Playing With PhotoShop

To learn a little bit more about PhotoShop, I took a picture of me and tried different ways to edit it. For this I used the adjustment tools that PhotoShop allows you to use on photos. The desired effect was to make the entire picture black and white, except for the piano, which I thought would look cool especially since the piano reflected the wall behind it.
The initial picture looked like this:

 

 

 

The tools I used to edit this photo were the adjustment options PhotoShop allows you to use on images, as well as the selection tools, including the Magic Wand. The rectangular section tool allows you to select a rectangular section of the image. The Magic Wand selection tool conforms to areas of the image and allows for a more customized selection. I simply selected the areas of the photo that I wanted to change to black and white and then pressed the keys "Alt+Ctl+Shift+B". After all of the desired areas were changed to black and white, I decided to play around with the brightness and contrast of the image to further accentuate the piano. To do this I had to go to the Adjustment menu and click on the Brightness and Contrast tab. This allowed me to adjust the levels until I was satisfied with the final product (shown below).