Steps on how to use Threshold on Adobe Photoshop
- Open your chosen photo of Adobe Photoshop
- Go IMAGE-> ADJUSTMENT -> THRESHOLD
- Slide the curser up and down to get different depths of black and white contrast intensities
- Create a new separate A4 page
- Ctrl + A and drag image into page
- Ctrl+ T to change the shape of the image
My Own Idea with Threshold
After experimenting with several different images, and trying different levels of threshold to help represent the contracts of black and white I chose these four photos as my final pieces. In these four photos I have used fairly high levels of threshold meaning the images are more strongly black compared to white.
For my final four photographs, I wanted to try closely link the textures and theme together to ensure the final piece looked well put together. To complete this idea I used a theme of nature, due the fact all my images were well linked as they included, a flowers and leaves in each photograph. This gave the final image a well grouped together appearance. For the texture of the image I wanted to go with ‘block’ like colour to give the feel that the image has been filled in with white and black pens. To do this the threshold on each image was slightly higher than the middle level on the scale, I did this because as previously mentioned I wanted the piece to be darker using black to reflect that rather than white, so each image contained more black shades than white shades. This made it a lot simpler when I put the four pieces together as they all merged into each other well together. For the presentation of my four images which had now been transformed i wanted to keep it simple, therefore i just placed evenly all four images on an A4 piece of paper and this was my final outcome.
On the other hand I wanted to complexly contrast with my original idea of solid colours and little texture. Therefore I began to experiment using different images and different levels of threshold which soon presented me with many different textures. I yet again put another four different images together but this time tried to portray texture and threshold in a different light and this is what I came up with:
