A Stunning Reversal?

Hi folks -- I'm actually in an offsite conference right now, but we haven't really started yet, so I thought I'd do a photo shoot entry.

It's been a while since I participated in one of blogger John's Monday Photo Shoots, and I am afraid to say that my participation in this one (Life in Negative) constitutes something of a fraud.

This is because the source photo (from my entry about July Fourth) is a fireworks photo -- here's the negative version:

Since it's a fireworks photo, it's got large areas of really sharp contrasts, plus it's shot with a long shutter, so there are all kinds of strange streaks of light -- that means it's already kind of striking, so reversing isn't really revealing anything new.

On a photo note, even though I have Photoshop, I used the freeware Irfanview program that John mentioned. It's primarily a photo viewer program (it does easy slideshows), it's a quick and easy way to crop and resize photos, and it also does batch conversions. It supports plug-ins and is very functional (though it works fine as a stock download), and of course, it's free.

In order to use it to reverse the colors, just open the picture you want to convert, then from the menu, select Image > Negative -- it will flip the colors of the photo:

You can then save the inverted photo as a new image file and upload to your blog in the usual way.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: Monday Photo Shoot, Irfanview