![]() After Freda puts Gran in a jar (with consent!) she finally begins to see that it may be better to enjoy some things in the moment. If blueberries can be kept for later enjoyment in jars, Freda wonders, what else can be saved? Freda starts small (with a warm cookie) and soon graduates to bigger things (her friend Jack, who’s moving to Arizona) and on to items significantly larger than that (the moon) and even the nonphysical (music). There and on the journey home, Freda stuffs herself silly with blueberries but wails, “I can’t do it! I can’t eat them all!” Gran tells her not to worry because they’ll make blueberry jam-a favorite of Freda’s deceased grandpa-so they can enjoy blueberries, even in the winter. It’s summer, and Freda and her gran, who are both Black, are out picking blueberries. (This book was reviewed digitally.)Ī gentle, reassuring reminder that love lives on long after death.Ī young girl learns that she can store all sorts of things in jars-but should she? Matching the tone of the artwork, Sirdeshpande’s words evoke a quiet, tender feeling. Though Dadaji’s death isn’t explicitly described in the text (the boy asks his grandfather never to leave him a page turn reveals that “…one day, he did”), an image of Dadaji bent and frail offers a poignant explanation. Illustrations are in soft focus, almost like a flashback in a film, and Mhasane’s use of color, from spring-colored pastels to darker, gloomy grays, offers a key to the boy’s emotions as he deals with loss and finds healing. This story of familial love and the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren wraps readers in a tight hug. ![]() As the children look at Dadaji’s paintings, they’re inspired-and the boy finally finds solace. Months go by, and a young girl comes knocking, asking the boy to teach her to paint (“like your dadaji taught my mummy”), spilling color back into his life. Dadaji dies, leaving the boy his best paintbrush, but the boy puts it aside-it hurts too much to even look at it. Learn how to use it, and you just may find yourself rarely launching a more complex image editing app.A boy in a village in India loves to paint, just like Dadaji, his grandfather and constant companion. From image editing and color adjustments like this, to adding cartoony captions or text to images, making transparencies, or performing batch resizing or even batch file type conversions, Preview is a gem of Mac OS X’s default app collection. Preview app may be under appreciated, but it is actually a very fast and powerful image editor with some advanced features that are just barely behind the surface. Give it a try yourself, and explore the results of tweaking the various adjustment sliders, you can make some pretty significant changes to images if you’re looking for a more dramatic look. Those are some pretty great results for just a few seconds in the often overlooked Preview app that is bundled directly into MacOS and Mac OS X. Here’s a brief video showing a color image being turned into black and white with some adjustments made to improve the appearance of the resulting picture, from start to finish takes about 20 seconds:įor some visual comparison, here is the original color picture used in this walkthrough (the base image is one of the wallpapers from OS X Mavericks collection):Īnd here is the resulting black and white image with a few minor modifications to levels and other color settings: Though it’s a multistep process, once you get the hang of things the black and white conversion process can be done extremely quickly within Preview app. This is the setting that matters most for the conversion, with the other adjustments used to refine the appearance further. If you just want to move quickly, slide “Saturation” all the way to the left and the picture will be stripped of all color and turned black and white. ![]() When satisfied with the results, save as usual.Optionally, adjust Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, and Levels to improve the look of the black and white image.Slide “Saturation” all the way to the left to remove all color from the image and turn it into black and white.Pull down the “Tools” menu and choose “Adjust Color” to bring up the adjustment tool panel.Open the copy of the color image you want to convert to black and white into Preview app (should be the default image viewer for Mac OS X, if not it’s always in /Applications/ or you can make a quick change to set it as the default again).Make a copy of the color photo you wish to edit, this is not necessary but it’s a good idea because of the auto-save feature in Mac OS X.How to Convert a Picture into Black and White on Mac using Preview ![]()
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