1. By Brae Anderson and Ciara Lewis
Solarization
By Brae Anderson and Ciara Lewis

2. What is Solarization
Solarization is an artistic way to change an image to look like a negative.

3. Materials
Photoshop
Camera
An image you created

4. How to solarize an image
Take a photograph that has even contrast between light and dark
Upload your image to a computer
Open the image in Photoshop
Duplicate the layer by right-clicking on the background layer and choosing duplicate layer
Turn your photo into a black & white image by going to image/adjustments/black & white
Invert the image to a negative by going to image/adjustments/invert

5. More steps Select the history brush from the tool bar on the left.
Click on the mode option on the tool bar above the image.
Select difference as your blend mode.

6. Last steps
Merge the 2 layers by holding the ctrl key while clicking on each of the background layers and right click on one of the layers to get the drop down menu.
Choose merge layers.
Select the filter tab from the tool bar at the top of the screen and choose stylize/solarize.

7. Tips
Make sure your picture has good contrast.

8. examples By Dustin Phillips from Flickr.com
By John H. Siskin from Betterphoto.com

9. Our own examples

10. Sources Student tutorial by Martin Guerrero.
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