Anybody know a piece of software that will make a picture into a negative.
Negative in Illustrator
Color Negatives
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Launch Adobe Illustrator. Open a project you have already started and skip to to step 3, or create a new document by pressing “Ctrl-N” on the keyboard.
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Click the “File” menu, select “Place” and then navigate to any color image on your computer. Click “OK.”
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Click the “Direct Selection Tool” in the Toolbox and drag it across the objects you want to change to negatives. To select all the objects, press “Ctrl-A” on the keyboard.
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Click the "Edit’ menu, select “Edit Colors” and click “Invert Colors.” A color negative is created from the selected image.
Black and White Negatives
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Click the images or objects you want to transform by dragging the Direct Selection Tool across them.
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Click the “Edit” menu, select “Edit Colors” and click “Convert to Grayscale.” The objects are transformed to black and white.
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Click the “Edit” menu, select “Edit Colors,” then click “Invert Colors.” The objects become black and white negatives.
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Another free option is ImageJ or FIJI. They’re the same program, but FIJI bundles a bunch of plugins and an autoupdater. Both run on Java (just like UGS)
Both are free and open source, as ImageJ was created by the National Institutes of Health as a standard image analysis tool for biosciences.
To create a negative, open the image and then select Edit->Invert. If you want to convert from RGB to grayscale first, select Image->Type->8-bit or 16-bit.
(if you don’t have illustrator or inkscape, covered in answers above ^)
An online photo editor can do all you need without installing anything. pixlr seems to do the trick.
- open pixlr and upload your photo
- go to Adjustment (at the top) and Invert
- File → Save will save it back out to your computer
Here is a gif
You could also add my Mother-in-law in the picture… that pretty much makes any picture a negative…
Just sayin’ … 
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