explanations
The main ideas behind my specialist project, has been from inspiration in my passion of art. I have wanted to look at and understand colour theory behind digital media, and use techniques such as pixelating or dithering to create absrtact pieces of digital art. For me it has been enjoyable as the history and learning part is always important. The next pieces of work i am going to add to my project is created from a process of reducing the colours in my selected photo and also changing the dithering from 0% to 100% comparing the 2 to see what outcomes i get. I also want to look at changing the square pixels in an image to circles to get a pop art style affect picture on a larger scale.
Dithering is a technique used in computer graphics to create the illusion of color depth in images with a limited color palette, here is an example of dithering;
From the first picture, you can clearly see each colour pixel, but as they pixels get smaller you can gradually see the picture coming together, using the illusion of colour depth.
From my next example you can see the difference between 100% dithering in picture and 0% dithering, with 0% giving you colour banding and 100% more detail. Both pictures have been reduced down to 2 colours from the original picture, both producing nice effects.
Can you see and guess which one is which!?
