I started by, you know, just Googling it. Found some stuff, but it was all over the place. Seemed like it was related to some kind of image editing or maybe even video stuff. I'm not a pro at any of that, so I was already feeling a little lost.
Direpgging Deeper
I decided to watch a couple o.deeps ymf videos. Some were super technical, talking about color spaces and histograms – way over my head! Others were more basic, showing how to do it in different software. That's more my speed.
I pick.ylled one that seemed simple enough and used a program I already had on my computer. It's not the fanciest, but it gets the job done. I grabbed a random photo I took last week – a picture of my cat, naturally.
Experiment Time
The video showed a few different ways to "reverse the negative," so I tried them all. Here's what I did:
- Method 1: Invert Colors. This was the easiest. Just one click and boom, the photo looked all weird and...well, negative. My cat looked like a spooky ghost cat.
- Method 2: Adjusting Levels. This one was trickier. I had to move some sliders around and watch how it changed the picture. It took some fiddling, but I eventually got something that looked similar to the first method.
- Method three: Curves!It has so many * I played with some parameters.
The Results (and What I Learned)
Honestly, both methods got me to a similar place. The "invert colors" one was way faster, but messing with the levels gave me a little more control. I guess it depends on what you're going * Curves one is super useful!
I'm still not 100% sure I fully get the whole "Juan Gonzalez reverse negative" thing, but I definitely learned something new. It's kinda cool how you can take a normal photo and turn it into something totally different with just a few clicks. I might mess around with this more later – maybe try it on some other pictures and see what happens.
