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Colour Pops in 5 Easy Steps
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Colour Popping
is a great effect that is surprisingly easy to do.If you haven’t already come across this effect take a look at Picture 1, a shot I took of a skater at last year’s Phoenix Festival in Tullamore.
The technique used to create this effect involves the use of some photo editing software, but before you get disheartened at this point this is not a technique that requires the latest and greatest version of the wonderfully expensive Photoshop. It can also be achieved in Photoshop’s cheaper cousin, Photoshop Elements and also in some free-to-download photo manipulation programs such as Gimp. (Click here for more info on Gimp image editor)
There are a few ways of creating this effect,