Monday 23 January 2012

[Week III] Saturation, Second Entry - Oversaturation

Girl (Edited Saturation)
Oversaturation takes a usual imagine and over-brightens the colours. This interesting look isn't used very often in media however. The picture of the girl above, if you look closely, certain details have been over-brightened so much that the colour would be considered wrong. This girl should have brown hair, but there's a blue splodge. But how did it get there? Oversaturation simply brings out the more prominent colours and makes them dominant, with this we get to see the natural colours enhanced, but unlike hue changes, they're still mostly the correct colours.

Corpse Bride (Edited Saturation)
In this image of Corpse Bride, which originally has low saturation, it has been edited to reveal what natural colours the character is wearing. Corpse Bride isn't intended to be colourful, but it's interesting to be able to reveal what was hidden from the creators.

Using this technique we couldn't find the hair colour of Citizen Kane, but we can take old destroyed imagines that have lost most of their colour, and turn the saturation up.

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