 Next, used various color functions in my editing program to darken the shadows and boost the contrast to end up with a near solid black silhouette of the tree against a white background. I then painstakingly used the cloning function to remove everything in the image but the tree itself. This left me with the black & white image shown on the left. Finally, I used my scrapbook program to cut the tree in half by cropping it. I then made a copy of the crop, reversed it and pasted it together with the original crop to give me the ‘inkblot’ look above. |
The basis for this image was a photo (right) taken inside the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness Area off Nipton Road, west of Searchlight, Nevada. To create the image I converted the photo to a Black & White. I then cropped it down to just the huge Joshua Tree in the middle of the photo. 
Next, used various color functions in my editing program to darken the shadows and boost the contrast to end up with a near solid black silhouette of the tree against a white background. I then painstakingly used the cloning function to remove everything in the image but the tree itself. This left me with the black & white image shown on the left. Finally, I used my scrapbook program to cut the tree in half by cropping it. I then made a copy of the crop, reversed it and pasted it together with the original crop to give me the ‘inkblot’ look above. 
