{"id":1618,"date":"2017-03-04T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2017-07-23T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T13:29:22","slug":"horseshoe-bandana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Horse Shoe Bandana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1617\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Horsehoe-Bandana.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1617\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Horsehoe-Bandana-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Horsehoe Bandana\" width=\"600\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Horsehoe-Bandana-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Horsehoe-Bandana-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Horsehoe-Bandana-768x1062.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Horsehoe-Bandana.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horse\u00a0Shoe Bandana (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is a wall hanging at my friends house in Montana. \u00a0Being Montana, the horse shoe motif is rampant everywhere you go. \u00a0In the original image the horse shoes are rust colored and hanging on a brown wall. \u00a0That setting accentuates the faded red bandana.<\/p>\n<p>In my image I wanted\u00a0to make the bandana really shine. \u00a0I converted the image to black and white, then used a <a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/photoshop\/using\/masking-layers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">layer mask<\/a> to expose the original bandana colors. \u00a0This gives the viewers eye two images to explore in a single image. \u00a0The eye can explore textures, shapes, and patterns in the horse shoes and wall and then focus on the bandana weaving around the horse shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Using layer masks to eliminate or highlight different parts of an image is a common task in Photoshop. \u00a0I first learned this technique at the\u00a0Washington School of Photography which sadly no longer exists. \u00a0Fortunately, there are many tutorials on how to do this such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devwebpro.com\/using-layer-masks-black-and-white-photo-with-color\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here is a wall hanging at my friends house in Montana. \u00a0Being Montana, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,8],"tags":[414,164,413,412,175],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-photoshop-tips","tag-bandana","tag-black-and-white","tag-horse-shoe","tag-layer-masks","tag-photoshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}