

 

[calanniebu]

Okay so how the heck did you do that?

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

iPhoto baby, iPhoto.

Hang on let me see what I selected.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Antiqued 3 times

boost color 4 times

edge blur 5 times

 

[maslex]

I'm considering making my next WDW album black & white on black pages with only red, yellow, & white paper. I think it might be a cool change from the other 4 color albums.

Oh now this is a great idea!!! Like you, I have a few Disney album's and they're all in color. But since Disney pics usually have a million different colors in them, I think printing them all in B/W and using a particular color scheme to adhere them on would be an awesome change. Thanks for the idea!!

 

[MazdaUK]

Fantastic photos! I did some in B&W/Sepia for ds10's pics when his school had a "Victorian day" to celebrate their 125th birthday. But I did colour copies as well, and put the colour ones in the "annual" album and the sepia in "his" album - I also did sort of raggedy edges (Snapfish) for some.

 

[JandJ]

iPhoto baby, iPhoto.

I really need to play more with iPhoto. I'm a Photoshop girl (CS4) but it looks like I need to give iPhoto more of my time - that picture looks fantastic!

And to answer the OPs question - I did some B&W of our wedding photos, but I rarely use it on every day pictures. I think I will try more B&W and Sepia tones this year.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Jennifer, you can do a lot more in photoshop but for basic tweaks, white balance, etc iPhoto is pretty user friendly. But I always make sure I duplicate the original before I mess with stuff.

 

[JandJ]

Jennifer, you can do a lot more in photoshop but for basic tweaks, white balance, etc iPhoto is pretty user friendly. But I always make sure I duplicate the original before I mess with stuff.

I will definitely give iPhoto another look I used to use Picasa for red eye and little tweaks but haven't done much in iPhoto - yet! Oh yes, I always, always save a copy of the original photo.